There’s always been a deep irony that follows holiday horror films. Typically, we associate holidays like Christmas and Valentine’s Day with whimsical joy, togetherness, and romance. Slapping the horror genre on saccharine happiness feels like kicking someone while their back is turned mid-hug.

On the other end of the spectrum, haters of the holidays will feel right at home with holiday horror. If that’s the case for you, then you owe it to yourself to give My Bloody Valentine a try now that it's free to stream on Pluto TV.

Directed by George Mihalka with a screenplay by John Beaird, My Bloody Valentine takes place in the small mining town of Valentine Bluffs. Two decades before the movie begins, two supervisors working at the mine leave early to attend a Valentine’s Day party in town, while, unbeknownst to them, a cave collapse strands the remaining group of men. A year after the collapse, the only survivor gets his revenge. He murders those two supervisors and leaves their hearts in a box of Valentine’s Day chocolate with a warning for the town: If they ever host a Valentine’s Day dance again, he’ll return to killing.

In the present day, a group of miners and their girlfriends plan to do just that. Much like other holiday slashers before it, such as the genre-defining Halloween , My Bloody Valentine grapples with the notion of a community changed by death and struggling to move on. When a young Michael Myers kills his sister, the Myers family home becomes the town’s very own boogeyman that the locals refuse to acknowledge until Myers returns to the scene of the crime.

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