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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0085392118724
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 24, 2001
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 18997
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Five comely and well-to-do female friends receive dire threats inside anonymous valentines. When two of them meet violent ends, the remaining trio suspect that the killer may be a nebbishy former classmate whom they spurned years before at a school dance. Their solution: Throw a lavish Valentine's Day party, all the better to distract them from the hulking, cherub-masked killer...
As the above suggests, Valentine is the absolute nadir of the post-Scream slasher film. Australian director Jamie Blanks (whose previous effort was the equally dismal Urban Legend, 1998) obviously had lofty goals for his film, given his bald-faced homages to John Carpenter and Dario Argento. But he hasn't a clue as to how to generate suspense, and his frequent reliance on well-worn shock effects (hands dropping on shoulders, etc.) suggests more contempt for the genre than affection. No less than four writers (including two writer-producers for Roswell, which explains the appearance of series star Katherine Heigl) contributed to the screenplay, which fails to generate the twentysomething drama and hip, cutting dialogue required for this brand of horror. As the five friends, actresses Marley Shelton, Denise Richards, Jessica Capshaw, Jessica Caufield, and Heigl have little to do other than alternately look attractive or afraid; Richards, in particular, looks weary of playing the man-eater. As Shelton's dipsomaniac boyfriend, David Boreanaz (Angel) lumbers through each scene with an embarrassed scowl.
Warner Bros.' DVD includes commentary by Blanks, as well as cast and crew interviews and a video for Orgy's contribution to the noisy, new-metal soundtrack. --Paul Gaita
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Fresh slasher flick with some classic scenes thrown in
Valentine
At the 6th grade Valentine's dance, geeky Jeremy Melton asks five different girls to dance. Shelley, Paige, and Lily are insulting and cruel. Kate is at least polite. Pudgy Dorothy says yes, but when the two of them are caught kissing under the bleachers, she accuses Jeremy of attacking her. The poor boy is beaten, stripped, and humiliated in front of the whole class, then shipped off to reform school, followed by a stay in a mental institution.
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Rating:  - Carries the torch of the classic slasher into the 21st century
This review is really like a companion piece to Daniel Jolley's Amazon review of October 12, 2002. He has already expressed everything I could about this movie in the best possible way. So many have panned it which is why I found Daniel's review to be so refreshing, and it inspired me to chime in my own two cents and up the review average in favor of this highly entertaining and very fun horror movie.
Some have said that "Scream" reignited the slasher genre in the mid '90s but I have ... Read More
Rating: - Look Out! Cupid's Got A Knife!...
VALENTINE is a terrific homage / tribute / throwback movie. Watching it takes me back to the gory-glory days of 70s and 80s classics like HALLOWEEN, PROM NIGHT, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, HE KNOWS YOU'RE ALONE, etc. I love the cherub-masked killer! There's just something very unsettling about a giant baby w/ a butcher-knife! As for the gorgeous gaggle of gals, I must say that I was impressed! Denise Richards (Starship Troopers, Wild Things) and co. are all knockouts, even while being knocked off! So, if you ... Read More
Rating: - Beware of Cupid's Deadly Arrows
"Valentine" is great holiday slasher fare. Though it is not a horror classic like "My Bloody Valentine," it is still enjoyable to watch. The body count is high and the death scenes are immaginative. The actors/actresses are gorgeous, the settings are beautiful, the musical score rocks, and the action is well paced. However, I strongly suspected who the killer was early into the movie because of a lack of surviving male characters. Therefore, it succeeds as a Jason-type slasher (the killer wears a ... Read More
Rating:  - Buy her flowers instead
Wow,this movie is quite possibly one of the most uninteresting slasher movies in years. At no time does this create even a small amount of suspense. The actors appear to be uninterested in the movie and look almost ashamed to be in the film.
After the tired cliched opening of a young picked on boy being beat and humiliated at a school dance we flash forward 13 years and find that he is now looking to get even with the girls who rejected him. The fact that the girls are made to look like horrible ... Read More
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