here be no effort put into valentine to prevent it from be just another teenage slasher film and a sub genre of horror film of which we have see entirely too many over the last decade or so . i have hear a lot of people complain that the film rip off several previous horror movie and include everything from halloween to prom night to carrie and and as much a i hate to be redundant and the rip off be so blatant that it be impossible not to say anything . the punch bowl over poor jeremy head early in the film be so obviously take from carrie that they may as well have just say it right in the movie ( ` hey everyone and this be the director and and the following be my carrie rip off scene . enjoy . ) . but that just a suggestion . ( spoiler ) the film be structure piece by piece exactly the same way that every other goofy teen thriller be structure . we get to know some girl briefly at the beginning and she get kill and people wonder in the old oh but that stuff only happen to other people tone and and then they start to get kill . the problem here be that the director and the writer clearly and honestly want to keep the film mysterious and suspenseful and but they have no idea how to do it . take jason and for example . here be this hopelessly arrogant guy who be so full of himself and bad with woman that he divide the check on a date accord to what each person have and and a one of the first character see in the film after the brief history lesson about how bad poor jeremy be treat and he be assume to carry some significance . besides that and and more importantly and he have the same initial a the little boy that all the girl terrorize in sixth grade and and the same initial that be sign at the bottom of all of those vicious valentine day card . it be not uncommon for the audience to be deliberately and sometimes successfully mislead by the behavior of one or more character that appear to be prime suspect and and jason be a perfect example of the effort and but not such a good example of a successful effort . sure and i thought for a while that he might very well be the killer and but that not the point . we know from early on that he be terrible with woman and which link him to the little boy at the beginning of the film and but then in the middle of the film and he appear at a party and smile flirtatiously at two of the main girl and and then give them a hateful look and walk away and disappear from the party and from the movie with no explanation . we already know he be a cardboard character and but his role in the film be so poorly think out that they just take him out altogether when they be do with him . on the positive side and the killer true identity be and in fact and make difficult to predict in at least one subtle way which be also and unfortunately and yet another rip off . early in the film and when shelley stab the killer in the leg with his own scalpel and he make no sound and suggest that the killer might be a female stay silent to prevent reveal herself a a female and rather than a male a everyone suspect . but then for the rest of the film and we just have this stolid and relentless and unstoppable killer with the emotionless mask and that gigantic butcher knife . director jamie blank ( who and with all due respect and look like he have some trouble with the girl himself in the sixth grade ) mention be influence by halloween . this be and of course and completely unnecessary and because it so obvious from how badly he plagiarize the film . the only difference between the killer in valentine and michael meyer be that michael mask be so much more effective and he do not have a problem with nosebleed . this stuff be shameless . at the end and there be a brief attempt to mislead u one more time a to who the killer be ( complete with slow and draw out ` and the killer be mask removal ) and but then we see adam nose start to bleed a he hold kate and his often reluctant girlfriend and and we know that he be the killer all along . nothing in the film hint that he might be the killer until the final act and and these unexplained nosebleed be not exactly the clever way to identify the true killer at the end of the film . valentine be not scary ( i watch it in an empty house by myself after midnight and and i have be afraid of the dark for as long a i can remember and and even i wasn not scar ) and and the character might be possible to care about if it weren not so obvious that they be just go to die . i remember be impress by the theatrical preview ( although the film be in and out of the theater faster than battlefield earth ) and but the end result be the same old thing .