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For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for My Bloody Valentine can be found here.

My Bloody Valentine 3-D is a remake of the 1981 George Mihalka film, My Bloody Valentine, which was based on a story and script by producer Stephen Miller and screenwriter John Beaird. Although it is being marketed as a remake, the movie will also take on a story of its own. This movie will be more like what is called a "re-imagining," where the title is the same, a character or two are the same, and even the setting is the same, but the entire backstory and presentation will be drastically different.

Yes, and it can be found at here. The trailer can also be viewed here.

No, because this movie is not intended as a sequel to the 1981 movie. Those viewers who have seen the original movie will naturally want to make comparisons between the two, but viewers who have not seen the original will be able to view the 3-D version as a stand-alone movie. The original movie told the story of a psychopath killing towns-folk on Valentine's Day when the kids attempt to have a Valentine's Day dance. The movie was heavily attacked by the MPAA and critics, having its gore cut to the bare minimum and also being labeled as a senseless bloodbath. The remake will feature one of the characters, Tom Hanninger, returning to the town 10 years later, just as the killings start up again.

The story takes place in Valentine Bluffs, a small mining town in Nova Scotia, Canada. The town is haunted by a tragedy that happened 20 years earlier when a methane gas explosion trapped five men in a shaft when the supervisors left their posts in order to attend the annual Valentine's Day dance. A sole survivor, Harry Warden, was dug out six weeks later in a coma. Warden had survived by eating the flesh of his dead coworkers, but the experience caused him to go mad and he was committed to a mental institution. A year later, on Valentine's Day, he escaped the institution and murdered the two supervisors who left their posts, then cut out their hearts and sent them to the police in candy boxes with a warning to never hold a Valentine's Day dance again. Most of the young people in town, now 20 years later, laugh off the story as history and decide to reinstate the traditional Valentine's Day dance. As the night of the dance approaches, a man in mining gas mask and dressed in black coal mining overhauls starts to kill off the town's residents. Talk arises about the possibility that Warden has returned.

Meanwhile, young Tom "TJ" Hanniger has returned to town, having left to seek his fortune in California in some other venue than working the mines. In the interim, his best friend Axel and old girlfriend Sarah have linked up. On the night of the dance, a group of friends decide to go down into the mines, Sarah among them. TJ and Axel go after them, but the murderous miner is also down there, picking off the group one by one, eventually leaving only TJ and Sarah to battle the killer, who is finally stopped when the mine caves in. TJ and Sarah escape and are informed by a rescue team that Warden died years ago in the Sanitarium. The killer turns out to be Axel, the son of one of Warden's original victims. He saw his father get murdered by Warden and then became a killer himself when the town ignored the warnings never to have a Valentine's Day dance again.

The killer is Tom Hanniger, who has been in a mental institution for a number of years because of the psychological damage Harry Warden's killing sprees has created.

Originally, the movie was going to be released on Friday, February 13, 2009. The release date was pushed up three weekends to January 23, 2009 so that this film would not have to compete with Friday the 13th, a film with a much bigger name brand as well as being produced by Michael Bay. The Wolf Man also was originally planned for a February 13 release but was forced to move April 3, 2009 because of the popularity of Friday the 13th.

Yes, it was released in 3D using REAL-D technology, presented with 3D glasses made specially for the digital media used to create the 3D effects. These are the same 3D effects used in "Journey to the Center of the Earth". The film was also be viewable in 2D in some theaters.

The sequel to My Bloody Valentine was a project announced in the late 1990's and was in minor development stages all the way through 2005. The story was going to reunite Sarah and TJ, who would now be married with children, in the same setting of Valentine's Bluff. The plot was going to once again follow murders on Valentine's Day that are too familiar for Sarah and TJ as they attempt to unravel the mysteries linked with their bloody pasts. The film was going to be like Halloween H20: 20 Years Later in the sense that it would take place many years after the original film and show what became of the characters and their lives after the events surrounding the horrors of the original. George Mihalka was even set to return as director. Due to the poor box office performance of the original movie, however, a straight sequel seemed financially idiotic, and the film never went past first stages of development. It was believed that even with a direct-to-video film being made, the profits just would not be worth the bother, and with the recent success of other horror remakes such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween, the idea for a remake seemed much more appropriate.

Still, many aspects of the 2009 film have come from the planned sequel. These include Sarah having a son, Tom being suspected of the murders (as TJ would have been in the sequel), and the reunion years after a Valentine's Day massacre Sarah and Tom are going to be a part of the original massacre in the 2009 film, just as Sarah and TJ were a part of the original massacre themselves and would have had to live with the consequences in the sequel).

Yes, the cut footage thought to be lost has surfaced, and it will be released uncut (on Region 1 DVD) for the first time ever by Lionsgate on January 13th 2009. More info here.

The only thing that connects Valentine with the My Bloody Valentine movies is the fact that they both take place on Valentine's Day and are slasher films. My Bloody Valentine was made in the wake of the success of early 80's slasher movies, such as Halloween and Friday the 13th, while Valentine was made after the success late 90's slashers like Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. The stories of Valentine and My Bloody Valentine are also quite different. In Valentine, a boy tormented by a group of girls in high school grows up and begins killing the girls out of revenge. They are very different movies with completely different plots and are not connected to each other.