My Bloody Valentine (1981) | How Woke Is It?

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My Bloody Valentine1981

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What We Think

My Bloody Valentine (1981) is refreshingly free of modern woke tropes. It sticks to classic horror formulas, prioritizing suspense and atmosphere over identity politics. If you’re tired of ideological lectures in your horror, this one’s for you.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

The original 1981 slasher classic barely registers on the woke scale. Character traits and casting appear to be driven by genre conventions of the era, focusing on working-class realism rather than identity politics. There is no sense of forced diversity or ideological messaging.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

Not Woke

What is this?

The film is set in a small mining town, with blue-collar masculinity, traditional gender roles, and community values taking center stage. There's no effort to undermine or lecture about such structures; if anything, it nostalgically reinforces them.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

Not Woke

What is this?

No surprise here: alternative worldviews aren’t central, but there’s also no mockery or heavy-handed villainizing of tradition. The horror is in the killer, not in ideological strawmen. It’s a straightforward, non-preachy film of its genre and era.

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