My Bloody Valentine

Episode 163: My Bloody Valentine (1981)

Theme: Holiday Horror Month
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis dig deep — literally — as Holiday Horror Month heads to the tunnels of Nova Scotia for My Bloody Valentine, the slasher that dares to ask: “What if the deadliest thing in town isn’t methane gas, but unresolved relationship drama?” It’s coal dust, pickaxes, simmering resentment, boiling hot dogs, and a love triangle so earnest it somehow coexists with industrial drill-press murders.

Join your two favorite Canadian-accent–adjacent cinephiles as they break down:

• How this movie manages to make every single supporting character lovable, right up until they’re shoved into boiling water, a dryer, or the wrong end of a shower pipe.

• Why Happy the Bartender deserves his own spinoff called Harbinger: The Musical.

• The absolute joy of watching the killer commit to the bit: precise kills, great staging, and enough pickaxe choreography to qualify as Olympic competition.

• How the movie somehow makes you care about TJ/Sarah/Axel like you wandered drunkenly into a Hallmark love triangle set inside a mine shaft.

• The final reveal that turns Act Three into “Canadian Scooby-Doo but with more limb removal.”

From paper hearts to upside-down decorations, from laundry-mat carnage to that unforgettable dryer spin-cycle, Oz and Curtis tackle a slasher that proves Canada absolutely knows how to party — even if the MPAA tried really hard to ruin the fun.

Final Verdict

Oz — 14 disembodied hearts
Curtis — 100 boiling hot dogs
Both — Still convinced Hollis was 76 years old, give or take a decade.