My Bloody Valentine!

One of the most romantic valentines I ever received was a beautiful gift-wrapped box that opened to reveal a bloody cow's heart. You can't help loving a person who gives you something like that. After all, flowers aren't really forever and candy causes cavities, but a heart is a thing of beauty -- especially when separated from the body it belongs to. Occasionally a movie will allow you to see this little marvel of an organ in all it's gory glory and in honor of Valentine's Day here are several of my favorite flicks where hearts are separated from their owners: Blood Feast (1963), Tales From The Crypt (1972) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Theater of Blood (1973) Mardi Gras Massacre (1978), My Bloody Valentine (1981) Cardiac Arrest (1980) A Night to Dismember (1983), Buried Alive (1979) An American Werewolf In Paris (1997) Wax Mask, (1997), Awake (2007), and Night of the Bloody Apes (1968) which had the good fortune to mix mad doctors, lady wrestlers, killers apes, and actual open-heart surgery footage.
After watching these pulmonary pot boilers, one can only repeat the sage advice given by the Tim Man in The Wizard of Oz: "A heart is not judged by how you love, but how you rip it out of the chest of a loved one..." At least that's what I think he said...