Cult Favourite Slasher Movie From 1981 That Never Got The Sequel It Deserved

Audiences are privy to Slasher movies, at least the ones met with some amount of success, being turned into multi-movie franchises or even movie universes. That was not the case with 1981’s My Bloody Valentine. Written by John Beaird and directed by George Mihalka, the movie is about Valentine’s Day party that is attacked by a slasher in a miner’s outfit. Despite a lukewarm response when it was released, the film has garnered somewhat of a cult following over the years following its release. Although the movie was given a 3D remake in 2009, some people would assume that a sequel would surely come out eventually. As revealed in a recent interview by director George Mihalka, a sequence was indeed in the pipeline, but it never saw the light of day.

What set the movie apart, and the differences that prevented a sequel

A plan for a movie called The Return of The Miner was indeed developed in the 1990s. The producer for the project was supposed to be the producer from the original movie John Dunning himself. There were reportedly creative differences between the producer and director. The producer wanted the movie to follow the formula of having many teenagers in the film who are eventually hunted by a slasher, which is quite a common theme of slasher movies. Director Mihalka, was not willing to go with that route as he believed that he had broken moulds with the first movie, and wanted to do the same with the second one. He even talks about how Quentin Tarantino called it ‘The Deer Hunter’ of horror films.

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Multiple screenplays, but none agreeable

The screenplay that was created for the sequel, The Return of the Miner, did not include any characters from the previous film. Only the story would happen in the same coastal mining town- Valentine Bluffs. The other, smaller details have been forgotten over time as we are talking about the 1990s when the director had read the screenplay. Three different stories were presented to the director, with one even happening in an amusement park. The final nail in the coffin for the sequel was the remake happening and John Dunning’s unfortunate death in 2011.