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Released
1981 · FILM

My Bloody Valentine

A group of teens throwing a Valentine's Day party in a mining town must survive the vengeful return of Harry Warden, a murderous miner who seeks retribution for a decades‑old tragedy.

There's more than one way to lose your heart...

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Runtime
90 min
HorrorMysteryThriller

Synopsis

Twenty years after a Valentine's Day tragedy killed five miners, Harry Warden returns to exact revenge by launching a massacre among teen sweethearts preparing for another party.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Gerald VansierShot by Rodney GibbonsScored by Paul Zaza

Box Office

1981 · Box office

Made its money back — grossed 2.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$5.7M

Budget$2.2M
Worldwide gross$5.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Blutiger Valentinstagde
  • Meurtres à la St-Valentinfr
  • Il giorno di San Valentinoit

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