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[[File:imOnIn9XFgaaahZKYKYwtbuijQ_2332My Bloody Valentine DVD.jpg|frame|Love, [[Team Fortress 2|Pyro]].]]
 
 
{{quote|''"Once upon a time''
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''For the legend they say''
''On a Valentine's Day''
''Is a curse that'll live on and on"''|''The Ballad of Harry Warden''}}
|''The Ballad of Harry Warden''}}
 
A [[The Eighties|1981]] holiday-themed Canadian [[Slasher Movie]] directed by George Mihalka.
 
Twenty years ago, in the sleepy mining town of Valentine Bluffs, a methane gas explosion at Hanniger Coal Mine trapped five miners in a shaft when the foremen who were supposed to be supervising left to go to a Valentine's Day party (similiar to the absentee camp counsellors in ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]]''). Six weeks later, the sole survivor of the accident, Harry Warden, was rescued; he survived by eating his dead coworkers and ultimately had gone mad. After a year in a mental institution, he escaped on Valentine's Day, killing and cutting out the heart of the guilty foremen, leaving a warning that the same would happen if the town ever again held a Valentine's Day celebration. With this nothing but a distant memory and Harry supposedly back in the institution, the town is now throwing another party. Murders of the same manner as before start cropping up, and the town sheriff orders the party shut down. But the requisite bunch of none-too-bright teenagers ain't happy about this and elope to host the party in secret up at the mine instead. [[Gorn|Big mistake...]]
 
Known for having nine minutes constituting the gorier killings lopped off of it to comply with the MPAA. In 2009, the movie had a remake in 3D, named aptly: ''[[My Bloody Valentine (2009 film)|My Bloody Valentine 3D]]''; which was something of a [[So Bad It's Good]] [[Affectionate Parody]]. The remake coincided with a DVD release of the original movie, which had the cut footage reincluded.
 
[[Quentin Tarantino]] said that this is his favorite [[Slasher Movie]].
 
Not to be confused with [[My Bloody Valentine (band)|the somewhat more famous band]], which took its name from this film and don't have near as many instances of people getting brutally murdered.
 
=== The original film provides examples of the following tropes: ===
 
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* [[Abandoned Area]]: A significant portion of the mine.
* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: {{spoiler|The knife Axel uses to cut his own crushed arm off}}.
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* [[The Eighties]]
* [[Everyone Is a Suspect]]
* [[Executive Meddling]]: Paramount infamously refused to allow the film's director to attempt to reassemble the film's original cut when the film was first released upon DVD, nor did they allow any sort of supplementary material to be filmed with the director or the actors involved in the film (as at the time, Paramount didn't think their slasher back catalog worthy of DVD extras or anything other than a bare boned release).
* [[Eye Scream]]: Happy's death.
* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: While getting beer out of a fridge, John fails to notice the killer stuffed Dave's body into it.
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* [[Pun-Based Title]]: ''My Funny Valentine''.
* [[Reaction Shot]]
* [[Re CutRecut]]: The assassination of John Lennon led to a backlash against violence in the media, resulting in the film being trimmed considerably. Thankfully, a decent amount of footage survived, and was reinstated in the 2009 Special Edition.
* [[Red Herring]]: {{spoiler|Harry Warden died five years ago}}.
* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Axel}} is the killer.
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* [[Villain Song]]: ''The Ballad of Harry Warden'', which plays over the credits.
* [[Vomiting Cop]]: Close. Upon finding Mabel's body, Chief Newby starts gagging a lot.
 
=== The remake provides examples of the following tropes: ===
 
* [[3D Movie|3-D Movie]]
* [[Abandoned Area]]: Tunnel Number 5, and the old Palmer house.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: A deleted scene reveals the shovel victim ("Teen Straggler") is named Brandy.
* [[Alone with the Psycho]]: Tom, for a little bit at the beginning.
* [[Arrow Cam]]: {{spoiler|When Sarah shoots Tom in the side}}.
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Frank.
* [[Axe Before Entering]]: The killer takes the supermarket's "Knock Before Entering" sign to its logical extreme.
* [[Bald of Evil]]: Harry.
* [[Bar Brawl]]: The patrons don't take too kindly to Tom showing up at the local bar.
* [[The Bartender]]: Sam.
* [[Black Best Friend]]: Deputy Martin.
* [[Black Bra and Panties]]: Sarah is at least wearing the former in the prologue.
* [[Black Eyes of Evil]]: Like the original, the gas mask appears to have black holes for eyes.
* [[Blood Spattered Innocents]]: After Harry gets shot, some of his blood splashes onto Tom's face.
* [[Bloody Handprint]]: In the hospital after the massacre, and on the Palmers' dryer after Rosa's death.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: {{spoiler|Right before the credits, Tom glares directly at the camera}}.
* [[Broken Heel]]: Axel trips while running from Harry in the opening.
* [[Broomstick Quarterstaff]]: Megan tries fighting the killer off with a mop.
* [[Calling Card]]: The cut out hearts placed in candy boxes.
* [[Cast as a Mask]]: Chris Carnel played both Harry and {{spoiler|Tom}} in miner gear.
* [[Chase Scene]]
* [[Conspicuous CG]]: In some of the deaths, most noticeably Jim's.
* [[Convenient Coma]]: Harry fell into one after being rescued from the mine.
* [[Cool Mask]]
* [[Couldn't Find a Pen]]: The hearts drawn in blood and "BE MINE 4 EVER".
* [[Creator Cameo]]: Writer Todd Farmer plays Frank the Trucker.
* [[Curiosity Killed the Cast]]: Selene is killed looking for her dog.
* [[Curtain Camouflage]]: Done by Harry right at the beginning.
* [[Dangerous Windows]]: The killer attacks Sarah through one she had planned on using to escape the store through.
* [[Daylight Horror]]: The end.
* [[Death by Mocking]]: Jason.
* [[Death by Sex]]: Irene and Frank.
* [[Don't Go in The Woods]]
* [[Dual Wield]]: Briefly done by Harry.
* [[Edible Bludgeon]]
* [[Everyone Is a Suspect]]
* [[Exact Words]]: When Ben tells Tom to make peace with his father if he wants to, he shows him an urn containing his father's ashes.
* [[Eye Open]]: Harry coming out of his coma.
* [[Eye Scream]]: Jason, Ben and a rescue worker's deaths.
* [[Famous Last Words]]: "You're dead, motherfucker!" and "Shit!"
* [[Fight Scene]]: Lots, but props to Red for putting up a pretty good one.
* [[Final Girl]]: Sarah.
* [[Fingore]]: When Red takes a swing at Tom in the bar, he misses and ends up punching a mirror.
* [[Flipping the Bird]]: Given to Irene by Frank.
* [[Flash Back]]: While in a coma, Harry dreams about the night he became trapped in the mine.
* [[Frame-Up]]: {{spoiler|Tom attempts to do it to Axel}}.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: {{spoiler|Tom was driven insane by nearly being killed by Harry}}.
* [[Gorn]]
* [[Gross Up Close-Up]]
* [[Half the Man He Used To Be]]: One of the hospital victims... don't ask how Harry managed that.
* [[Hallucinations]]: Tom suffers from auditory ones, {{spoiler|which later escalate to visual ones}}.
* [[Home Porn Movie]]: Frank makes them... without his partners' knowledge.
* [[Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday]]: Unlike the original, it's fairly incidental to the plot, though a deleted scene does reveal Harry was trapped while a Valentine's Day dance was being held.
* [[Hot Mom]]: Sarah.
* [[Hysterical Woman]]: Megan.
* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: Through the head.
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: The killer is attacked with a mop, a frying pan, a lamp base, a battery pack and ''a piece of frozen meat''.
* [[Info Dump]]: The 3D newspapers in the opening.
* [[It's All My Fault]]: Tom's father in a deleted scene.
* [[Jack the Ripoff]]: {{spoiler|Tom}}.
* [[Jaw Breaker]]: Jim's death.
* [[Jerkass]]: Axel. Dear sweet lord, Axel.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Frank secretly videotaped himself and Irene, calls her a whore, flips her off, then says he's gotten tired of her. He also has a wedding ring on, so we can add adultery to the list.
* [[The Killer in Me]]: {{spoiler|Tom}}.
* [[Kill Us Both]]: Suggested by Axel when Sarah has him and Tom at gunpoint.
* [[Little People Are Surreal]]: The reason they decided to have the Thunderbird clerk be a little person, actually saying they though it gave the sequence "a ''[[Twin Peaks]]'' vibe".
* [[Menacing Stroll]]: Mostly, though the killer does run a few times.
* [[Mirrored Confrontation Shot]]: Done when Tom first comes face to face with the killer.
* [[The Mistress]]: Megan.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Irene, played by Betsy [[La Rue]], does not wear one stitch of clothing the entire time she is onscreen (and it's a long scene).
* [[Mythology Gag]]
* [[Necro Cam]]: {{spoiler|Used when Tom is revealed to be the killer}}.
* [[Never Found the Body]]: Harry.
* [[The Nineties]]: The prologue.
* [["No. Just... No" Reaction]]: In the commentary, director Patrick Lussier mentions this was essentially his reaction to a test screener ask if it was [[Traumatic C-Section|Megan's unborn baby]], not her heart, that the killer cut out.
* [[No-Tell Motel]]: The Thunderbird Motel.
* {{spoiler|[[Not His Sled]]}}: {{spoiler|Axel's a [[Red Herring]] this time.}}
* [[The Not-Secret]]: Axel and Megan's relationship.
* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: Justified, {{spoiler|Tom is the killer, and any scene with him and the killer together is just him hallucinating}}.
* [[Off with His Head]]: Brandy, sorta.
* [[One Bullet Left]]: "Don't miss".
* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: Axel getting stabbed.
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: Red's real name (William Kirkpatrick) can be seen ''really'' briefly on an evidence board.
* [[Peek-a-Boo Corpse]]: Sarah comes across several while running from Harry in the mine.
* [[Plot Hole]]: {{spoiler|It's never revealed how Tom knew where Harry's body was, and it's very doubtful his father would've told him, considering how estranged they were}}.
* [[Psycho Smirk]]: {{spoiler|Done by Tom after [[The Reveal]]}}.
* [[Reaction Shot]]
* [[Red Herring]]: {{spoiler|Harry, Axel, and a few other minor characters}}.
* [[The Remake]]
* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Tom is insane and the killer}}.
* [[Right Through the Wall]]: Irene and Frank, much to Tom's annoyance.
* [[Say My Name]]: Tom screaming for Sarah after the car crash.
* [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You]]
* [[Sequel Hook]]: {{spoiler|Tom survives being shot and the mine explosion, kills a rescuer, and escapes in his uniform}}.
* [[Scream Discretion Shot]]: The death of the first hospital nurse.
* [[The Sheriff]]: Axel, successor to the retired Jim Burke.
* [[Shovel Strike]]: Sarah attacks Harry with one in the prologue. He takes it from her and proceeds to behead Brandy at the jawline with it. Near the end, Axel fights {{spoiler|Tom}} with one.
* [[Smoking Hot Sex]]: Planned by Irene, but the moment is ruined by Frank's assholishness.
* [[The Stinger]]: The killer appears and takes a swing at the camera with his pickaxe.
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: The beginning and end.
* [[Super Window Jump]]: How Sarah escapes the old Palmer house.
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: Even though Red is obviously dead, the killer continues hacking away at him.
* [[Those Two Guys]]: Jason and Michael.
* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: Unless it gets embedded in a windshield.
* [[Title In]]: Ten Years Later.
* [[Token Minority]]: Deputy Martin and Rosa.
* [[Turn of the Millennium]]
* [[Vader Breath]]
* [[Vigilante Execution]]: {{spoiler|Harry's death}}.
* [[Weapon of Choice]]: A pickaxe, moreso than the original.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: When Sarah makes it clear that she knew Axel was cheating with Megan, Deputy Martin gives him the dirtiest look imaginable.
* [[Wild Teen Party]]: The opening.
* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: A reporter mentions that some of Harry's victims were children.
 
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[[Category:Slasher Movie]]
[[Category:Films of the 1980s]]
[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]
[[Category:My Bloody Valentine]]
[[Category:Film]]
[[Category:Canadian Films]]
[[Category:Cult Classic]]
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