It doesn't have those scare-the-sh*t out of you moments, and if it doesn't have any of those, what's the point?
Antagony & Ecstasy
February 15, 2012
A singularly direct and unchallenging example of the latter-day slasher film, made to a template that was starting to show its age every bit of 20 years before the movie premiered.
In the new teen slasher flick Valentine, a public-school nerd, now grown up, seeks to systematically murder all the girls who wouldn't dance with him at the Grade 6 Valentine's dance. Or maybe that's not what happens. It ís hard to tell.
eFilmCritic.com
July 25, 2007
Yet another one of those films that Scream was supposed to have buried but instead resurrected.
The contradictory sexual politics in this lightweight slasher suggest that at some point it was meant to satirize the traditional mores of the self-satisfied female characters.
