The Miner (character)

The Miner
'My Bloody Valentine' character
File:The Miner.jpg
First appearance	My Bloody Valentine
Portrayed by	Peter Cowper
In-universe information
Gender	Male
Real name	Harry Warden

The Miner is the antagonist of the My Bloody Valentine series. The Miner first appeared in My Bloody Valentine (1981), before appearing once again in My Bloody Valentine 3D.

Background

In My Bloody Valentine (1981) Harry Warden was just an ordinary man, working in the Hanniger Mine in the town of Valentine Bluffs, Nova Scotia. He was one of five miners working down in the mine on the night of February 14, 1961, and two supervisors were waiting for him & his co-workers to come up. The supervisors left their posts before the men were safely out, in order to get to the town's annual Valentine's dance. They had also failed to check for dangerous levels of methane gas, and when one of Warden's co-workers lit a match, the methane exploded, causing a cave-in and burying Harry Warden and the others alive. For six weeks, other miners dug around the clock to try to rescue the men. Only Harry Warden was fund alive; he had resorted to cannibalism of his dead co-workers in order to survive. After one year in a mental institute, Warden returned to Valentine Bluffs - killing the two supervisors who had abandoned the men to their fate the previous year, cutting out their hearts & putting them in candy boxes, then delivering them to the dance. An ominous warning threatened more carnage if a Valentine's dance was ever held again. Twenty years after that, it appears Harry Warden has come back...to seek vengeance on a group of young adults holding a party at the Hanniger mine. Many of The Miner's characteristics in the original film are present in the remake.