Q 01/05

What does the police chief in My Bloody Valentine (1981) find inside a box of Valentine's chocolates?

A) A severed finger

B) A human heart

C) A stick of dynamite

D) A bloodied lamp

Answer · why

B) 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...

Q 02/05

Which mining tool does the Miner, the killer of My Bloody Valentine (1981), carry as a weapon?

A) A shovel

B) A sledgehammer

C) A crowbar

D) A pickaxe

Answer · why

D) 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 03/05

How does the trapped killer free himself from the rubble at the end of My Bloody Valentine (1981)?

A) He hacks off his arm

B) He blasts the rock

C) He tunnels out by hand

D) Police pull him out

Answer · why

A) 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 04/05

Why did the crew of My Bloody Valentine (1981) spend about $30,000 repainting the real mine?

A) A flood had stained it

B) Safety inspectors required it

C) Its owners had cleaned it

D) The cameras needed contrast

Answer · why

C) 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 05/05

Neil Affleck, a lead in My Bloody Valentine (1981), later directed episodes of which animated sitcom?

A) South Park

B) The Simpsons

C) American Dad

D) Futurama

Answer · why

B) 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.