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My Bloody Valentine
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51 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 11
  3. Negative: 2 out of 11
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  1. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    67
    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.
  2. Premiere
    Reviewed by: Jenni Miller
    63
    This is a fun midnight movie. Horror fans, get your friends together and go see some gore and some naked chicks in three dimensions.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    60
    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.
  4. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    60
    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.
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    60
    At heart an unabashedly retro work, reveling in the cliches and conventions of the slasher horror pics that proliferated in the early 1980s.
  6. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Clark Collis
    58
    What really leaps out at you about My Bloody Valentine 3-D is its lack of imagination.
  7. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    58
    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.
  8. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    50
    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.
  9. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Scott Mendelson
    40
    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.
  10. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ethan Gilsdorf
    38
    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.
  11. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Jim Ridley
    30
    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.
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7.3 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 84 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 22
  3. Negative: 3 out of 22
  1. joeyp
    2
    Bad acting. even worse directing and horrible sound effects. In the combination of a lifetime of bad movies.
  2. JimboH
    7
    An intentionally campy horror movie that intentionally mixes bad special effects with some writing and scenes that are there just to comically milk the 3d. If you get it, its fun. If you don't, you're Jim Ridley.… Full Review »
  3. JayH
    6
    Very predictable, and the 3-D is unimpressive, but it has some good scares, the performances aren't bad and the score works. The rapid pacing is a plus.… Full Review »
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