MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D (Maple, 2009) D: Patrick Lussier, w/ Jensen Ackles, Jaime King. Rating: NNN DVD package: NN Rating: NNN
Hallelujah! The 3-D works: almost no ghosting, half-decent colour (fiddle with your TV’s colour balance), and things pop right out of the screen.
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They don’t stick out very far or very often, mind you. Editor-turned-director Patrick Lussier doesn’t really embrace 3-D’s rich, cheesy goodness, but his compositions in depth work well on the small screen.
Despite the presence of a masked wing nut committing gory pickaxe murders, this isn’t really a slasher flick. It’s got adult characters, overlapping love triangles and clues to the killer’s real identity.
Tom Hanniger (Jensen Ackles) returns to the small mining town where 11 years earlier a mine disaster touched off a round of murders. The killings start again, with Tom as chief suspect, partly because he’s still hot for his ex-girlfriend (Jaime King), who’s now married to the local sheriff (Kerr Smith).
The cast has fun playing the guilty/not guilty ambiguity. Lussier and writer Todd Farmer devote much commentary time to pointing out the actors’ contributions but sadly have nothing to say about 3-D’s artistic merits. Neither does the mediocre disc-two material that, deleted scenes aside, fills barely half an hour.
EXTRAS Disc one: Commentary, 3-D and flat versions, widescreen. English, French audio. English subtitles. Disc two: Making-of doc, effects doc, gag reel, deleted scenes, alternate ending. Four pairs of 3-D glasses.