Valentine (2001)
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Duration: 96 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Jamie Blanks
Stars: Marley Shelton, David Boreanaz and Denise Richards
IMDb score:
4,9 (30.744)
Releasedate: 2 February 2001
Valentine plot
"Remember that kid everyone ignored on Valentine’s Day? — He remembers you."
In the late 1980s, at a Valentine's Day school dance, unpopular nerd Jeremy Melton is laughed at by all five girls he asks to dance, except Dorothy. Moments later they are kissing in a corner. Some bullies catch them and make fun of them, whereupon Dorothy says that Jeremy has been harassing her. The young man is beaten up. Some twelve years later, the five girls are in their twenties and suddenly receive sickly Valentine's cards signed with JM. Would Jeremy Melton be back? Or is it someone else terrifying the girls?
Actors and actresses
Paige Prescott
Adam Carr
Kate Davies
Dorothy Wheeler
Lily Voight
Shelley Fisher
Detective Leon Vaughn
Ruthie Walker
Campbell Morris
Max Raimi
Reviews & comments
Gang_Star
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- 6837 messages
- 3401 votes
Remember that kid everyone ignored on Valentine's Day?
- He remembers you.
Default slasher. Especially a lot of formula work in which a masked killer kills a group of friends. The link is quickly made to an incident from the past, but does not contain too many big surprises. A fun cast with eye-catchers Denise Richards as eyecandy and David 'Angel' Boreanaz, but also a small role of Katherine Heigl who hides in a body bag on the run in the morgue, after which the killer slit her throat . The film contains a number of nice kills, including with a bow and arrow and a drill in the water after which a short circuit develops a reasonable atmosphere and it gets a bit exciting every now and then. End, on the other hand, provided the biggest surprise when the killer became known. To be honest, I didn't see it coming.
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Collins
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- 6658 messages
- 3958 votes
Bland whodunit with horror aspirations. The most striking thing about the film are a few nice kills that, in my opinion, could have been played out a little more graphically. Nice in the set-up, but rather well-behaved in the execution. Barely any blood. No gore. There was much more horror to be gained from the kills. We also find a few very predictable jump scares on the horror level and a storyline without any form of originality.
That meager storyline is quite disturbing at some point. The few nice kills certainly cannot hide the fact that the story is little more than fluff. The movie is full of standard situations where standard characters do stupid things. So standard that no character or specific situation lingers in the memory for long. Perhaps there is still a challenge for the viewer in that.
Fortunately, the film contains a lot of feminine candy that distracts the flat thoughts. And, despite the successful tricks of the candy cane to keep walking around neatly dressed or covered in every conceivable situation, that distraction works for a while. In general, this puritan ideology in contemporary films mainly arouses astonishment and laughter. Over time, this is of course no different.
Great killer by the way. The killer is terrifying enough as a threat. The masked slasher has a pleasantly scary appearance. An emotionless mask on a person almost always works effectively. Also here. It makes you uncomfortable. The killer and his kills are therefore the only strong elements in this very mediocre film.
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Shadowed
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- 9905 messages
- 5930 votes
Surprisingly fun.
Valentine was duped by many reviewers and other people, so it's striking that I had a lot of fun with it. It's not the best of its kind, but I can appreciate a movie like this every now and then. Too bad I'm one of the few with that.
It's not original anymore and I think every horror fan knows this by now. That's why I only look at slashers for the entertainment it offers and Valentine offers enough of that. The opening alone promises a special film, perhaps just because a slasher doesn't open like this very often.
Acting is not good and the characters are a bit boring, but sometimes there are good performances. Shelton is not the best, but Richards is doing well and in the beginning we also get to see Heigl. We don't see Boreanaz and Capshaw much but for what they show they are just okay.
Visually quite nice decorated and decorated. There are still quite exciting sequences, but it never gets very scary. The killer wears a cheap but creepy mask and the setup is funny. The murders could have been a bit more brutal, but they are entertaining and are performed relatively mercilessly.
It is not very mysterious and the twists are not that much. The final sometimes puts you on the wrong track and I was not really bothered by anything. It's a shame that the film eventually seems to forget its own concept, so valentines and so on. There could also have been a little more tension and the killer could have had a little more character in terms of trademark and so on. A fun and entertaining slasher movie.
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