Valentine’s Day: 15 greatest horror movies to get you through the holiday
By Devin Shea
My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009)
This is the remake I had mentioned at the beginning of the list. Many times, remakes are needless and infuriating. In this case, they kept just enough the same and changed the story just enough to make it stand on its own and be a pretty good movie. And if that doesn’t catch you at all, there is one reason and one reason alone to watch this Valentine’s Day horror movie: Jensen Ackles.
While it is unsettling to see him as someone other than Dean Winchester and not call for SAMMY! every few minutes, he is a beautiful human being and you can take 90 minutes to appreciate that fact.
This version of the film was directed by Patrick Lussier and stars our boy Jensen, Jamie King, Kerr Smith, Kevin Tighe and the incomparable Tom Atkins. Like the original, My Bloody Valentine 3D revolves around an accident in a mining town that buried six miners alive.
When only one is found alive and the others are found dead by pickax, it’s apparent that it was the work of lone survivor Harry Warden. When he wakes from his coma and kills some teenagers d*cking around in the mine, he is killed by police. Years later, the survivors of the teenage massacre start dying off and it seems to be the work of Harry Warden from beyond the grave.