SpuffyWeb
Sadly Over-hyped
InformationRap
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Dom Nickson
Spoiler Alert! OK I get it, slasher movies died down around this time and to be honest this film sort of sucks! I liked most of the creative kills and the mask the killer wears, this film just flat out sucks. The acting from the girls are just plain horrible and I didn't really care if a single one of them died! The deaths are really just over the top and yet creative. I think the thing that really makes this film stick out from the rest is the mask and the creative kills. The story is sort of stupid because if a psycho really wanted to kill somebody that hurt them I don't think they would wait a whole 10 years until they come after you. Overall I give it a 4 out of 10.
Toronto85
Someone is killing young women who have a connection to one another - they all knew and/or bullied a boy in junior high school. We first see a Valentine's Day dance held in the high school in 1988. Jeremy Melton is a loner, some might even say a geek. He asks five girls his age for a dance. Most of them turn him down rudely EXCEPT for Dorothy. They get caught making out by some bullies and those bullies humiliate him in front of the whole school. Fast forward thirteen years - the girls are all grown up and are (for the most part) successful women. Pretty soon they, and others, start getting picked off by a mysterious serial killer who stalks them wearing a cupid mask. Could that boy they bullied and make fun of be the killer all grown up, or is the culprit someone new? Perhaps one of the girls' boyfriends?I really enjoyed 'Valentine' when I first saw it years ago. Is it a pretty sophisticated horror film. It's got a beautiful cast, gorgeous location shot, clearly a decent sized budget.. and it's actually scary! There is something unsettling about the killers' mask. It's a cupid mask, but from afar it sort of resembles Michael Myers' mask from the Halloween films. It was really creepy and some of the stalking scenes were just as creepy. The killer goes after his victims in a college campus, a small apartment, a mansion - all the location spots work in this movie. Lots of tense moments when he appears. There isn't a ton of blood, so the gore-hounds might be disappointed. I thought it was a decent amount. It didn't add or take away from the story.Some very good acting in this as well, especially by Marley Shelton, Jessica Capshaw and Denise Richards. I loved Jessica Cauffiel in this as the quirky Lily, but her role was sort of small and she was underused much like Katherine Heigl. I thought "Valentine" (for the year it was made in) was a cut above most slasher/horror flicks. It isn't just some silly average horror movie, it's got class and a certain kind of edge that separates it from others made around this time. The ending, without giving anything away, is also pretty terrifying in my opinion... Good movie all around. I recommend it!8/10
raisleygordon
Friday the 13th. Halloween. You know what you're in for. What's new this time is that the "story" is set on Valentine's Day. I know what you're thinking: Halloween events taking place on the sweetest day of the year? And yes, there's a prologue. I don't want to spoil anything for you, but what's revealed in the last scene of the film makes the prologue disappointing and pointless. Will you enjoy this movie? Well there wouldn't be any point on answering that question if you also liked (or loved) the Friday the 13th and Halloween movies. It's just the same thing, only in February. Needless to say, the movie is also predictable. Since it's just a rehash of the aforementioned movies, there's no need to judge the acting, positively or negatively, except to say the ending of the movie is a cop-out.*** out of ****
Ryan Notman :)
If you love the look of this movie don't watch the trailer because the trailer has nothing to do with the actual movie. But that is pretty much the only bad thing. This movie is fantastic I loved it. It was scary, thrilling and also funny at times. This is one of the best slashers I have ever seen in my entire life. The killers mask is creepy. The deaths are great and they actually look real also they are something different. I love this movie so much I have watched it over 100 times because it is just so good.So... Acting 8/10 ... Death Scenes 10/10 ... Setting 7/10.So overall... 25/30
