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''My Bloody Valentine'' is a 1981 Canadian slasher film directed by George Mihalka and written by John Beaird. The film tells the story of a group of teenagers who decide to throw a Valentine's Day party only to incur the vengeful wrath of a maniac in mining gear who begins a murder spree, and stars Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier and Neil Affleck. Released during the height of the popularity of the slasher genre of the late 1970s and early 1980s, it is considered an example of the horror slashers reminiscent of popular slasher films such as ''Halloween'' (1978) and ''Friday the 13th'' (1980), the movie was filmed on location in Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, Canada. The movie is infamous for having had 9 minutes cut by the MPAA due to the amount of violence and gore. Though co-producer Dunning confirmed that the excised footage still existed, attempts to release it proved difficult as Paramount Pictures refused to offer an uncut version. Lionsgate subsequently secured DVD rights to the film (as well as several other Paramount features, under license) and released a version of the film with three minutes of the uncut put back in on January 13, 2009 (Lionsgate soon after released the remake into theaters). ==Plot== Two miners in full gear, including face masks, are seen going down into a deep mine shaft. They reach an alcove and one of the figures takes off half of their gear, and is revealed to be a woman. As the other miner refuses to remove his gear, he sticks his mining pick in a wall, and she does a strip tease, fondling the man's mask and breathing tubes in a sexual manner, resulting the miner killing her by impaling her chest with the pick's blade. The small town of Valentine Bluffs is seen preparing for a Valentine's Day dance. The town is home to a coal mine, where many of the local men work, both young and old. Hanniger, the town Mayor, discusses the Valentine's Day dance with a woman named Mabel Osborne, who runs a laundromat. Hanniger makes a vague reference to a past tragedy associated with Valentine's Day, and reveals that this is the first Valentine's dance to be held in decades. Twenty years before, a mining accident trapped five men underground. The accident was due to the negligence of two supervisors, who chose to go to the Valentine's dance instead, leaving their posts while the men were still below and having failed to check for dangerous levels of methane gas in the mine. During this time, four miners died and one named Harry Warden survived, through cannibalism, and was eventually rescued. A year later, Harry returned for revenge on the two supervisors responsible for the accident, killing them with his mining pick and cutting out their hearts, which he left in decorative Valentine boxes. He warned the town to never hold another Valentine's dance ever again. The warning has been heeded for twenty five years until the legend of Harry's threat has become a distant memory, and the town tries to put the past behind it by having another dance, since Harry Warden has been locked up in an insane asylum since the murders. The younger people of the town are excited about it. Three of these young people are involved in a love triangle: T.J. Hanniger (Paul Kelman), the Mayor's son, has recently returned from an unexpected departure where he tried to leave behind Valentine Bluffs and his girlfriend Sarah (Lori Hallier). In the meantime, Sarah has begun a relationship with T.J.'s friend Axel (Neil Affleck). Sarah still has feelings for T.J., infuriating Axel and causing tension between the two men. Meanwhile, Mayor Hanniger (Larry Reynolds) and the town's chief of police, Jake Newby (Don Francks), get an anonymous box of Valentine chocolates which, when they open it, contains a human heart, with a note threatening that if the dance goes ahead, more people will die. Hanniger and Newby are anxious about what to decide. That evening, Mabel (Patricia Hamilton) is attacked by a man dressed in mining gear, who corners her in her laundromat and murders her with a mining pick. The next morning, Jake finds her body stuffed inside one of the dryers, with her heart removed and her skin scorched from the heat. Newby tries to hush up the incident in the hopes of avoiding a panic, releasing information that Mabel died of a heart attack. Newby phones the mental institution where Harry Warden was incarcerated, but there is no trace of him there; his records are lost and his contact cannot tell Newby where Harry is or whatever became of him. Newby and Hanniger fear that Harry Warden has come back to continue his killing spree, and their worst fears seem to be confirmed when the coroner tells them that the heart in the box was indeed, the heart of the woman from the mine, approximately thirty years old. With the death of Mabel, the dance is cancelled and the union hall is locked up. T.J. and his group of friends gather at the local bar, where they hear stories from the bartender about Harry Warden and his rampage. They scoff at him, angering the bartender Happy (Jack Van Evera), who overhears them planning to hold their party in the mine afterwards. After they leave, Happy sets up a dummy to scare them, but as he leaves, the real miner kills him by driving his mining pick into his head. The following night, when the large group of young revelers arrives at the mine, T.J. and Axel come to blows over their rivalry. A young man named Dave (Carl Marotte) is murdered in the kitchen, drowned and scalded in a pot of boiling water by Harry, who later cuts out his heart and throws it into the boiling water, where it cooks alongside a large batch of beef franks. One of the girls, Gretchen finds it later, thinking it to be a gag, and Dave's body initially goes unnoticed in the kitchen freezer. Newby also gets a hint of trouble when another candy box, apparently containing another blood-soaked heart, arrives at the police building with a menacing note, explaining that the party is not over. The chief, unaware of the party at Hanniger mine, can only ask about the party. A young couple named John (Rob Stein) and Sylvia (Helene Udy) are making out in the shower area of the mine facility. When John leaves to go get beer, Sylvia is attacked by Harry, who first traps her by dropping miners' coveralls from the ceiling, and then impales her head on a shower nozzle. John returns to find Harry gone and Sylvia hanging from the shower, dead. One of the miners, Hollis (Keith Knight) allows some of the others to convince him to take them down into the mine. He heads down there with his girlfriend Patty (Cynthia Dale), Sarah, Howard (Alf Humphreys), and another couple, Michael (Thomas Kovacs) and Harriet (Terry Waterland). After they descend into the mine, Gretchen (Gina Dick), Howard's love interest, finds Dave dead in the freezer, and then John runs in telling everyone about Sylvia's murder. Axel warns that Harry Warden is probably responsible and is prowling the premises, and the party disperses in a panic. T.J. and Axel find out that the others have gone down into the mine, and they take an elevator down to warn them and lead them to safety. While down there, Michael and Harriet go off into the engine room to make love, and Warden impales them with a large drill bit. Newby runs into a frightened Gretchen, who tells him that Dave and Sylvia have been murdered by Warden. Newby tells Gretchen and the others to all go home, lock their doors, and stay indoors. Hollis discovers the bodies and is attacked by Warden, who uses a nail gun to his head. Patty and Sarah discover him and they catch a glimpse of Harry, who disappears into a tunnel. Howard runs off in a panic, leaving Patty and Sarah alone. Axel and T.J. soon appear and try to lead the two girls to safety, but the control panel to the mining cart has been tampered with. The elevator has been similarly disabled, so they climb up the service ladder. Halfway up, they are startled when Howard's body is hanged on a rope, his head being pulled off and spraying blood all over Patty and Sarah. Believing Warden is now above them on the ladder, they retreat. While rounding a bend in the mine shaft, T.J., Sarah and Patty hear Axel scream behind them. When they go back, they find his mining in a well, which T.J. explains is too deep to traverse. T.J. says Axel is surely lost, and they continue. Above ground at the surface entrance, Newby has learned of Warden's reappearance at the mine when he pulls over a car for speeding and three of the party-goers, Tommy, John, and Gretchen, tell him about the two murders. Newby rushes off to the mine with the remains of the police support to rescue the survivors and to capture Warden once and for all. In the mine, Warden steps out from a doorway and kills Patty with a blow to the stomach from his mining pick. Sarah and T.J. fend him off in a series of confrontations and chases, until they face off with him inside a small alcove that leads to an abandoned tunnel. The fight destroys the outdated wooden supports, and the tunnel begins to collapse. Warden's mining pick gets caught in a support beam, and he draws a hunting knife. During the fight, it is revealed that the miner is not Warden, but Axel (Faking his demise so he can continue his spree). A flashback reveals Axel is the son of one of the supervisors murdered by Harry Warden. As a very young boy, Axel was in the room and saw his father's violent death while hiding underneath the bed. The shock apparently snapped his mind, leaving him unstable, his potential for violence unleashed by the recurrence of the Valentine's dance. The entrance to the old tunnel collapses, trapping Axel underneath a great deal of debris, and apparently killing him. Newby and the police arrive as T.J. and Sarah start to walk away, but Axel screams; Sarah, who is still emotionally attached to Axel, rushes back to see him. Only his arm is visible, and she holds his hand, but it pulls away from the rubble; on the other side, Axel has amputated his own arm with his hunting knife to free himself from the cave-in. Through a hole in the debris, the others can only see him as he stumbles backwards toward the abandoned tunnel, babbling aloud about Harry Warden and threatening to return to kill everyone. As the one-armed Axel runs off to find another way out of the mine, he says "Sarah, be my bloody Valentine!". The film ends as an insane Axel runs deeper into the mine singing "Daddy's gone away, Harry Warden made you pay" to himself. The screen fades to black as Harry Warden's laughing can be heard, revealing that he's still alive. A ballad for Harry Warden plays over the credits. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「My Bloody Valentine (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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