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Valentine (2001)
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Reviews Counted:69
Fresh:6
Rotten:63
Average Rating:3.1/10
Consensus: Valentine is basically a formulaic throwback to conventional pre-Scream slasher flicks. Critics say it doesn't offer enough suspense or scares to justify its addition to the genre.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong horror violence, some sexuality and language
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:Feb 2, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $19,755,422
Synopsis:
Once a year, love is in the air and cards, letters, flowers and candy find their way to lovers' doors. But this year something different is coming... something not as pretty and definitely not as...
Once a year, love is in the air and cards, letters, flowers and candy find their way to lovers' doors. But this year something different is coming... something not as pretty and definitely not as sweet.
Kate (MARLEY SHELTON), Paige (DENISE RICHARDS), Dorothy (JESSICA CAPSHAW), Lily (JESSICA CAUFFIEL) and Shelly (KATHERINE HEIGL) are young women looking for a relationship -- a valentine to die for.
And this year they might just get their wish. -- © 2001 Warner Bros.
Starring: David Boreanaz, Denise Richards, Marley Shelton, Katherine Heigl
Starring: David Boreanaz, Denise Richards, Marley Shelton, Katherine Heigl, Jessica Cauffiel, Jessica Capshaw, Daniel Cosgrove, Lauren Lee Smith
Director: Jamie Blanks
Director: Jamie Blanks
Screenwriter: Wayne Powers, Donna Powers, Aaron Harberts, Gretchen J. Berg
Producer: Dylan Sellers
Composer: Don Davis
Studio: Warner Bros.
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Reviews for Valentine
Yet another one of those films that Scream was supposed to have buried but instead resurrected.
The contradictory sexual politics in this lightweight slasher suggest that at some point it was meant to satirize the traditional mores of the self-satisfied female characters.
It doesn't have those scare-the-sh*t out of you moments, and if it doesn't have any of those, what's the point?
Scary horror flicks went out with the emergence of the self-referential horror movie.
In the new teen slasher flick Valentine, a public-school nerd, now grown up, seeks to systematically murder all the girls who wouldn't dance with him at the Grade 6 Valentine's dance. Or maybe that's not what happens. It ís hard to tell.
The essential daftness isn’t helped by the stars, who play it straight when they should have gone for laughs.
I'm not a big fan of horror films, but as they go this isn't a bad one.
The horror-thriller Valentine makes mistakes where its successful predecessors like Scream didn't, essentially revealing its antagonist in its casting.
As run-of-the-mill slasher movies go, one of the best to hit screens since the post-Scream boom.
Hopefully audiences will come to their senses and mark this one "return to sender."
Just when the slasher genre had mercifully been left for dead, along comes this abysmally wasteful exercise to drain it of whatever life it has left.
A WB teen melodrama with the lamest villain since the Gorton's Fisherman in I Know What You Did Last Summer.
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