MOVIES: My Bloody Valentine 3D [18]

Slasher films usually stick with what they do best, bloodthirsty gore and lots of it! Not often do you find a slasher that has quite a deep storyline and twists involved as well. My Bloody Valentine 3D has both, surpassing expectations of the film greatly. How well both are used is a different story.
The film revolves around Tom Hanniger, a man returning to the site of a horrific mining disaster which he caused, and which ended up sending a miner Harry Warden mental. Hanniger has plans to shut the mine but these are stopped by the towns people, plus Warden is back in town.

The film stretches the 3D effects to their limit with one scene in which a gun is pointed at you and a bullet is shot being particularly effective. The thing is with 3D generally, at the cinema it works and you come out amazed whilst on your own television screen, you are left unimpressed and disillusioned at the effects. 3D is not meant for DVD and this is one of the things filmmakers are looking past now, making 3D for the hell of it and not realising people just don't want to be sitting in their lounge wearing cardboard 3D glasses staring at a screen seeing red and green for an hour and a half.

My Bloody Valentine has much more depth in the characters, each character suspicious in ways and leaving you guessing right up to the last scene who exactly is Harry Warden. The film is a good horror, 3D effects are a bit overused but this is made up for with a deeper storyline.

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