Director Holds Out Hope for 'Bloody Valentine' Sequel

Last month, director Patrick Lussier said that Lionsgate had zero interest in a sequel to My Bloody Valentine. No offense meant to Lionsgate - or maybe there is - but that's just a stupid move. This is a company that has a very hard time manufacturing hits, and Valentine more than tripled its budget. You give that movie a sequel. But that was last month and now Lussier is softening his stance. "I think right now, they’ll wait to see how it does on DVD," he tells Arrow in the Head. "It’s not something they want to do right this instant but it may be something they want to do down the road.” Lussier says he'd jump at the chance to return to the franchise, and he even has part two all mapped out. "The sequel that we wanted to do is a stronger story than the original," Lussier admits. "Even though you know who the killer is, it has twists and turns that you don't expect, even knowing who the killer is."

"There is a whole, kind of, getting into his mythology of how he became what he became. And then using that, you discover that there are things that are eluded [sic] to in the first one that you don't have all the answers for. Particularly with the killer going to psychiatric institute and how did he get let out of that facility."

Here are the reasons to do this movie if you're Lionsgate, which you're not, because that studio seems to be completely isolated from the rest of the world. This is a studio that really only makes money off franchises; Saw and Tyler Perry movies comprise of the top ten movies in Lionsgate's history. On top of that, I'd be surprised if more people who saw it hated it than liked it. Only three movies in the top ten last weekend had a higher score on Rotten Tomatoes, so critics even dug it. How could an easier-to-sell sequel not be a bigger hit, or at least perform comparably, which is to say, quite a bit better than the majority of major releases in a given year? Some people just can't stand success, I guess.