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Avg. Critic Score: 51 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
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17 not for kids
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  • 67
    Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov

    MBV 3D is full-on, old-school, Fangoria-approved, gorehound heaven a supersaturated arterial goregasm with zero socially redeeming values for anyone other than first-year med students. Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | Jeannette Catsoulis

    A strange synergy of old and new, My Bloody Valentine 3D blends cutting-edge technology and old-school prosthetics to produce something both familiar and alien: gore you can believe in. Read full review

  • 60
    The Hollywood Reporter | Frank Scheck

    The 3-D effects come fast and furious, rendered with a technical skill and humor that gives this otherwise strictly formulaic slasher picture whatever entertainment value it possesses. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Joe Leydon

    At heart an unabashedly retro work, reveling in the cliches and conventions of the slasher horror pics that proliferated in the early 1980s. Read full review

  • 58
    The Onion A.V. Club | Scott Tobias

    But save for a giddily gratuitous sequence involving full-frontal nudity, a little person, and a French bulldog, the film is strictly by-the-numbers slasher boilerplate. It won't endure past the weekend. Read full review

  • 58
    Entertainment Weekly |

    What really leaps out at you about My Bloody Valentine 3-D is its lack of imagination. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times |

    Wooden performances by forgettable, generic actors -- again, just like in the original -- don't aid in making things any less leaden. Perhaps this is the best one can hope for from something like My Bloody Valentine 3-D, that it be just good enough to not be annoying. Or in this specific case, physically painful. Read full review

  • 40
    Film Threat |

    If a movie like My Bloody Valentine plays like a dime-store slasher picture, then adding 3D to the proceedings will only make it look like a 3D dime-store slasher picture. Read full review

  • 38
    Boston Globe |

    Lussier stages his movie not so much around nail-biting moments as novel ways to fling entrails at his viewers. But if you take pleasure in such mindless gore, there must be worse ways to spend 100 minutes. Read full review

  • 30
    L.A. Weekly |

    There's no excitement or terror in watching the 3-D execution of 2-D actors giving 1-D performances, just the steadily diminishing returns of the same eye gouge delivered ad infinitum. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says not for kids Ultra-gory slasher remake isn't for kids.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this ultra-gory slasher/horror remake is full of foulmouthed, unsavory characters, many of whom end up getting speared by pickaxe blades, shot, dismembered, and/or eviscerated. Human hearts are torn out and put inside chocolate boxes. There's extensive nudity in a sex scene that eventually becomes a nude chase-murder scene. Teenagers drink with abandon, police officers are unethical, husbands are unfaithful, and boyfriends are menacing. Strong language flows freely, from "damn" to "f--k" and everything in between.
  • Families can talk about the appeal of this type of horror movie. Why do audiences enjoy watching people be hideously killed? How does seeing this type of violence affect viewers?
  • How does this kind of horror film compare to scares in older movies of the 1950s, '40s, and '30s, when audiences got their thrills from the tamer Dracula, Wolf Man, or Black Lagoon creature?
  • Parents, ask your teens about their favorite horror movies or slasher villains. Why do they like them? What sets one apart from the other?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Repeated themes of infidelity in relationships and cops behaving badly (vigilante justice or worse).
  • rolemodels true0 Positive role models: Nobody worth emulating here -- the characters are pretty much uniformly unsavory and unsympathetic.
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Bloody dismembered bodies, characters speared with pickaxes through the skull and torso. One such impaling makes a bloody eyeball pop out of the face. Another rips off a man's jaw and throws it across the film frame. A girl's head is split in two by a shovel. Characters are shot at close range. Visuals of ripped-out human hearts, as well as the gaping chest cavities.
  • sex false4 Sex: Characters make a "sex tape" together in a softcore scene that features both male (from the rear) and female (from about every angle there is) nudity. An extended chase scene shows the same actress fully naked. Dialogue includes references to "hand jobs," marital infidelity, and out-of-wedlock pregnancy.
  • language false5 Language: Frequent strong language, including numerous uses of "f--k" and "s--t," as well as "c--k," "p---y," "ass," "bitch," "damn," and "oh my God."
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Some product names in the background of a grocery store, barely distinct.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Cigarette smoking, some drinking (including underaged). One character is obviously drunk. A main character takes some sort of prescription medication for mental illness.
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