Valentine (film) Valentine (film) Valentine is a 2001 American slasher film directed by Jamie Blanks, and starring Denise Richards, David Boreanaz, Marley Shelton, Jessica Capshaw, and Katherine Heigl. Loosely based on the novel of the same name by Tom Savage, the film follows a group of women in San Francisco who are stalked by a man whom they tormented during their childhood. Release theatrically in February 2001, the film was critically panned, with critics deeming it too similar to 1980s slasher films. The film earned $36.7 million on a $29 million budget. At a junior high school St. Valentine's Day dance in
Horror film are Bob Clark's "Black Christmas" (1974). "Sleepaway Camp" (1983) is known for its twist ending, which is considered by some to be one of the most shocking endings among horror films. "My Bloody Valentine" (1981) is a slasher film dealing with Valentine's Day fiction. The boom in slasher films provided enough material for numerous comedic spoofs of the genre including "Saturday the 14th" (1981), "Student Bodies" (1981), "National Lampoon's Class Reunion" (1982), and "Hysterical" (1983). This subgenre would be mined by dozens of increasingly violent movies throughout the subsequent decades. Sean S. Cunningham made "Friday the 13th" (1980), Wes Craven