Comments on: My Bloody Valentine (1981 original) UNCUT – dual review chat thingy http://midnightshowing.com/2009/05/my-bloody-valentine-1981-original-uncut-dual-review-chat-thingy/ Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:21:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Erin http://midnightshowing.com/2009/05/my-bloody-valentine-1981-original-uncut-dual-review-chat-thingy/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Erin Mon, 11 May 2009 03:35:38 +0000 http://ronnietucker.co.uk/midnightshowing/?p=952#comment-191 Wow. I must be the last person on earth to watch this movie, and I have to admit it was hokey at the beginning. I mean, I like country music a whole lot, but it's not really creepy enough to fill a slasher movie with. The characters acted like middle school students who drank beer and had jobs, and I've seen a bunch of Canadian films before but these accents were almost as sharp as the pickaxe. I'm Southern, so I'm not used to hearing all those consonants! But once they get down in the mine I have to admit it's a really good ride and although I figured out Harry wasn't the killer, I wasn't sure who it was until he started chasing the final two survivors. They did a good job in waiting to give the motive til the end too, though in a town that small how everyone wouldn't have been more sensitive to the feelings of the real killer before he started killing is beyond me. Like I said, it's a town full of idiots. But the killings were inventive and I'd never even thought of a human water fountain before, that has to make my all time list of kills. One thing though: who the fuck was that chick at the beginning who was giving the aerator hose a hand job, and why didn't she know why he stuck the axe in the wall? I sure did. I give it 3.25 stars, cause I'm deducting a quarter of a point for that low rent Gordon Lightfoot impersonator singing the theme song at the end. If I can find a copy that's dubbed in another language, I'll definitely watch it again. Wow. I must be the last person on earth to watch this movie, and I have to admit it was hokey at the beginning. I mean, I like country music a whole lot, but it’s not really creepy enough to fill a slasher movie with. The characters acted like middle school students who drank beer and had jobs, and I’ve seen a bunch of Canadian films before but these accents were almost as sharp as the pickaxe. I’m Southern, so I’m not used to hearing all those consonants!

But once they get down in the mine I have to admit it’s a really good ride and although I figured out Harry wasn’t the killer, I wasn’t sure who it was until he started chasing the final two survivors. They did a good job in waiting to give the motive til the end too, though in a town that small how everyone wouldn’t have been more sensitive to the feelings of the real killer before he started killing is beyond me. Like I said, it’s a town full of idiots.

But the killings were inventive and I’d never even thought of a human water fountain before, that has to make my all time list of kills. One thing though: who the fuck was that chick at the beginning who was giving the aerator hose a hand job, and why didn’t she know why he stuck the axe in the wall? I sure did.

I give it 3.25 stars, cause I’m deducting a quarter of a point for that low rent Gordon Lightfoot impersonator singing the theme song at the end. If I can find a copy that’s dubbed in another language, I’ll definitely watch it again.

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