Four friends start to receive morbid Valentine cards and realise they are being stalked by someone they had spurned 13 years ago. A masked killer is on the loose and Valentine's day is soon approaching.
Denise Richards
Paige Prescott
David Boreanaz
Adam Carr
Marley Shelton
Kate Davies
Jessica Capshaw
Dorothy Wheeler
Jessica Cauffiel
Lily Voight
Katherine Heigl
Shelley Fisher
Fulvio Cecere
Detective Leon Vaughn
Hedy Burress
Ruthie Walker
Daniel Cosgrove
Campbell Morris
Johnny Whitworth
Max Raimi
Woody Jeffreys
Brian
Adam J. Harrington
Jason Marquette
Claude Duhamel
Gary Taylor
Wyatt Page
Evan Wheeler
Benita Ha
Kim Wheeler
Paul Magel
Lance
Haig Sutherland
Bookish Guy
Adrian Holmes
Banker
Ty Olsson
Jock
Daniel Boileau
Shy Guy
Noel Fisher
Tulga Gang Member #1
G. Patrick Currie
Religious Guy
Jo-Ann Fernandes
Maid
Joel Palmer
Jeremy Melton
Director
Jamie Blanks
Novel
Tom Savage
Screenplay
Donna Powers
Screenplay
Aaron Harberts
Screenplay
Gretchen J. Berg
Screenplay
Wayne Powers
March 23, 2022
7
_**By-the-numbers slasher is entertaining**_
In the San Francisco area, five girls in 6th Grade reject a boy’s polite offer to dance with one of them falsely accusing him of assaulting her. Thirteen years later, when they’re all about 25 years-old, the women start receiving macabre valentines before their gruesome deaths. Who’s killing them and why?
"Valentine" (2001) was made by the director of “Urban Legend” (1998), which gives you an idea of what to expect. Like “Urban Legend” and the overrated “Scream” (1996), there’s a wink of parody, but it’s done better and is actually amusing, not to mention disappears by the second half.
Unlike those flicks, “Valentine” wasn’t successful at the box office, but I like it better. Sure, it’s a standard slasher with the tropes thereof, but I enjoyed it from beginning to end. It’s similar in tone to “April Fool’s Day” (2008), just superior.
The notable female cast includes: Marley Shelton (Kate), Jessica Capshaw (Dorothy), Katherine Heigl (Shelley), Jessica Cauffiel (Lily), Denise Richards (Paige) and Hedy Burress (Ruthie). On the other side of the gender spectrum there’s David Boreanaz (Adam), Fulvio Cecere (Detective Vaugn) and Daniel Cosgrove (Campbell).
The rockin’ soundtrack is good, featuring acts popular at the turn-of-the-century, like Rob Zombie, Disturbed, Linkin Park, Deftones and so forth.
The film runs 1 hour, 36 minutes, and was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Riverview Hospital in nearby Coquitlam.
GRADE: B/B-
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$10,000,000.00
Revenue:
$16,300,000.00