Hulu’s Into The Dark: My Valentine Is A Brilliantly Psychotic Pop Music Story Of Love, Betrayal, And Grisly Murders

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Former pop singer Valentine (Britt Baron) once had everything- the look, the voice, a hot manager, weird stage costumes. Or at least that’s what it looked like, even to her, until the crushing weight of being in a horrifically physically and emotionally abusive relationship with her manager/boyfriend Royal (Benedict Samuel) finally breaks her physically and emotionally (that’s not a coincidence) and she leaves it all to regroup and heal. Meanwhile, said ex begins to groom and rebrand his latest girlfriend into the spitting image, in both looks and sound, of Valentine and introduces her to the world under the name of Trezzure. The new marketing works and Trezzure takes the internet by storm which is absolutely fantastic for business. Except there’s just one little problem, one that won’t go away, or give up on herself.

Valentine decides she’s staging a comeback to expose the truth of what happened and to reclaim her career which puts a serious wrench in Royal’s plans. As her shows and videos gain more traction, the internet loses its collective mind trying to decide who’s the original and whos’s the copy between the singers, creating a gloriously divisive wedge in fandom that gives Royal an advantage in his quest to regain control over Valintine’s career or to stop her completely.

With help from a few overzealous fans, Royal is able to corner Valentine and her guitarist privately after a show to discuss how she may or may not continue singing her originals without involving him, how she may or may not be able to keep her face intact if she doesn’t agree to his demands, and if she could possibly help write Trezzure’s second album because it sucks and he needs help.

Completely reasonable, right? Moving along.

Sadly enough for Royal and his protege, Valentine declines to “acquiesce to his request,” successfully sending Royal off into a psychotic fit and setting the stage for several intentional and unintentional murders to happen, and for a showdown between Valentine and Trezzure of which someone will not walk away from.

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All in all, My Valentine is everything you could ask for in a horror/psychological thriller. Written and directed by Maggie Levine, My Valentine was inspired by pop scandals from over the past decade and does a fantastic job weaving bits of the scandals in with original work to create something truly fantastic. The special effects are brilliant, the storyline is smooth and flows extremely well, the character interactions are solid, and the way they weave the music score in is just wicked cool. There’s no sexual violence, no violence against children, or even presumed violence, and no torture porn but plenty of accidental murder, revenge murder, mind games, and blood to satisfy even the most jaded horror movie fan.

The trailer can be seen right here

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