After an explosion in a mine shaft, the soul survivor becomes insane and kills the supervisors that neglected to wait for him and his crew, due to them leaving early for a Valentines Day Dance. Decades later the town decides to throw it's first Valentines Day Dance since the grizzly murders only to find that he's come back to break some hearts.
Many years prior to when our story starts a group of miners are down in a mine doing a little work on Valentines Day before heading into town for their annual Valentines Day Dance. Anyways the two supervisors that were supposed to wait for the final five remaining workers decide they want to head into town early for the dance and neglect to check the methane levels in the mine, ultimately leading to an explosion that kills all the workers but one, a man named Harry Warden, who goes crazy and institutionalized only to get out a year later and pickaxe the two supervisors that neglected to keep him and his crew safe. After killing the two supervisors he cut out their hearts and put them in heart shaped candy boxes which the town's people later found, to their horror. He left a warning declaring that if there's another Valentines Day Dance ever again that he'll be back to kill everyone he comes in contact with.
In the present, or at least at the time of the movie, the town decides to have it's first dance since the murders, with most of the town, especially the teenagers, in the dark about what happened. After a couple deaths in town with the same M.O. as Harry's killings the dance is cancelled but as we all know, stupid teenagers still want to party. So a group of the teens hold a party at a place near the mine shafts, which ultimately bring the killer in to have a little fun. Who will live? Who will survive?
 
Now the thing about this movie is that mostly it's a love story, which I personally didn't care too much about, at the same time it's also a Valentines movie so I guess it kinda fit in with the theme. Aside from that this movie wasn't really that bad, a couple of the kill scenes were pretty cool and the kill count was pretty high.
With that said this movie really reminds me of a movie I like a lot more, The Prowler. You know, first dance in years since these murders occurred, guy in a black work jumper and a gas mask goes on a killing spree. It seems like one mocked the other, question is which one? See the thing is they both came out the same year, 1981. Either way this movie is pretty cool, definitely a pleasurable watch for 80's horror fans and especially for those who drink Moosehead Beer, the crap is all over this movie, haha.
Get yourself down to the mines and have fun with this movie, it's got heart!
Although I prefer to watch The Prowler a lot more than this movie I still think this is a great flick that shouldn't be missed, especially if you're into pickaxe killing and crappy love stories.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: The Secret
MOVIE YEAR: 1981
DIRECTOR: George Mihalka
WRITING CREDITS: Stephen A. Miller, John Beaird
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 91 min
RATING: 7/10
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