My Bloody Valentine(2009)
2009 · Patrick Lussier · 101 min
Ten years after a Valentine's Day tragedy claimed the lives of five miners, Harry Warden returns for a vengeful massacre among teen sweethearts gearing up for another party.
Horror · Thriller
5.61.4k votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
5/5
Gore
1/5
Stays with you
How scary is My Bloody Valentine?
Watching this feels like being at a gory carnival ride, gross-out kills followed by a laugh and then another kill. The pace moves fast between short calm stretches and sudden, over-the-top pickaxe attacks, with the camera lingering on the blood and gore rather than building slow dread. The threat is a masked killer, not anything supernatural, so the fear is all about the body count and how creative the kills get. It's a fun watch-with-friends slasher meant for laughs and gasps, not something that stays with you after the credits roll.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, My Bloody Valentine rates psychological 1/5, visceral 4/5, gore 5/5, lingering effect 1/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 1 of 5
- Visceral: 4 of 5
- Gore: 5 of 5
- Lingering: 1 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 65 of 100 — leans Jump scares
Supernatural vs Real-world: 90 of 100 — leans Real-world
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 15 of 100 — leans Fun-scary
Intensity over runtime
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A brutal cold open kicks things off, then it settles into a sawtooth rhythm of calm stretches punctured by sudden bursts of violence, building to a slasher-heavy final act.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 1, 3, 4, 5, 4.
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