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Valentine (2001)

Directed by Jamie Blanks

Horror

Most recently watched by zombiefreak, noahphex

Overview

Four friends start to receive morbid Valentine cards and realise they are being stalked by someone they had spurned 13 years ago. A masked killer is on the loose and Valentine’s day is soon approaching.

Rated R | Length 96 minutes

Actors

Denise Richards | David Boreanaz | Marley Shelton | Jessica Capshaw | Jessica Cauffiel | Katherine Heigl | Fulvio Cecere | Hedy Burress | Daniel Cosgrove | Johnny Whitworth | Woody Jeffreys | Adam J. Harrington | Claude Duhamel | Wyatt Page | Benita Ha | Paul Magel | Haig Sutherland | Adrian Holmes | Ty Olsson | Daniel Boileau | Noel Fisher | G. Patrick Currie | Jo-Ann Fernandes | Joel Palmer

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

I’ve always wanted to see this but it’s never been readily available (my library network doesn’t have it and usually not on streaming) but I discovered it was free w/ads on Vudu
—for Valentine’s Day I guess—so I fired it up.

Yeah, this is not good, which I had always heard. However, with the recent Scream Factory release there seems to be this rekindled fondness for the film. I suppose I can understand why people may like this movie, esp. if they are nostalgic for it. And for a 2/3s of the movie it ain’t bad. But it really starts to crumble in that final act.

All that said, it’s amusing to view these films that lock into a specific period of time. This is when cellphones were in use but not prominent and people still regularly used landlines. It’s such a “white rich people” movie, too, as well as another slasher remnant that started in the late 90s but also lesser fare than the Screams, Urban Legends, and I Know What You Last Summers. 

Glad to have finally viewed this on Valentine’s Day no less but not something I’d revisit.

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