My Bloody Valentine (Movie)
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40 free My Bloody Valentine (Movie) trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
My Bloody Valentine is the Canadian slasher that took the holiday horror craze underground. Released in 1981, it follows a small mining town that revives its Valentine's Day celebration despite a local legend about a murderous miner, and it has grown from a heavily censored box-office letdown into a cult favourite. This quiz covers the whole film: the legend of Harry Warden, the killings and the last-minute twist, the cast and crew, the fight with the ratings board, and the reviews. It also takes in the 2009 remake in 3D, from its stars to its opening weekend, plus the film's afterlife in music and television. It is for slasher fans, horror completists and anyone planning a Valentine's Day movie night with a difference. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you pick up the background to the film as you play.
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Q 01What does the police chief in My Bloody Valentine (1981) find inside a box of Valentine's chocolates?
A human heart
A human heart sits in the candy box, with a note warning that murders will begin if the town's Valentine's party goes ahead. The authorities cancel it, so the young miners throw their own.
Q 02Which mining tool does the Miner, the killer of My Bloody Valentine (1981), carry as a weapon?
A pickaxe
A pickaxe is the Miner's trademark: he kills Patty with one deep in the tunnels, and the killer of the 2009 remake swings one too.
Q 03How does the trapped killer free himself from the rubble at the end of My Bloody Valentine (1981)?
He hacks off his arm
He hacks off his arm, then runs deeper into the tunnels shouting that he and Harry Warden will come back for everyone in town.
Q 04Why did the crew of My Bloody Valentine (1981) spend about $30,000 repainting the real mine?
Its owners had cleaned it
Its owners had cleaned it before the crew arrived, leaving the pit as bright as a theme park, so the production paid to make it dark and grimy again.
Q 05Neil Affleck, a lead in My Bloody Valentine (1981), later directed episodes of which animated sitcom?
The Simpsons
The Simpsons employed Neil Affleck from 1991 to 2000: he worked on 52 episodes and directed seven of them, a decade after his slasher lead.
Q 06Which Hollywood director has said My Bloody Valentine (1981) may be his all-time favourite slasher film?
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino called it possibly his favourite slasher of all, and Entertainment Weekly ranked it 17th on a list of film's guilty pleasures.
Q 07Which actor, later Soldier Boy in The Boys, plays returning mine heir Tom in My Bloody Valentine 3D?
Jensen Ackles
Jensen Ackles leads the remake as Tom Hanniger, and it went on to gross about $100 million worldwide on a budget of $14 million.
Q 08The director of My Bloody Valentine (1981) blames its heavy censorship on a backlash after whose murder?
John Lennon
John Lennon was shot in December 1980, two months before the release, and the director says the outcry over screen violence that followed cost the film its gore.
Q 09The Irish band My Bloody Valentine, formed two years after the 1981 film, pioneered which rock subgenre?
Shoegaze
Shoegaze is the style the Dublin band is credited with pioneering, and frontman Kevin Shields has claimed he did not know the name was a slasher film's title.
Q 10What covers the face of the Miner, the killer who stalks both My Bloody Valentine films?
A gas mask
A gas mask and mining gear hide the killer, and that deepens the mystery: other men in the working-class town wear the same kit, so anyone could be under it.
Q 11What had two supervisors skipped work to attend when the mine exploded in My Bloody Valentine (1981)?
A town dance
A town dance drew them away before their safety checks, and the cave-in that followed is why the town called the event off for the next twenty years.
Q 12Which young miner is revealed as the killer in the final fight of My Bloody Valentine (1981)?
Axel
Axel is the killer, having faked his own drowning earlier in the tunnels. T.J. stops him by striking him with a rock, which brings the roof down.
Q 13In which Canadian province was My Bloody Valentine (1981) shot, at a real coal mine that closed in 1975?
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia supplied the Princess Colliery in Sydney Mines, picked over a rival pit in Glace Bay because its bleak surroundings looked like the middle of nowhere.
Q 21Where is Mabel, the first victim of the new killings in My Bloody Valentine (1981), attacked?
A laundromat
A laundromat is where the Miner corners Mabel that evening, and the police chief hides the truth from the town, announcing natural causes to prevent panic.
Q 22In My Bloody Valentine (1981), what is Dave's face forced into when the killer attacks him in the kitchen?
A pot of hot dogs
A pot of hot dogs, boiling for the party the young miners throw after the official one is cancelled, is where the killer holds Dave under.
Q 23Which tool does the killer fire into Hollis's head in the mine tunnels of My Bloody Valentine (1981)?
A nail gun
Q 14Which studio behind Friday the 13th bought North American distribution of My Bloody Valentine (1981)?
Paramount
Paramount hoped for a second Friday the 13th, but the heavily cut film sold barely two million tickets in North America against about fifteen million for that hit.
Q 15What built up unchecked in the tunnels and caused the fatal explosion in My Bloody Valentine (1981)?
Methane
Methane went unmeasured because the supervisors had left early. The hazard was real on set too: it limited how many lights the crew could safely use underground.
Q 16How did Harry Warden stay alive while trapped underground in My Bloody Valentine (1981)?
Eating the other miners
Eating the other miners kept Harry Warden alive but drove him insane, and a year later he came back to kill the two supervisors he blamed.
Q 17What does the final showdown of My Bloody Valentine 3D reveal the Miner to be?
Tom's split personality
Tom's split personality is the Miner: a flashback shows him digging up Harry Warden's old gear and carrying out the murders himself.
Q 18Which US state hosted the shoot of My Bloody Valentine 3D, partly in a disused mine turned museum?
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania offered tax incentives, and the crew spent 13 days in the Tour-Ed Mine near Pittsburgh, which had been out of production since the 1960s.
Q 19Which TV series, whose star led My Bloody Valentine 3D, used the film's title for a 2010 episode?
Supernatural
Supernatural gave the name My Bloody Valentine to the 14th episode of its fifth season, a year after its lead actor had fronted the remake.
Q 20My Bloody Valentine 3D was the first film with which US rating to be projected in RealD 3D?
Rated R
Rated R, the remake was the first such film projected in RealD and the first to get a wide 3D release, opening in about 1,000 equipped locations.
A nail gun kills Hollis moments after he finds his friends Mike and Harriet, who have been run through together by a large drill.
Q 24In My Bloody Valentine (1981), the killer was traumatised as a child by seeing Harry Warden kill whom?
His father
His father was one of the two supervisors Harry Warden hunted down for leaving their posts, and the boy watched it happen.
Q 25Critic Roger Ebert dismissed My Bloody Valentine (1981) as yet another copy of which earlier slasher hit?
Halloween
Halloween was a well-made thriller in the eyes of both Ebert and Gene Siskel, who each gave the Canadian film a thumbs down as one of its many weak imitations.
Q 26The US ratings board demanded cuts to what in My Bloody Valentine (1981) before clearing it for cinemas?
Every death scene
Every death scene was trimmed, and even then the board sent the film back asking for more. Stills of the lost gore had already run in Fangoria magazine during the shoot.
Q 27Which studio made the 2009 remake of My Bloody Valentine and restored cut gore to the original on DVD?
Lionsgate
Lionsgate licensed the 1981 film while producing its remake and turned up a copy with unseen footage, putting about two and a half minutes back for a special edition.
Q 28Cinépix, producer of My Bloody Valentine (1981), scored its biggest hit with which Bill Murray comedy?
Meatballs
Meatballs was the Montreal company's biggest success, in 1979, and the slasher borrowed one of its faces: Keith Knight, who plays Hollis, made his screen debut in it.
Q 29Why was the killer's identity hidden from the cast of My Bloody Valentine (1981) until filming ended?
To keep acting ambiguous
To keep acting ambiguous, the cast learned who was under the Miner's gear only when the ending was shot, at the very close of production.
Q 30What does the police chief reveal about Harry Warden at the end of My Bloody Valentine (1981)?
He was long dead
He was long dead, having died five years before the new killings began. The hospital that once held him tells the chief it has no record of him at all.