My Bloody Valentine (franchise)

default|The original poster for the first film.

My Bloody Valentine is a horror franchise that consist of two slasher films. The original film My Bloody Valentine was often compared to Halloween and Friday the 13th. The film was a moderate commercial success and has since become a cult film. In 2009, a sequel was released called My Bloody Valentine 3D which was a commercial success and received GeneRally mixed to positive reviews.

Films

Film

Director

Writer(s)

Producer(s)

My Bloody Valentine (1980)

George Mihalka

Stephen Miller

Stephen Miller

My Bloody Valentine 3D

Patrick Lussier

Stephen Miller

Jack L. Murray

Overview

In My Bloody Valentine it focused on a decades old folk tale surrounding a deranged [...] [...] those who celebrate Valentine's Day, turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead. There's a big valentine-party planned in the little coal mining town of Valentine Bluffs, Nova Scotia. It is the first Valentine's Day party in 20 years, because then there was an accident in the mine, and the accident happened because the men responsible for the security was at the party. The sole surviving miner, named Harry Warden, later killed them, and told the town never to arrange a Valentine's Day party again. The party begins, and so does the [...]. On Valentine's Day 20 years before, an explosion of methane gas took the lives of a group of coal miners working in the Hanniger Mine near the small Nova Socia town of Valentine Bluffs. The accident occurred because supervisors left their posts to attend the annual Valentine's Day dance. A year afterward, Harry Warden - the only survivor of the accident - retaliated by [...] The Two supervisors, and leaving a terrifying warning never to hold another Valentine's Day dance. Now, a group of young adults decides to hold another dance, despite warnings. When a blood-soaked heart arrives at the police station, accompanied by an ominous message, the dance is canceled. But a Valentine party is held in its place... at the coal mine, and it isn't long before the town's young people begin dying violently. It appears Harry Warden has returned to punish those who did not heed his warning. While in My Bloody Valentine 3D it revolved around Tom, who returns to his hometown on the tenth anniversary of the Valentine's night massacre that claimed the lives of 22 people. Instead of a homecoming, however, Tom finds himself suspected of committing the murders, and it seems like his old flame is the only one will believes he's innocent. In the mining town of Harmony, a drilling accident is caused by the son of the owner, Tom Hanniger. The mine collapses, burying six miners alive. The rescue team finds only Harry Warden alive, but in coma, and the other miners murdered by his pickax, and they conclude that Harry killed them to save oxygen for himself. On Valentine's Day, Harry awakes from his coma in the local hospital, and he kills twenty-two people, including a group of teenagers that are partying in the mine. Harry is killed by the deputy, but the only survivors are Tom Hanniger, his girlfriend Sarah, their friend Axel Palmer and his girlfriend Irene. Ten years later, Tom returns to Harmony after the death of his father. Tom has decided to sell the Hanniger Mine, and finds that Sarah has married Axel, who is now the local SHERIFF, and they have a son named Noah. On Valentine's Day, Harry Warden also returns, seeking revenge against those that had escaped his pickax in the past, and Tom is accused by Axel and other locals, who in turn makes accusations against Axel.

Box office

Film

Release date (US)

Budget

Box office revenue

United States

Foreign

Worldwide

1. My Bloody Valentine

February 11, 1981

$2,300,000

$5,672,031

2. My Bloody Valentine 3D

January 16, 2009

$14,000,000

$51,545,952

$49,188,766

Total

$19,727,031

$57,217,983

$49,188,766