Wuchak
By-the-numbers slasher is entertaining
In the San Francisco area, five girls in 6th Grade reject a boys polite offer to dance with one of them falsely accusing him of assaulting her. Thirteen years later, when theyre all about 25 years-old, the women start receiving macabre valentines before their gruesome deaths. Whos killing them and why?
"Valentine" (2001) was made by the director of Urban Legend (1998), which gives you an idea of what to expect. Like Urban Legend and the overrated Scream (1996), theres a wink of parody, but its done better and is actually amusing, not to mention disappears by the second half.
Unlike those flicks, Valentine wasnt successful at the box office, but I like it better. Sure, its a standard s...