My Bloody Valentine

"Get your heart broken."

Director: Patrick Lussier Year: 2009 Runtime: 101 min IMDb: ⭐ 5.6
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Synopsis

Ten years after a Valentine's Day tragedy claimed the lives of five miners, Harry Warden returns for a vengeful massacre among teen sweethearts gearing up for another party.

On Valentine's Day 1997, six miners are trapped underground by an explosion at the Hanniger mine in the small mining community of Harmony. By the time rescuers reach the miners, they find only comatose Harry Warden still alive. Further investigation reveals that Warden killed the other miners to conserve oxygen. Tom Hanniger, son of the mine's owner, is blamed for the explosion as he forgot to vent the methane lines that caused the collapse. One year later, Warden has awakened from his coma and is now murdering as an act of revenge. He starts by killing numerous patients and staff at the hospital where he was a patient, leaving a victim's heart in a box of chocolates. While Tom, his girlfriend Sarah, their friends Irene and Axel, and other teenagers party inside the mine, Warden – wearing mining gear and a gas mask – attacks them with a pickaxe. Sarah, Irene, and Axel escape but Tom is left behind with Warden. Sheriff Burke arrives and shoots Warden before he can kill the severely traumatized Tom, but Warden staggers away deeper into the mine. Ten years later, Tom returns to Harmony after his father dies. He is selling the mine, which angers mine manager Ben Foley. Axel, now the town's sheriff, has married Sarah but is having an affair with her coworker Megan. At the motel where Tom is staying, a masked assailant murders Irene and two other people. Camera footage from the scene reveals the killer dressed as a miner, starting rumors that Warden has returned. Axel receives a chocolate box containing Irene's heart. Meanwhile, Tom reconnects with Sarah and apologizes for his ten-year absence. Looking for Ben in the mine, Tom is locked inside a utility cage by the Miner, who murders Red, the worker accompanying Tom and vanishes before help arrives. Tom insists that Warden has returned, but Axel reveals that Ben and Burke found and killed Warden after his attack ten years ago. The group visits the woods where Warden's body was buried, but find that the grave is empty. Tom resolves to track down and stop Warden. Searching the woods, he finds the shack that Axel and Megan have been using for their affair. That night, the Miner kills Ben and leaves his body in Warden's grave. Axel realizes the killer must be one of the few people aware of the grave, and he becomes suspicious of Tom and Burke. The Miner attacks Sarah and Megan at their store, killing Megan just before Axel arrives. Sarah is hospitalized with minor wounds. The Miner then kills Burke as well as the maid of Axel and Sarah's home. Tom shows up at the hospital, telling Sarah he has to show her something he found in Axel's cabin. She checks herself out and accompanies Tom. As they drive, Tom suggests that Axel is the killer. Axel calls and urges Sarah to get away from Tom, whom he says is the killer; Axel has discovered that Tom spent the last seven years in a mental institution. Tom becomes increasingly agitated and Sarah, believing Axel, grabs the wheel and crashes the car before escaping into the woods. Sarah hides in Axel's cabin. There she discovers evidence of Axel's affair and a tower of empty valentine gift boxes. The Miner appears and chases her into the mine. She is hiding in the mine when Axel arrives, and Sarah grabs his gun. Tom shows up, and Sarah holds the two men at gunpoint as they each accuse the other of being the killer. Tom, however, mentions the way Megan was killed, inadvertently revealing he is the killer. As Sarah points the gun at him, Tom hallucinates, revealing the Miner is his split personality. A flashback shows him digging up Warden's mining gear and committing the murders. After a struggle, Sarah shoots Tom, and the bullet strikes a fuel tank, which explodes. Sarah and Axel are rescued from the resulting cave-in. Tom also survives, murdering the rescue worker who finds him and escaping in the worker's gear.

Summary adapted from TMDb and Wikipedia sources.

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Content Warnings

⭐ IMDb Parents Guide 🛡️ Common Sense Media

a dog dies
spoiler The french bulldog is fine.
someone is sexually assaulted
spoiler A woman is filmed during sex without her knowledge or consent
someone leaves without saying goodbye
Yes
there's domestic violence
Yes
someone is stalked
Yes
there's addiction
spoiler technically no, but tom is depicted taking pills a few times
someone is restrained
spoiler when tom gets in a fight at a bar theres men holding both him and the other guy back
someone is beaten up by a bully
spoiler kinda, whenever tom is in town and encounters men who dislike him strongly, the first thing that happens is he gets punched in the face without warning, this happens at least twice
someone's mouth is covered
Yes
there's eye mutilation
spoiler Man stabbed in back of head and out through eye, eye removed completely
there's excessive gore
Yes
there's body horror
spoiler There is violence and you see some bad injuries, but there is no actual body horror
heads get squashed
spoiler Many peoples heads get stabbed with a pick axe
teeth are damaged
spoiler Someones jaw gets ripped off
someone is burned alive
spoiler babysitter is put in a dryer
there's decapitation
spoiler the blonde girl in the beginning is decapitated through her mouth with a shovel
someone's throat is mutilated
spoiler idk specifically abt throat but someones jaw is ripped off and its almost the entire throat with it as well
there are hangings
spoiler There is a scene of the hotel owner being pinned to the ceiling with a pick axe and hanging there for a while
there's shaving/cutting
spoiler Peoples arms get cut by a pick axe
someone is buried alive
Yes
there's amputation
spoiler Top half of a woman's head gets completely severed by shovel.
someone struggles to breathe
Yes
hands are damaged
Yes
somebody is choked
Yes
someone is stabbed
Yes
Someone becomes unconscious
Yes
someone is crushed to death
spoiler mentioned multiple times people have been crushed to death or have been thought to be
someone breaks a bone
spoiler Someones jaw gets ripped off
a kid dies
spoiler It's mentioned that the killer murdered children, but it's not seen nor heard otherwise.
a major character dies
Yes
someone dies
spoiler well.
someone sacrifices themselves
Yes
someone cheats
spoiler Yes, and the cheater guilt trips the person they're cheating on for looking at a photo of an ex
a family member dies
Yes
a parent dies
spoiler It's mentioned, and the box of ashes is seen. But the death itself is not seen nor heard.
there are jump scares
spoiler they arent the average heavy jumpscare youd think though, its more of sudden camera angle change with a loud noise
there's ghosts
spoiler killer has visions of the original killer
someone is possessed
Yes
There's audio gore
Yes
there's spitting
Yes
there is copaganda
Yes
there's incarceration
spoiler not in jail but tom/jensen ackles is locked in a cage for an entire scene
needles/syringes are used
spoiler Someone gets stitches at the hospital
there's a mental institution scene
spoiler There is mention of someone being in a mental institution for 7 years though.
there's a hospital scene
spoiler at the start yes, but it isnt drawn out and passes over quickly.
a mentally ill person is violent
spoiler MAJOR SPOILER: Tom Hanniger (Jensen Ackles) is a person suffering from mental health issues due to having survived a killer's attack in a mine. Ten years later he returns. The attacks start happening again, and people think it's the original killer who it turns out actually died 10 years previously. It's discovered that Tom spent 7 years in a mental institution after being suspected of doing the crimes. Tom "turned into" the killer for unknown reasons and appears to be suffering from PTSD and DID. He violently kills a lot of people.
there's misophonia
Yes
someone suffers from PTSD
Yes
there's a claustrophobic scene
spoiler a lot of the scenes take place in a mine. also a girl is pinned to a wall with a bedframe
there's dissociation, depersonalization, or derealization
Yes
D.I.D. Misrepresentation
spoiler There’s very bad representation of DID and mental illness.
someone has an anxiety attack
spoiler tom does deal with quite a bit of anxiety towards the end of the movie but i wouldn’t call it an anxiety attack
someone has a mental illness
spoiler without any spoilers as possibly one of the main characters out of the around 5 of them is shown at the end of the movie to have D.I.D/a split personality
someone has a meltdown
spoiler idk abt meltdown but tom has more of a breakdown toward the end when he thinks he sees something
shaky cam is used
Yes
there's flashing lights or images
Yes
there are sudden loud noises
Yes
there's screaming
Yes
there is obscene language/gestures
Yes
someone is watched without knowing
spoiler Someone is filmed during sex without their knowledge
a pregnant person dies
spoiler A woman is killed around 1h6m, earlier in the movie she reveals she is pregnant but is not visibly so
there are homophobic slurs
spoiler In one scene Tom Hanniger is shoved and called a "Cocksucker" by an older man. The character is presumably straight and this 'insult' comes out of nowhere.
there's ableist language or behavior
spoiler Someone is suspected of being the killer solely because they used to be in a mental institution
someone speaks hate speech
Yes
there is sexual content
spoiler A woman has sex with a man in the begging, she’s show completely naked during the entire scene.
there are nude scenes
spoiler a woman is shown full frontal for pretty much her entire scene toward the beginning
someone is sexually objectified
Yes
the ending is sad
spoiler It has a "surprise" ending but it's not good nor bad.
there's end credits scenes?
Yes
a car crashes
Yes
a car honks or tires screech
Yes
there's blood/gore
Yes
there's gun violence
Yes

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