Episode description

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris celebrate Valentine's Day with the 1981 slasher classic My Bloody Valentine.

Filmed in Canada, My Bloody Valentine came out as the 80s slasher boom kicked off, following the success of movies like Halloween and Friday the 13th.  In the town of Valentine Bluffs, a tragedy at the local mine during a Valentine's Day dance results in miner Harry Warden becoming a cannibalistic psychopath.  He kills the mine's supervisors and threatens the town that if they ever have a Valentine's Day dance again, he will go on another killing spree.  The town tempts fate 20 years later and plans a new dance, and, as predicted, people start getting brutally killed by a killer in a miner's uniform.  Zach and Chris try to figure out how old everyone is supposed to be, if the Valentine's Day dance offers any financial benefits to the town, Moosehead Lager, the censorship that took out much of the gory kills, how it compares to the 2009 remake, and more.

You can watch My Bloody Valentine on Shudder, PlutoTV, and AMC+. Next week, we're watching the 1988 horror movie Monkey Shines to get into the mindset of The Monkey, which hits theaters next weekend.

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