Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790761978 Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 0790761971 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: January 08, 2002 Running Time: 96 minutes Sales Rank: 163677 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: February 02, 2001
Amazon.com: Five comely and well-to-do female friends receive dire threats inside anonymous valentines. When two of them meet violent ends, the remaining trio suspect that the killer may be a nebbishy former classmate whom they spurned years before at a school dance. Their solution: Throw a lavish Valentine's Day party, all the better to distract them from the hulking, cherub-masked killer...
As the above suggests, Valentine is the absolute nadir of the post-Scream slasher film. Australian director Jamie Blanks (whose previous effort was the equally dismal Urban Legend, 1998) obviously had lofty goals for his film, given his bald-faced homages to John Carpenter and Dario Argento. But he hasn't a clue as to how to generate suspense, and his frequent reliance on well-worn shock effects (hands dropping on shoulders, etc.) suggests more contempt for the genre than affection. No less than four writers (including two writer-producers for Roswell, which explains the appearance of series star Katherine Heigl) contributed to the screenplay, which fails to generate the twentysomething drama and hip, cutting dialogue required for this brand of horror. As the five friends, actresses Marley Shelton, Denise Richards, Jessica Capshaw, Jessica Caufield, and Heigl have little to do other than alternately look attractive or afraid; Richards, in particular, looks weary of playing the man-eater. As Shelton's dipsomaniac boyfriend, David Boreanaz (Angel) lumbers through each scene with an embarrassed scowl.
Warner Bros.' DVD includes commentary by Blanks, as well as cast and crew interviews and a video for Orgy's contribution to the noisy, new-metal soundtrack. --Paul Gaita
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Rating: - Fun, entertaining, old school-like slasher!!
I really enjoyed this film! While it is not as intense or gut-wrenching like the more recent films The Strangers, Wolf Creek or High Tension, it is still a very fun, entertaining ride. I do not care too much for the horror films that came before this which are usually referred to now as the "post-Scream" era from the late nineties to the early 2000's. Scream was more or less making fun of the genre although it did have its fun, suspenseful moments. However this one worked for me. Like the original Black Christmas, Curtains and 2006's The Descent, it features an all-female lead cast and all the actresses are very likeable. They did not irritate me like say Jennifer Love Hewitt or Brandy in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer whose charactes are portrayed like a couple of dumb bimbos. By the way, I find it comical that certain people gave this a poor rating yet ISKWYDLS has over 100 ratings in the 5-star category. ... Read More
Rating: - Carries the torch of the classic slasher into the 21st century
This review is really like a companion piece to Daniel Jolley's Amazon review of October 12, 2002. He has already expressed everything I could about this movie in the best possible way. So many have panned it which is why I found Daniel's review to be so refreshing, and it inspired me to chime in my own two cents and up the review average in favor of this highly entertaining and very fun horror movie.
Some have said that "Scream" reignited the slasher genre in the mid '90s but I have never been a big fan of that one as it is to me almost like a play or satire on the familiar slasher movie formulas rather than a bona fide slasher itself. "Valentine" director Jamie Blanks however, clearly a die hard slasher fan just like I and perhaps you are if you're reading this, seems to realize that those same familiar formulas that "Scream" pokes fun at are formulas that work, and have made for some great entertainment ... Read More
Rating: - Look Out! Cupid's Got A Knife!...
VALENTINE is a terrific homage / tribute / throwback movie. Watching it takes me back to the gory-glory days of 70s and 80s classics like HALLOWEEN, PROM NIGHT, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, HE KNOWS YOU'RE ALONE, etc. I love the cherub-masked killer! There's just something very unsettling about a giant baby w/ a butcher-knife! As for the gorgeous gaggle of gals, I must say that I was impressed! Denise Richards (Starship Troopers, Wild Things) and co. are all knockouts, even while being knocked off! So, if you pine away for those good old days of SSS (Silent Sinister Stalkers), beautiful victims, and mobs of red-herrings, then VALENTINE should do you true...
Rating: - Beware of Cupid's Deadly Arrows
"Valentine" is great holiday slasher fare. Though it is not a horror classic like "My Bloody Valentine," it is still enjoyable to watch. The body count is high and the death scenes are immaginative. The actors/actresses are gorgeous, the settings are beautiful, the musical score rocks, and the action is well paced. However, I strongly suspected who the killer was early into the movie because of a lack of surviving male characters. Therefore, it succeeds as a Jason-type slasher (the killer wears a Kewpie doll mask in lieu of a hockey mask) but fails as a mystery thriller/giallo. "Valentine" tried hard to have a "twist" ending but never succeeded because the viewer knows the killer has to be male due to their nose bleeding everytime they kill. Favorite scene: When one character is shot with three archery bows, falls down a steep stairwell and lands inside a trash bin.
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