My Bloody Valentine

• Horror
• Thriller

A claustrophobic and darkly playful slasher unfolds in a remote mining town haunted by a decades-old Valentine’s Day massacre. The film distinguishes itself not through groundbreaking scares, but through a uniquely insidious tension fueled by the setting – a community intimately linked to the treacherous depths of the coal mines – and the killer's macabre use of mining tools as weapons. Beyond the familiar tropes of the genre, the narrative weaves a compelling game of suspicion amongst a group of couples preparing for a Valentine's dance, escalating anxieties with pointed threats delivered via unsettling romantic gestures and a history of collective trauma. This isn't a film about supernatural horror, but about the suffocating weight of a small town's secrets and the chilling re-emergence of a brutal past, presented with a distinctly Canadian canuxploitation sensibility.