My Bloody Valentine 3-D
Taken from my rant in the
My Bloody Valentine thread...
WOW, what a ridiculous amount of fanboy fun!
Quite frankly -
Best $24 I spent in the theater in a very very long time.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Shady
I can't believe you say gore is what movies need to get back too. Gore is what horror movies are about? Dude are you serious? All the horror movies lately are all gore and no plot or originality. This is what horror has come to; gore, nudity, and cheap CGI scares.
What amazes me is how people say they liked the script and acting. The acting is some of the worst acting I've ever seen. And I loved how every time the killer is chasing someone they fall down, literally every time. The script was your basic slasher script, nothing original. Throughout the whole movie it's just scenes of oh...heres the killer chasing some dumbass who trips over everything, screaming while the killer is in her face and doesn't even attempt to get away. Thats all the movie is, a bunch of random death scenes. Completely unoriginal movie.
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My Bloody Valentine is a complete and utter homage to the 80s slasher film. The POINT of the gore is to emphasize and sensationalize an entire DECADE of horror that was obsessed with sex, blood, knives, and penetration. Each kill shot was composed BRILLIANTLY and giving nod to everything from
Friday the 13th to Fulci's
Zombie II.
Why is the script unoriginal and derivative?
WHY do you have your pitiful fleeing victims repeatedly falling over themselves?! BECAUSE IT'S A PURPOSEFUL DERIVATION!
My Bloody Valentine is
spoofing the horror that came before, and EVEN spoofing splatter geniuses that came after! (I mean, part of the POINT of the splatterpunk genre is trying to one-up what came before you... Well, what better way to outdo your predecessors
BUT DO IT IN 3D!!!!) Gratuitous? Superfluous? Unnecessary? ABSOLUTELY!!!!!
And did my boyfriend and I love it??? - ABSOLUTELY!!!
While the
casual (pedestrian) horror viewer might look at this film as complete and utter horror tripe,
My Bloody Valentine is an intelligent esoteric nod to horror fanboys.
For fans of the genre -
Absolutely go see this film.
It's a guilty pleasure BLAST!
5/5