Valentine (2001)

good back-story, and good acting

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

In 1988, geeky Jeremy Melton gets rejected by every girl at the Valentine school dance. Chubby Dorothy Wheeler is the only one who reluctantly accepts. They get caught making out behind the benches and Dorothy fakes being attacked. Jeremy gets stripped and hit by the bullies. He gets sent to reform school. Years later, the girls who rejected Jeremy are getting attacked by a mask man. Shelley Fisher (Katherine Heigl) is a medical student working at the morgue. She is killed by the masked man. Paige Prescott (Denise Richards) and Kate Davies (Marley Shelton) are still best friends trying to find boyfriends. Adam Carr (David Boreanaz) tries to comfort Kate during Shelley's funeral. Lily Voight (Jessica Cauffiel) and Dorothy Wheeler (Jessica Capshaw) are also at the funeral. They are approached by Detective Leon Vaughn about the murder.None of the girls are nice enough and compelling enough for me to root for. I'm perfectly fine if they are all killed off. Even the detective is a sleaze. It's obvious who is being set up as the real killer. There is nothing surprising or original going on. There is nothing interesting or scary. There are some good talented actresses but none of them shine in this movie. The movie should center around Lily Voight. It's too scattered among the girls. The idea holds some possibilities but the movie is not imaginative enough to find them.

a twelve years old slasher movie but i do still enjoy watching valentine. I like slasher movie, specially from the 70's and 80's and i got everything i expect to see from a slasher movie in Valentine; 1. Murders as a revenge for an incident happened in the past. 2. Serial Killer with distinctive appearance. The Killer's sturdy stature in black attire and cupid's mask is a brilliant in my opinion. 3. The weird Valentine presents and card given by the killers might be reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine (1981). But it helps creating the suspense of the film. 4. decent hide and chase scenes. so far my favorites are both Ruthie and Shelley's murder scene. 5. Revealing moment of the killer's true identity.Perhaps people who dislike Valentine originally browse for a horror movie with malevolent supra natural beings or haunted house in their mind, they find the wrong list in either internet or magazine, stumble upon Valentine, and ended up being disappointed...

Bought this film on DVD nearly a year ago. Upon watching it the first time I thought it was god-awful. Now I've seen it around five times and, although its no masterpiece, its not as bad as I remember.The film sees Paige Presscott and her friends(where have I heard that surname before?), played by Denise Richards, Jessica Cauffiel, Jessica Capshaw, Marley Shelton and Katherine Heigl being stalked by an ex-student called Jeremy Meltonthey humiliated in their old school days. One by one they get sinister valentine cards and start being murdered by someone in a mask and black coat. Are any of Paige's friends safe with their dates? Could one of their dates be Jeremy now thirteen years older? Many people think that this is a slasher in the 'Scream' mould. I don't think that is the case. I think it was meant to be the sort of film that tries to get the audience to enter Jeremy's disturbed mind. A psychological thriller instead of a horror. However I still find some performances far too hammy even if those characters were meant to be comedic. I also found that the leading ladies were rather difficult to relate to. This is why I'm giving it a 5/10 at best.

Jamie Blanks' follow up to Urban Legend is another predictable post-Scream effort that once again ignores my two golden rules of slasher films: include at least one nude/sex scene and show us the goddamn gore.The film's cool premise—geek spurned at a school dance, goes insane and returns years later to wreak revenge—lends plenty of opportunity for outrageous slasher excess, there is certainly no shortage of attractive, buxom babes to exploit, and Blanks is a competent director, as evidenced by his more recent, very enjoyable, very gory Aussie-based horror Storm Warning, so, why, oh why, didn't he just do what was required here and inject some fun into proceedings with boobs and blood?Sadly, the first indication that this is going to be yet another mediocre slasher devoid of the genre staples comes very early on: in the opening scene, a shameless rip-off of Scream, big breasted beauty Katherine Heigl, who we assume to be the lead, is terrorised by the film's masked killer, fails to get her top torn off, and is killed in a frustratingly bloodless fashion.When Heigl dies in such a tame and tired manner, so does any hope for this film.