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The 3D remake of ''Film/MyBloodyValentine'', released in 2009 starring Creator/JensenAckles, Creator/JaimeKing, Creator/KerrSmith, and Creator/TomAtkins.

Much like in the original film, the film is centered around murders committed around Valentine's Day, perpetuated by a psychopath in a miner's outfit.

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!This remake provides examples of the following tropes:

* AbandonedArea: Tunnel Number 5, and the old Palmer house.
* AdaptationDistillation: Does a good job adapting the original storyline, streamlining the cast and dropping the annoying friend characters who exist mainly to die in the final act of the film. It also tosses in the bit of fan service of having the main character be called Axel, whom many fans of the original film liked [[spoiler:prior to the reveal that he was the killer]] better than TJ.
* AdaptationalDyeJob: Sarah is brunette here, in the original she was blonde.
* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler:Axel is not the killer this time.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** In this version, Harry Warden is far more evil then he was in the original. The original Harry was motivated by a desire to avenge himself and his fellow miners as he was the only one to survive the cave-in, and all the other miners were killed instantly. Harry only killed the two men he blamed for the cave-in. Meanwhile, the Harry in the remake is motivated by selfishness and sadism as the other miners survived the cave in, but Harry kills them to preserve his own air. After awakening from his coma, Harry [[AxCrazy massacres an entire hospital]], consisting mostly of invalid patients and (according to news reports) children, [[ForTheEvulz for seemingly no reason.]]
** In the original movie, Tom was straight-up TheHero, but here, [[spoiler:he's the killer this time]].
* AllThereInTheManual: A deleted scene reveals the shovel victim ("Teen Straggler") is named Brandy.
* AloneWithThePsycho: Tom, for a little bit at the beginning.
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The Japanese dub uses "Kagami no Kuni no Aria (The Mirrorland's Aria)" by Nana Kitade as its theme song.
* ArrowCam: [[spoiler:When Sarah shoots Tom in the side]].
* AssholeVictim: Frank is a trucker who films his sexual partners to make home porn movies and is a SuspiciouslySpecificDenial about being for his private collection.
* AxeBeforeEntering: The killer takes the supermarket's "Knock Before Entering" sign to its logical extreme.
* BaldOfEvil: Harry. [[spoiler: The real one at least.]]
* BarBrawl: The patrons don't take too kindly to Tom showing up at the local bar.
* TheBartender: Sam serves as this for the locals.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted. [[spoiler:Deputy Martin not only survives the entire movie, he's never targeted by the killer.]]
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Like the original, the gas mask appears to have black holes for eyes.
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: After Harry gets shot, some of his blood splashes onto Tom's face.
* {{Bloody Handprint}}: In the hospital after the massacre, and on the Palmers' dryer after Rosa's death.
* BodyInABreadbox: Rosa's corpse is left stuffed inside a ''running'' household dryer, and is half-cooked when the deputy discovers it.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: [[spoiler:Right before the credits, Tom glares directly at the camera]].
* BrokenHeel: Axel trips while running from Harry in the opening.
* BroomstickQuarterstaff: Megan tries fighting the killer off with a mop.
* CallingCard: The cut out hearts placed in candy boxes.
* CastAsAMask: Chris Carnel played both Harry and [[spoiler:Tom]] in miner gear.
* ChaseScene: The killer is fully capable of running after his prey.
* ConvenientComa: Harry fell into one after being rescued from the mine.
* CoolMask: Also works as a GasMaskMook.
* CouldntFindAPen: The hearts drawn in blood and "BE MINE 4 EVER".
* CreatorCameo: Writer Todd Farmer plays Frank the Trucker, and he ''wrote himself and extended sex scene''. Ick.
* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Selene is killed looking for her dog.
* CurtainCamouflage: Done by Harry right at the beginning.
* DangerousWindows: The killer attacks Sarah through one she had planned on using to escape the store through.
* DeathByMocking: Jason really shouldn't have tried this.
* DecoyProtagonist: At first Tom seems to be TheHero like in the original, however in the remake, [[spoiler: he's the killer while Axel is the true male protagonist]].
* DontGoInTheWoods: Don't go into the AbandonedMine or you ''will'' be killed.
* DualWield: Briefly done by Harry.
* EdibleBludgeon: During the fight in the grocery store, Sarah clubs the miner in the head with a lump of frozen meat.
* EverybodyKnewAlready: Axel and Megan's relationship.
* EveryoneIsASuspect: Harry Warden apparently died almost a decade ago but it could be anyone in his outfit.
* ExactWords: When Ben tells Tom to make peace with his father if he wants to, he shows him an urn containing his father's ashes.
* EyeOpen: Harry coming out of his coma.
* EyeScream: Jason, Ben and a rescue worker's deaths.
* FightScene: Lots, but props to Red for putting up a pretty good one.
* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Sarah manages to survive to the end in part because of this status as the most level-headed and calm but also because of her husband's help. Unusual in that despite being beautiful and conservatively dressed, she's also a mother.]]
* {{Fingore}}: When Red takes a swing at Tom in the bar, he misses and ends up punching a mirror.
* FlippingTheBird: Given to Irene by Frank.
* {{Flashback}}: While in a coma, Harry dreams about the night he became trapped in the mine.
* {{Frameup}}: [[spoiler:Tom attempts to do it to Axel]].
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Tom was driven insane by nearly being killed by Harry]].
* FullFrontalAssault: When Frank leaves her at the motel, Irene grabs a gun from her purse and charges out into the parking lot after him wearing nothing but a pair of shoes.
* {{Gorn}}: Some truly horrifying scenes of dismembered ribcages with their hearts torn off.
* GrossUpCloseUp: Of all of the female victim's corpses in their most FanDisservice glory.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: One of the hospital victims... don't ask how Harry managed that.
* {{Hallucinations}}: Tom suffers from auditory ones, [[spoiler:which later escalate to visual ones]].
* HomePornMovie: Frank makes them... without his partners' knowledge.
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Unlike the original, it's fairly incidental to the plot, though a deleted scene does reveal Harry was trapped while a Valentine's Day dance was being held.
* HystericalWoman: Megan completely loses her shit [[spoiler: when Harry Warden shows up in the grocery store.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Through the head. Several times.
* ImprovisedWeapon: The killer is attacked with a mop, a frying pan, a lamp base, a battery pack and ''a piece of frozen meat''.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: [[spoiler:Tom]] when he says that the message written in blood above Megan's body was the same one she had written in her Valentines card to Axel. Sarah then asks how he knew that Megan was dead, or what was written above her body.
* {{Infodump}}: The 3D newspapers in the opening.
* ItsAllMyFault: Tom's father in a deleted scene.
* JackTheRipoff: [[spoiler:Tom]] is copying the MO of Harry's original murders from ten years earlier.
* JawBreaker: Jim's death has him stabbed through the bottom of his face with a pickax.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Axel. He cheats on his wife with her employee, but he also [[spoiler:genuinely cares about the well being of her and their child, even telling his wife to shoot and kill him just to ensure that she survives unharmed.]]
* KarmaHoudini:
** Tom doesn't face any troubles from the law over his role in the mining accident. While Tom claims that it was an accident on his part that caused the explosion/cave-in, he is absolved once the rescue teams get to the miners and discovered that Harry sadistically killed his friends in order to ensure his own survival via hogging all of the oxygen for himself.
** After [[spoiler:Tom]]'s revealed as the killer, he is presumably killed by Sarah and Axel in the mines, but he survives and escapes.
* KickTheDog: Frank secretly videotaped himself and Irene, calls her a whore, flips her off, then says he's gotten tired of her. He also has a wedding ring on, so we can add adultery to the list.
%%* TheKillerInMe: [[spoiler:Tom]].
* KillUsBoth: Suggested by Axel when Sarah has him and Tom at gunpoint.
* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: The reason they decided to have the Thunderbird clerk be a little person, actually saying they though it gave the sequence "a ''Series/TwinPeaks'' vibe".
* MenacingStroll: Mostly, though the killer does run a few times.
* MirroredConfrontationShot: Done when Tom first comes face to face with the killer.
* TheMistress: Megan is having an affair with Axel. And is pregnant with his child..
* MsFanservice: Irene, played by Betsy [=Rue=], does not wear one stitch of clothing the entire time she is onscreen (and it's a long scene).
** In the opening, Jamie King wears a white see-through shirt that leaves little to the imagination.
* MythologyGag: Several to the original movie.
* NecroCam: [[spoiler:Used when Tom is revealed to be the killer]].
* NeverFoundTheBody: Harry. When Jim takes the others to where he is supposedly buried, the grave is empty.
* TheNineties: The prologue takes place in 1995.
* NoJustNoReaction: In the commentary, director Patrick Lussier mentions this was essentially his reaction to a test screener ask if it was [[TraumaticCSection Megan's unborn baby]], not her heart, that the killer cut out.
* NoTellMotel: The Thunderbird Motel.
* NotHisSled: [[spoiler:Axel's a RedHerring this time.]]
* OffscreenTeleportation: Justified, [[spoiler:Tom is the killer, and any scene with him and the killer together is just him hallucinating]].
* OffWithHisHead: Brandy is impaled through the head to the ceiling during one scene.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Axel getting stabbed.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Red's real name (William Kirkpatrick) can be seen ''really'' briefly on an evidence board.
* PeekABooCorpse: Sarah comes across several while running from Harry in the mine.
* PlotHole: [[spoiler:It's never revealed how Tom knew where Harry's body was, and it's very doubtful his father would've told him, considering how estranged they were]].
* PowerfulPick: The killer's mining pick.
* PsychoSmirk: [[spoiler:Done by Tom after TheReveal]].
* RedHerring:
** [[spoiler:[[DeadAllAlong Harry Warden]] has been dead this entire time. It's just an impersonator taking on his identity.]]
** [[spoiler:Axel]] is this, especially for viewers familiar with the 1981 original. It doesn't help matters when Megan, the woman he's secretly seeing, ends up a victim of the Miner, which can come across as a death motivated by SheKnowsTooMuch.
** [[spoiler:Deputy Martin]] is suspected by Tom to be the Miner, not to mention that [[spoiler:Martin]] is one of the few characters who knew where Harry's grave was.
* TheRemake: Of the original 1981 classic.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Tom is insane and the killer.]]
* RightThroughTheWall: Irene and Frank, much to Tom's annoyance.
* SayMyName: Tom screaming for Sarah after the car crash.
* SchrodingersCast: [[spoiler:While Axel and Tom were the killer and TheHero respectively in the original film, in the remake it's the other way around]].
* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: The poster has the miner swinging his pickaxe directly at the viewer.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Tom survives being shot and the mine explosion, kills a rescuer, and escapes in his uniform]].
* ScreamDiscretionShot: The death of the first hospital nurse.
* SexSignalsDeath: Irene and Frank are murdered by Harry Warden after an argument they have post-coitus.
* TheSheriff: Axel, successor to the retired Jim Burke.
* ShovelStrike: Sarah attacks Harry with one in the prologue. He takes it from her and proceeds to behead Brandy at the jawline with it. Near the end, Axel fights [[spoiler:Tom]] with one.
* SmokingHotSex: Planned by Irene, but the moment is ruined by Frank's assholishness.
* TheStinger: The killer appears and takes a swing at the camera with his pickaxe.
* StuffBlowingUp: The beginning and end have spectacular explosions. In 3D!
* SuperWindowJump: How Sarah escapes the old Palmer house.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Even though Red is obviously dead, the killer continues hacking away at him.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Jason and Michael. Their names are probably not deliberate.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Unless it gets embedded in a windshield.
* TitleIn: Ten Years Later.
* TokenMinority: Deputy Martin and Rosa.
* TurnOfTheMillennium: The opening of the movie takes place in the late Nineties before a ten year time skip.
* VaderBreath: The miner's outfit gives him this effect.
* VigilanteExecution: [[spoiler:Harry's death]].
* WhatTheHellHero: When Sarah makes it clear that she knew Axel was cheating with Megan, Deputy Martin gives him the dirtiest look imaginable.
* WildTeenParty: The opening has a wild teen party being held at the AbandonedMine. Which is in pretty poor taste since it is the anniversary of the explosion that killed six miners and closed the mine.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Tom, with the reveal that he's got a split personality, who hates him and wants to kill everyone around him and force him to symbolically watch.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: A reporter mentions that some of Harry's victims he killed in the hospital were children.