52 Movies in 52 Weeks: Week 17: My Bloody Valentine 3D

Ridiculous.

That’s pretty much my review.

But seriously, this was a weird and silly film. Not slapstick silly, but silly in the sense that the director certainly didn’t have any direction here and tried his best to piece some crap together to appeal to teenagers. It didn’t work out.
For some reason, I had wanted to see this for quite a while. Maybe it was the commercial, promoting the more-than-obvious slasher boiler-plate film. Even though everyone knows that horror films are typically crap, I thought I would give it a go.

From the very start, it was unconventional. Within the first 4 minutes of the film people are getting hacked. I thought to myself, “they must be forgoing any development whatsoever, and jumping right to the 3D effects- making it like a carnival ride.” This goes on for a while, then they break to more of a story, then back to the slasher component again just before it ends. Very inconsistent, and the director didn’t seem to stick to his idea very well. Either you’ve gotta develop things before they start running, or you’ve gotta abandon them altogether and stop pretending that it’s about anything more than scaring people. This one tried to sit on the fence, the story (or lack thereof) suffered. And the 3D action suffers too much also. So I guess what I’m getting at is that this largely film fails in all aspects. Not even worth a$1 Redbox rental. Total crap.

Score: D-