My Bloody Valentine

Here is a film near and dear to my heart. Shot in Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia (just down the shore from where I grew up) this slasher film offering has a miner with a pickaxe on the rampage skewering and boiling the nubiles at will and this is all you need to know of the plot. What is of great interest is the presence of lots of MOOSEHEAD and KEITH'S beer, so much so, one has to wonder if the breweries didn't kick in to finance the film. Also of note is this project marks the debut of many future Canadian television regulars including the lovely Cynthia Dale, who I think is the most beautiful woman in the world, who does a fantastic job as a teenie bop screamer. Legend has it the crew were drunk when they filmed the scenes in MADAME MABEL'S LAUNDRETTE and, in a hurry to hit the local pub, left the fake corpse in the dryer where it was discovered a while later by a local doing her laundry. The results were predictable to say the least! Legend also has it the foam pickaxe hangs in the SALTER STREET FILMS office to this day. I honestly am unable to remember how many nights RICHARD C. SLAUGHTER and I sat in the SEAHORSE drinking beer and talking about breaking in to the office and stealing that pickaxe! In the end some chick would always show up with a chunk of hash and we'd end up getting corked and saying fuck it to the plan. Great shots in the mines and of the local town make this a true piece of Canadiana not to be missed.