I vaguely remembered this existed as my girlfriend and I drove around on Valentines Day. I thought it was called Valentines Day, and I thought maybe more like 2003ish, but I was wrong.
This movie is a real capitalizing on success flick, going for some of that post Scream revival. It dates itself extremely early and many times with actors that are really of the moment. Denise Richards, David Boreanaz, Katherine Heigl, Marley Shelton. Then it ups the ante later by tossing in some Deftones and Marilyn Manson songs while a party scene happens. Ah, 2001.
A formula and a killer is pretty quickly established as we have an original scene ala Terror Train but maybe dialed down a notch. Then we cut to modern day high school or I guess college teens being methodically hunted down by a black clad guy in a Cupid mask who bleeds from his nose whenever he kills someone.
The deaths range from sorta average to just ok, they were not yet in vogue enough to be the focus and horror was still in a post-Columbine place of being censored by the MPAA. Also in vogue somewhat at the time is remnants of the late 80s and 90s way of making you dislike the characters, a trope which I'm glad has gone away at least a little bit. Rooting for the villain kind of remains, but hating the other characters is a little out of vogue I'd say.
I called the killer in the end and its pretty traditional horror movie fare. I give it a solid 2.5
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