Horror History: MY BLOODY VALENTINE Was Released Back in 1981
Mike Sprague
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On this day in horror history, George Mihalka’s slasher cult classic My Bloody Valentine with Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, and Neil Affleck was released in 1981.
John Beaird penned the script. It tells the tale of a small mining town organizing a party for Valentine’s Day. A few decades earlier an explosion at the mine trapped six miners underground. One, Harry Warden, survived, though in a deranged state. Warden is sent to a mental hospital but escapes and murders those he deems responsible for the mine accident. Now people are being brutally murdered again, and the townsfolk suspect that it is the work of Harry Warden.
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Conceived and produced entirely over the course of a year, the film was shot on location in Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, in 1980. It snagged $5.7M at the box office. Though that exceeded the film’s $2.3M budget, it was considered a disappointment by Paramount. Gathering a profit less than one-third of Friday the 13th.
In 2009, Lionsgate released a remake of the film. Patrick Lussier directed and co-edited the flick from a screenplay written by Todd Farmer and Zane Smith.
Remake or original?
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