Review – My Bloody Valentine (1981)

I’ve watched this thing twice and the remake once, and all either of them does for me is inflict an ear worm of Chet Baker singing a perverse twist on an old Rodgers and Hart tune. Question: what the hell does any of this have to do with Valentine’s Day? Yeah, the deranged killer is out to avenge some crap that happened on Feb. 14. Yeah, he cuts out human hearts, stuffs them into candy boxes, tosses in doggerel-infested cards and leaves them for people. Beyond that, however, the main action takes place in a coal mine. Could any setting be farther removed from pink lace and roses? I don’t see a slasher picture this dumb actually trying to be ironic, so I’m going with “tried to surf the whole holiday-specific horror flick thing spawned by Halloween and figured this might work better than Labor Day.” See if desperate