Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger, an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. But Harry Warden wanted revenge. Exactly one year later, on Valentine’s Day, he woke up…and brutally murdered twenty-two people with a pickaxe before being killed.
A strange synergy of old and new, My Bloody Valentine 3D blends cutting-edge technology and old-school prosthetics to produce something both familiar and alien: gore you can believe in.
– Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
20 Jan 2009
rotten:
The plot staggers from absurd to ridiculous, and the dialogue is strictly of the 'Look we don't have to go down there' variety.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
20 Jan 2009
rotten:
The trouble is that after that first gouged eyeball, there's not a whole lot further to go. Novelty value being a rapidly diminishing thing, the technology demands an escalation in intensity and inventiveness that the movie doesn't deliver.
– Jason Anderson,
Toronto Star,
20 Jan 2009
rotten:
What really leaps out at you about My Bloody Valentine 3-D is its lack of imagination.
– Clark Collis,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Jan 2009
rotten:
This briskly paced remake of the 1981 slasher goes easy on the cheesy 3-D effects while delivering lots of seriously nasty gore.