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12 January 2009 8:45 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Friday The 13th has the rep and spawned the sequels, but for this child-of-the-slasher-era’s money, My Bloody Valentine is the best stalker flick to come out of Paramount—or any studio, for that matter—in the early ’80s. What notoriety it has had stems from its severe scissoring in deference to the MPAA back in the day—a truncation that it has taken another distributor (Lionsgate, for the new special-edition DVD) to rectify.

Yet even in not-so-bloody form, Valentine has always had a number of qualities that set it several cuts above its dead-teenager brethren. For one thing, its characters aren’t teenagers but working young men and women (and their elders) in the mining town of Valentine Bluffs, where a long-ago massacre has led to a ban on V-Day celebrations ever since. But history is history, and so a group of fun-loving guys and gals decide to party it up, »

1 article from 2009