45th anniversary screening!

Screening times:
Friday, February 13, 6:30 PM

George Mihalka | Canada | 1981 | 90m

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

Strange Brew Film Society celebrates cult, offbeat, and alternative Canadian cinema. Devoted to the strange, nostalgic, and wonderfully unique corners of Canada’s cultural landscape.

Shot on location in Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, My Bloody Valentine transforms Nova Scotia’s industrial heartland into the setting for a small town urban legend. A catastrophic mining accident and a warning for the town never to celebrate Valentine’s Day again. When locals decide to once again hold their town's Valentines Day dance, Harry Warden returns to enact his revenge.

Director George Mihalka grounds the film not only in the real tunnels and coal dust of the mines but in a cast that feels distinctly regional—young miners, friends, and townsfolk whose rhythms, accents, and relationships reflect the culture of Cape Breton and small-town Nova Scotia. That sense of authenticity, combined with the film’s tense atmosphere and efficient pacing, helped secure its cult status with slasher fans.

Once heavily censored and reviled, My Bloody Valentine has since been reappraised as a landmark of Canadian genre filmmaking—an atmospheric, locally rooted horror tale that still shocks and resonates 45 years later.

"My Bloody Valentine stands up with Black Christmas as the best Canada has to offer in the oft-slighted slasher horror subgenre." - Canuxploitation.com

Tickets $12.65 ($12 cash at the door if available)
Apologies we cannot process Carbon Arc punch pass admissions to this event as this is a special screening with ticket proceeds going to Strange Brew Film Society!