In 2009, the Australian Classification Board released its report, which shows the most complained about tiles of the year. My Bloody Valentine was in the top five with a dozen complaints. Most of the complaints were about the film's gory violence. Although the film carried the highest rating available to a non-pornographic film (R18+) in Australia, many people who wrote in wanted the film completely banned.
The first two characters killed on screen are named Jason and Michael, an homage to characters from the Friday the 13th (1980) and Halloween (1978) series where the killers are non-speaking. A direct reference to the films is how they die - trademark features of the characters.
When the miner attacks Sarah Palmer at the old run-down house she flees for her life, and breaks through a boarded up glass window. However, considering the layout of the house, with the basement entrance being further down the hill, the window she escapes from IS in fact on the first floor.
Sheriff Palmer carries a revolver type gun on his belt but in a few scenes you can clearly see that he has two extra ammo clips on his duty belt which would only be used for a semi automatic type weapon.
When Tom Hanniger is revealed to be the killer through a montage of past events, one specific occasion shows him staring into a mirror to transform into Harry Warden. However, in the background, another mirror reveals the same transformation from another angle, delayed by mere seconds.
Yes, and it can be found at here. The trailer can also be viewed here.
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Is this connected to the 2001 film "Valentine"?
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The only thing that connects Valentine with the My Bloody Valentine movies is the fact that they both take place on Valentine's Day and are slasher films. My Bloody Valentine was made in the wake of the success of early 80's slasher movies, such as Halloween and Friday the 13th, while Valentine was made after the success late 90's slashers like Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. The stories of Valentine and My Bloody Valentine are also quite different. In Valentine, a boy tormented by a group of girls in high school grows up and begins killing the girls out of revenge. They are very different movies with completely different plots and are not connected to each other.
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Is it necessary to have seen the 1981 movie in order to understand this one?
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No. Enough information is given at the beginning of the movie to explain what happened on Valentine's Day ten years ago.