Trivia / Valentine

• Billing Displacement: Denise Richards has less screentime compared with Marley Shelton but is credited first.
• Blooper: When Jeremy kills Shelley, the knife in his right hand keeps changing from an underhand grip to Reverse Grip depending on the camera angle.
• California Doubling: Inverted; the film is set in California (most of the film is set in San Francisco except for Shelley's scenes which are in Los Angeles) but was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Cast the Runner-Up:
  • Hedy Burress auditioned for Dorothy and was later cast as Ruthie.
  • Jessica Cauffiel auditioned for Paige before being cast as Lily.
• Creator Backlash:
  • Katherine Heigl has disowned the film.
  • Director Jamie Blanks has openly apologized for doing the film.
• Deleted Scene:
  • More graphic takes on some of the murders in the film.
  • Kate returning to her apartment after her talk with Gary and learning that most of her outfits are missing.
  • After Shelley's funeral, the girls have drinks and talk about Shelley.
  • Dorothy is attacked by the killer, which explains how she winds up in the killer's costume.
• Enforced Method Acting: The turbo-dating scene was not only written as uncomfortable due to the Terrible Interviewees Montage, but Marley Shelton was physically uncomfortable because she was suffering an allergic reaction to the synthetic wool scarf she was wearing.
• Executive Meddling: Director Jamie Blanks says that Warner Bros. had much of the violence trimmed down due to concerns over violence after Columbine, even though the MPAA approved the more violent cut. These include a more graphic take of Shelley's throat being slit, Gary being struck more times with the iron, and Kate finding Detective Vaughn's decapitated body instead of just his head as shown in the theatrical cut.
• Missing Trailer Scene:
  • The first 30 seconds of the trailer features a woman lying down in a field, plucking a flower to ascertain whether or not a man loves her. This does not appear at any point in the film.
  • Jeremy as a boy walking in on his mother having sex. Appeared as a Deleted Scene.
  • In an extended version of the bar scene, Kate and Adam talking about people acting crazy around Valentine's Day.
  Kate: Why am I surrounded by all this craziness?
  Adam: It's Valentine's [Day]; people get lonely, they start acting strange...
  Kate: [Beat] You're not acting strange.
• No Stunt Double: Marley Shelton and David Boreanaz contrived to have an actual bottle smashed against the latter's head as shown in the climax of the film, much to the ire of some of the producers.
• On-Set Injury:
  • Jessica Cauffiel received several minor injuries when filming her death scene; each arrow knocked the wind out of her (despite wearing a Bulletproof Vest) and she received bruises from slamming into the railing that her character falls over.
  • When Ruthie hits the Cupid killer with a pool cue, the stuntman playing the killer nearly suffered a concussion because the cue wasn't built to break away.
  • Denise Richards' stunt double received several cuts from the hot water jets when the killer throws Paige back into the hot tub.
• Playing Against Type: The trailer for the film is one of the few that has a female voiceover narrator.
• Referenced by...:
  • The scene where the killer chases Ruthie is featured in Malibu's Most Wanted when Sean and PJ take B-Rad into a movie theater; B-Rad proceeds to freak out before Ruthie gets killed, tossing his popcorn into the air and screaming for the film to stop.
  • The Jennifer Lopez episode from season 26 of Saturday Night Live includes a Parody Commercial that makes fun of the nu-metal band names on the movie's soundtrack album, featuring a list of band names that progressively get more bizarre as the commercial goes on.
• Separated-at-Birth Casting: Chelcie Burgart, who plays Paige at age 11/12, is a near absolute dead ringer for Denise Richards. They could easily be confused for sisters if seen together.
• Spared by the Cut: In an early cut of the film, Dorothy's father and stepmother were found dead in a closet during the third act.
• Star-Derailing Role: This film killed David Boreanaz's movie career in the crib. His television career survived unscathed, with him jumping straight to Bones soon after Angel was cancelled, but all of his subsequent films have gone Direct to Video in the US.
• Uncredited Role: Stuntman Marshall Virtue plays the killer whenever he wears the Cupid Mask, but is not credited for the role.
• What Could Have Been:
  • In the original casting process, Tara Reid was the first choice for Dorothy and Jennifer Love Hewitt was the first choice for Paige.
  • Jared Leto, Luke Wilson, and Jeremy Sisto were some of the first choices for Adam before David Boreanaz was cast.
  • Richard Kelly was one of the first choices to direct.
  • Gary was originally hit 11 times with the iron instead of two. An unedited deleted version of the scene shows him being struck four times.
  • Paige's death was originally even more graphic, with her skin melting after she's electrocuted.
  • David Boreanaz wanted to be the killer onscreen since he plays the killer's cover identity, but his schedule didn't allow it.
  • Bruce Campbell and Robert Englund were among the choices for Detective Vaughn.

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