Valentine

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Valentine

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2001

1h 36m

Horror

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Love is in the air. On the most romantic day of the year, would-be lovers woo hearts with flowers, candy, cards and gifts. Best friends Kate (Marley Shelton), Paige (Denise Richards), Dorothy (Jessica Capshaw), Lily (Jessica Cauffiel) and Shelly (Katherine Heigl) are young women looking for a relationship -- a valentine to die for. And this year they might just get their wish.

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Critics Consensus

Valentine is basically a formulaic throwback to conventional pre-Scream slasher flicks, which doesn't offer enough suspense or scares to justify its addition to the genre.

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

Mar 14, 2019

2.5/4

Jamie Blanks' Valentine has aged rather well. A movie I didn't care for at the time of its release, I now see a lot more of merit in this slasher than I did back in 2001.

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Lisa Alspector

Chicago Reader

Feb 28, 2007

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.

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Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

Apr 25, 2003

0/4

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 s hard to tell.

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Josh Winning

Radio Times

Mar 4, 2026

2/5

Australian director Jamie Blanks (Urban Legend) assembles a love letter to 80s slashers, but the result is a film that feels closest to the more superficial movies of that era.

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Rocco T. Thompson

Rue Morgue Magazine

Jul 3, 2024

Unlike the charmingly 90s Urban Legend, Jamie Blanks’ follow-up was late to the party, running on the previous decade’s creative fumes.

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Sep 22, 2022

3/10

The frequent jump-scares and the various women spontaneously finding themselves in ill-lit, isolated locations prove to be only middlingly creative.

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Joe G

@darkknight85 Oct 3, 2026

Cool 😎 kills 🔪 , cool mask, cool story. Looking back at it from 25 years (2026) I might have it as a classic 🤔

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Gracie B

@RT01802291 Sep 20, 2026

Typical early 2000s horror movie. Had a feeling who the bad guy was most the time. Was kinda rushing thru to the end.

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TheMovieSearch R

@TheMovieSearch Sep 9, 2026

Valentine is a rough movie, but I wouldn’t go as far as calling it an awful film. It’s definitely not as terrible as some people make it out to be. Is it great? Absolutely not. But it’s an entertaining movie for what it is. It’s a whodunit-style horror thriller centered around Cupid killing people, and the idea is supposed to keep you guessing about who the killer is. The problem is that the movie doesn’t really hide the answer very well. You can figure out who the killer is fairly quickly because the screenplay doesn’t create enough uncertainty to keep you playing the guessing game. That’s where the movie loses some of its suspense. Unlike Scream, which constantly makes you question who could be behind the mask, Valentine feels like it already has the answer sitting right in front of you. That takes away some of the mystery and makes the story less engaging than it could have been. Still, I don’t think Valentine is a terrible film. It’s fun for what it is

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Michael W

@mawilps Sep 6, 2026

This horror movie was terrible. Marley Shelton, David Boreanaz, Denise Richards, Jessica Capshaw, Jessica Cauffiel, Katharine Heigl, and the rest of the cast did a terrible job in this movie. The plot of the movie was tedious and ridiculous. It's just a revenge movie about a guy who was bullied in junior high and going after the women who teased and humiliated him. If you haven't seen this movie yet, don't waste your time. It's not worth it.

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Damien S

@Damien197384 Aug 6, 2026

Well, it’s a slow paste slasher movie that doesn’t really take itself seriously and the kills are pretty dull

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Douglas E

@RT50442544 Jun 13, 2026

Já tinha assistido, mas não me lembrava. É um bom passatempo para os fãs do gênero. Os anos 2000 produziram bons slashers.

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Synopsis

Love is in the air. On the most romantic day of the year, would-be lovers woo hearts with flowers, candy, cards and gifts. Best friends Kate (Marley Shelton), Paige (Denise Richards), Dorothy (Jessica Capshaw), Lily (Jessica Cauffiel) and Shelly (Katherine Heigl) are young women looking for a relationship -- a valentine to die for. And this year they might just get their wish.

Director: Jamie Blanks
Producer: Dylan Sellers
Screenwriter: Tom Savage, Donna Powers, Wayne Powers, Gretchen J. Berg, Aaron Harberts
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: NPV Entertainment, Village Roadshow Prod., Cupid Productions Inc.
Rating: R (Some Sexuality|Language|Strong Horror Violence)
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 2, 2001, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 24, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $20.4M
Runtime: 1h 36m
Sound Mix: Dolby SR, DTS, Dolby Stereo, Surround, SDDS, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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