This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for… the week when MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3-D finally hits the big screen! I love 3-D, and an R rated 3-D horror flick of this magnitude has ‘good times’ written all over it. The week also rocks on DVD, as not only do we get the new releases of MIRRORS and TOKYO GORE POLICE, but also the Special Edition of… you guessed it… MY BLOODY VALENTINE, the original film to inspire the 3-D remake. It’s only the second week of January, and already this month is rockin’ for the genre–let’s hope this keeps up for the rest of the year!
MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3-D
Rated: R for graphic brutal horror violence and grisly images throughout, some strong sexuality, graphic nudity and language.
Starring Jaime King, Jensen Ackles, Tom Atkins, Kerr Smith
Directed by Patrick Lussier
Run Time: 1 hr. 41 min.
Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger, an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. Then, exactly one year later, on Valentine’s Day, Harry Warden woke up–and brutally murdered twenty-two people with a pickaxe before being killed. Ten years later, Tom Hanniger returns to Harmony on Valentine’s Day, still haunted by the deaths he caused. Struggling to make amends with his past, he grapples with unresolved feelings for his ex-girlfriend Sarah, who is now married to his best friend Axel, the town sheriff. But tonight, after years of peace, something from Harmony’s dark past has returned. Wearing a miner’s mask and armed with a pickaxe, an unstoppable killer is on the loose. And as his footsteps come ever closer, Tom, Sarah and Axel realize in terror it just might be Harry Warden who’s come back to claim them.
Rated: UnRated
Starring Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart
Directed by Alexandre Aja
Run Time: 110 Min.
In New York, the former NYPD detective Ben Carson is hired to work as night watch of the remains of the Mayflower Department Store that was partially destroyed by fire many years ago. Ben became alcoholic and was retired from the police force after killing a man in a shooting. His marriage was also destroyed and now he is living in the apartment of his younger sister Angie. However he has not been drinking for three months and sees the employment as a chance to rebuild his life. When he goes to the rounds in his first night, he finds that the mirrors are impeccably clean and his colleague explains that the former night watch was obsessed by the mirrors. After a couple of nights, Ben sees weird images in the mirrors, but due to the lack of credibility of his past, his ex-wife Amy believes he has hallucinations as a side effect of his medication. When Angie is found brutally murdered in her bathtub, Ben discovers that there is an evil force in the mirror that is chasing him and jeopardizing his family.
MY BLOODY VALENTINE: SPECIAL EDITION
Rated: R
Starring Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck
Directed by George Mihalka
Run Time: 91 minutes
There’s a big valentine-party planned in the little coal mining town of Valentine Bluffs, Nova Scotia. It is the first Valentine’s Day party in 20 years, because then there was an accident in the mine, and the accident happened because the men responsible for the security was at the party. The sole surviving miner, named Harry Warden, later killed them, and told the town NEVER to arrange a Valentine’s Day party again. The party begins, and so does the killing…
TOKYO GORE POLICE
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Yoshihiro Nishimura
Starring Eihi Shiina
Run Time: 109 min.
In the near future, the Tokyo Police Corporation is locked in a bloody war with the “engineers.” These genetically modified super-criminals can bio-fuse their open wounds with weapons, turning self-mutilation into a combat form. Ruka, the daughter of the police chief’s murdered right-hand man, is now the top engineer hunter. With cold-blooded efficiency she cuts through the psychotic engineers and tracks down their home base, a truly bizarre fetish club. Nothing keeps her from her sworn duty, even when she finds out the truth behind her father’s death.