History Film / MyBloodyValentine

* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Axel was the killer all along.]]

* CutPhoneLines

* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Axel was traumatized as a child by witnessing Harry violently kill his father, one of the neglectful mine supervisors]].

** Note the way John lifts Silvie up when he kisses her in the union hall early in the film. It's the exact way the Miner lifts her during her death scene.

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Axel Palmer is the true killer.]]

* CoolMask: The gas mask the killer wears to hide his identity

%%* TheAllegedCar: Most of them.

%%* BadassMustache: Hollis.

%%* TheBartender: Happy.

%%* CassandraTruth: Happy, sorta.

%%* ClosedCircle: The mine.

%%* CutesyNameTown: Valentine Bluffs.
%%* CutPhoneLines
%%* DangerousWorkplace: The mine, of course.

%%* DeathByMocking: Howard and Happy.
%%* DeathBySex: The first victim, Sylvia, and Mike and Harriet.

%%* DramaticDrop: John, when he finds Sylvia's body.

%%* TheEighties

%%* FinalGirl: Sarah.
%%* FiveFingerFillet: Played by Axel and Hollis.

%%* GrumpyOldMan: Happy.

%%* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Hollis and Patty.
%%* HystericalWoman: Patty after Hollis's death.

%%* LocalHangout: The Cage.
%%* LoveTriangle: Sarah, Axel and TJ.

%%* MenacingStroll

%%* OminousFog

%%* OohMeAccentsSlipping: TJ, most noticeably.

%%* RivalTurnedEvil: [[spoiler:Axel]].

%%* ScreamDiscretionShot: Mabel's death.

%%* TheSheriff: Chief Jake Newby.

%%* UltimateAuthorityMayor: Mayor Hanniger.

%%* WellDoneSonGuy: TJ and Mayor Hanniger.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] the famous {{Shoegazing}} [[Music/MyBloodyValentine band]] [[NamesTheSame of the same name]] [[ShrugOfGod who may or may not]] took their name from this movie.

* VillainSong: "The Ballad of Harry Warden", which plays over the credits.

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[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] the famous {{Shoegazing}} [[Music/MyBloodyValentine band]] [[NamesTheSame of the same name]] [[ShrugOfGod who may or may not]] took their name from this movie.

Twenty years ago, in the sleepy mining town of Valentine Bluffs, a methane gas explosion at Hanniger Coal Mine trapped five miners in a shaft when the foremen who were supposed to be supervising left to go to a Valentine's Day party (similar to the absentee camp counsellors in ''Film/FridayThe13th1980''). Six weeks later, the accident's sole survivor, Harry Warden, was rescued; he survived by eating his dead coworkers and ultimately had gone mad. After a year in a mental institution, he escaped on Valentine's Day, killing and cutting out the heart of the guilty foremen, leaving a warning that the same would happen if the town ever again held a Valentine's Day celebration. With this nothing but a distant memory and Harry supposedly back in the institution, the town is now throwing another party. Murders of the same manner as before start cropping up, and the town sheriff orders the party shut down. But the requisite bunch of none-too-bright teenagers ain't happy about this and elope to host the party in secret up at the mine instead. [[{{Gorn}} Big mistake...]]

Creator/QuentinTarantino said that this is his favorite SlasherMovie. The famous {{Shoegazing}} [[Music/MyBloodyValentine band]] [[NamesTheSame of the same name]] [[ShrugOfGod who may or may not]] took their name from this movie.

* BloodSpatteredInnocents: Jenny and Patty get covered in Howard's blood after a noose cuts his head off, and [[spoiler:a young Axel got splattered in his father's blood as Harry killed him]].

Creator/QuentinTarantino said that this is his favorite SlasherMovie. The famous {{Shoegazing}} [[Music/MyBloodyValentine band]] [[NamesTheSame of the same name]] took their name from this movie.

Twenty years ago, in the sleepy mining town of Valentine Bluffs, a methane gas explosion at Hanniger Coal Mine trapped five miners in a shaft when the foremen who were supposed to be supervising left to go to a Valentine's Day party (similar to the absentee camp counsellors in ''Film/FridayThe13th1980''). Six weeks later, the sole survivor of the accident, Harry Warden, was rescued; he survived by eating his dead coworkers and ultimately had gone mad. After a year in a mental institution, he escaped on Valentine's Day, killing and cutting out the heart of the guilty foremen, leaving a warning that the same would happen if the town ever again held a Valentine's Day celebration. With this nothing but a distant memory and Harry supposedly back in the institution, the town is now throwing another party. Murders of the same manner as before start cropping up, and the town sheriff orders the party shut down. But the requisite bunch of none-too-bright teenagers ain't happy about this and elope to host the party in secret up at the mine instead. [[{{Gorn}} Big mistake...]]

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* TheAllegedCar: Most of them.

* BadassMustache: Hollis.

* TheBartender: Happy.

* CassandraTruth: Happy, sorta.

* ClosedCircle: The mine.

* CutesyNameTown: Valentine Bluffs.

* DangerousWorkplace: The mine, of course.

* DeathByMocking: Howard and Happy.
* DeathBySex: The first victim, Sylvia, and Mike and Harriet.

* DramaticDrop: John, when he finds Sylvia's body.

* FinalGirl: Sarah.
* FiveFingerFillet: Played by Axel and Hollis.

* GrumpyOldMan: Happy.

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Hollis and Patty.
* HystericalWoman: Patty after Hollis's death.

* LocalHangout: The Cage.
* LoveTriangle: Sarah, Axel and TJ.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: TJ, most noticeably.

* RivalTurnedEvil: [[spoiler:Axel]].

* ScreamDiscretionShot: Mabel's death.

* TheSheriff: Chief Jake Newby.

* UltimateAuthorityMayor: Mayor Hanniger.

* WellDoneSonGuy: TJ and Mayor Hanniger.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: [[spoiler:Axel, the ''only'' blond main guy in the film.]]

* TheBigGuy: Hollis.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: [[spoiler:Axel, the ''only'' blond main guy in the film]].

* CanadaEh

%%* ChaseScene

** FlashbackCut: [[spoiler:Used to show Axel was present when Harry killed his father]].

%%* {{Gorn}}

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The opening scene of the film by a pickaxe stuck in the wall. There's also a deleted scene where two teens are spiked by a drill.

* LingerieScene: Right at the beginning.

* PoliceAreUseless: They don't really do anything.
* PowerfulPick: Killer's mining pick.

%%* ReactionShot

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Axel goes batshit in the end]].

* WeaponOfChoice: A pickaxe.

* WildTeenParty: Older than teens, but the principal is the same.

* BloodSpatteredInnocents: Jenny and Patty get covered Howard's blood after a noose cuts his head off, and [[spoiler:a young Axel got splattered in his father's blood as Harry killed him]].

%%* CoolMask

%%* EveryoneIsASuspect
* ExecutiveMeddling: Paramount infamously refused to allow the film's director to attempt to reassemble the film's original cut when the film was first released upon DVD, nor did they allow any sort of supplementary material to be filmed with the director or the actors involved in the film (as at the time, Paramount didn't think their slasher back catalog worthy of DVD extras or anything other than a bare boned release). This finally changed when Lionsgate secured the rights to the movie due to the then upcoming remake and released a new uncut version.
* EyeScream: Happy's death.

* HopeSpot: The elevator and ladder.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Via a drill.

* IronicNurseryTune: [[spoiler:Axel]] sings his own version of "Daddy's Gone-A-Huntin" while stumbling off into the mine.
* JackTheRipoff: [[spoiler:Axel]].

* LaughingMad: [[spoiler:Axel]], in the end.

* MalevolentMaskedMen

* MrExposition: Happy.
%%* MurdererPOV

* PeekABooCorpse: Mabel's charred body popping out a clothes dryer, and Happy's body coming down with a bunch of mining uniforms.

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: Besides the band, there was a slasher novel titled ''My Bloody Valentine'' released in TheNineties.
* SmallTownBoredom: Why TJ left Valentine Bluffs for the West Coast. As he put, "I fell on my ass out there", so he had to come crawling back home.

* VillainOpeningScene

* WeUsedToBeFriends: TJ and Axel.

* LostForever: While a majority of the cut footage is restored for the 2009 DVD release (thanks to producer John Dunning keeping it safe in a storage unit), there's a good 20% of stuff that unfortunately could not be restored due to the original negative getting corroded over the years or due to scenes simply being missing. One example being Mike and Harriet's double impalement death which director Mihalka remembers filming.
--> '''Mihalka''': ''There was a scene with the two kids in the mine and they’re joined together forever,”..... “There was a whole set up scene to that. They’re just necking and Tom’s lying on top of [Harriet] and the miner comes in and puts the [drill bit] through him. She’s got her eyes closed and thinks he’s just being a little frisky. She opens her mouth and her eyes just widen as he bleeds into her mouth. Then the miner goes whoomp! And [skewers] them both . That scene had to be taken out totally. It has disappeared and we’ll never see it.”''

[[caption-width-right:350:Love, [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Pyro]].]]

Twenty years ago, in the sleepy mining town of Valentine Bluffs, a methane gas explosion at Hanniger Coal Mine trapped five miners in a shaft when the foremen who were supposed to be supervising left to go to a Valentine's Day party (similiar to the absentee camp counsellors in ''Film/FridayThe13th1980''). Six weeks later, the sole survivor of the accident, Harry Warden, was rescued; he survived by eating his dead coworkers and ultimately had gone mad. After a year in a mental institution, he escaped on Valentine's Day, killing and cutting out the heart of the guilty foremen, leaving a warning that the same would happen if the town ever again held a Valentine's Day celebration. With this nothing but a distant memory and Harry supposedly back in the institution, the town is now throwing another party. Murders of the same manner as before start cropping up, and the town sheriff orders the party shut down. But the requisite bunch of none-too-bright teenagers ain't happy about this and elope to host the party in secret up at the mine instead. [[{{Gorn}} Big mistake...]]

* MinecartMadness: TJ and the killer do battle on a set of moving minecarts.

* AwesomeButPractical: Along with concealing his identity and looking just plain scary, the killer's mask can also be used to blind victims with the attached light.