Valentine

Review

Valentine is a horror movie based on the most loving day of the year Valentine’s Day. This movie was your standard slasher with a whodunit element. For me these movies are very hard to accomplish because the standard for this niche is Scream (1996) which is objectively one of the greatest horror movies of all time, if not the absolute greatest. This means that most movies in the genre don’t live up to high expectations which makes them seem much worse by comparison. I enjoyed this movie but under the extremely high expectations it falls a little flat.

This movie is about a group of friends who are getting terrorized by a boy that they knew from middle school whilst dealing with relationship woes and trying to figure out which of the men in their lives is Jeremy Melton.

As for things I liked about this movie, I think the aesthetics surrounding Valentine’s Day are done really well, I liked the Valentine’s day cards that Jeremy sent them before killing them, I liked how intricately they were designed and the moving elements to the cards were a really fun. I also thought that the mask was really cool the more you looked at it the creepier it got which was cool, however I did think it’s inclusion at the dance scene was really weird and didn’t really fit

Speaking of the dance scene, I thought that this scene was a cool way to start the movie and the yearbook interspliced with the scenes of Jeremy asking girls to dance was really interesting and I really liked it.

As for the kills I think they amped up as the movie went on, specifically regarding the girls’ kills. My favorite kill was definitely Paige’s because each element amped up the horror and it’s definitely a kill that has never been done in a horror movie before this. My least favorite kill was probably the girl at the beginning, I liked the bit where he’s stabbing the body bags but in the end it was just a stabbing and I feel like the chase scene, atmosphere, and visuals didn’t make up for the lackluster method.

I liked the reveal even though I guessed it from the beginning. The final girl circuit is probably the most disturbing and strangest one I’ve seen. We don’t know for sure is Adam is Jeremy so seeing Kate run around while Adam is just stumbling drunk and seemingly confused is really disturbing. I really liked it and it was probably the scariest part of the movie, I really liked it. Even the lead up to Kate’s circuit is super scary, the moment when they’re dancing is so disturbing and I love it so much.

As for the things I wasn’t a big fan of, none of the characters are super memorable, except for Paige, so I didn’t really care about any of them.

I also didn’t feel like Jeremy establish himself as anything bigger than a generic slasher when he’s in costume which means I probably won’t remember him in a couple of weeks which sucks.

This movie also went by really fast and I think it’s because most of the movie doesn’t have that much substance so it just went by in a flash.

Overall this movie was a solid ok. There were some good moments, some bad moments, and mostly meh moments but I’d watch it again if someone else wanted to watch it.