My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009)

I love a 3D film. I like wearing the cardboard glasses and watching a movie with very little colour. In My Bloody Valentine (a remake of the 1981 movie of the same name), the 3D glasses are green and red rather than the standard red and blue. This doesn’t affect the 3D effects, but it does mean the only truly noticeable colour in the movie is blue.

The story is a typical stalk and slash splatter fest. A crazy killer in a mine is presumed dead but reappears on Valentine’s Day 10 years later, coinciding with the return to the town of the mine’s owner (Jensen Ackles from Supernatural) who is also a survivor the original attack. The owner/survivor finds out his ex-girlfriend (Jaime King from The Tripper) is now married to the sheriff (Kerr Smith from Dawson’s Creek), and that allows for a little male posturing in between the slaughtering. There is also a lengthy full frontal nude scene from Betsy Rue, who does a great acting job while naked.

The story is okay (but derivative and the ending is predictable and revealed too early), but the 3D effects are cool. The killer likes to use a pick axe, and that is often poking out of the screen, as are eyeballs, and assorted bloodied body parts and implements. The novelty factor of 3D (courtesy of a double sided DVD) is a welcome variation to the genre and raises a mediocre film up to the level of fun.