Urban Arson

The horror genre has been circling the drain for years. The only reason any of its water remains in the film sink is the hair ball of teen culture which continually refreshed to stop up the pipe. Just knowing that M(usic)TV doesn’t show music videos anymore is all the explanation I need to understand why bad horror movies continue to get made and do well in the theater. 

In a world where putting your face in your palm is an every day occurrence I present, My Bloody Valentine 3D.

Over the last few years films shot using 3D camera systems have been gaining traction. Sadly many of them featured a gimmicky technology which utilized red-blue glasses (I’m looking at you Spy Kids…). 3D is the wave of the future and films like My Bloody Valentine 3D will aid in its mainstream acceptance, preparing the film viewing world for James Cameron’s 3D masterpiece, Avatar.

My Bloody Valentine 3D is a bad remake of a bad 1980’s slasher flick called My Bloody Valentine.  Now “bad” and slasher movie usually go hand in hand. If you walk into a movie like this expecting “The Shawshank Redemption” you’re a moron, if you walk in knowing that you’ll get a movie full of darkly lit sets and cliche deaths using an impractical weapon you can have a good experience. I enjoyed the movie enough to not to walk out and got some good ideas of how to make 3D work for non-gimmick movies. It made me laugh and jump at the proper times; I got to waste a couple of hours of my life and eat at Fuddrucker’s.

The story is awful, the plot is tired and its twist is only surpassed in stupidity by an M. Night Shyamalan film. For it’s technical importance and tongue in cheek horror presentation I give My Bloody Valentine 3D 2.5/5 Stars.

Tags: facepalm, pop culture

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