The Miner

**The Miner** is the main antagonist of the *My Bloody Valentine* films. Originally a man named **Harry Warden** who turned to cannibalism to survive being trapped underground, various other people have taken the title of the Miner, stalking and killing the residents of Valentine Bluffs.

He is portrayed by Peter Cowper in the original 1981 film and by Chris Carnel in the 2009 3D remake.

## History

### My Bloody Valentine

#### First Miner

The original Miner was a miner for the Hanniger Mine named Harry Warden. On the night of Valentine's Day, two supervisors were so eager to get to the dance, that they forgot to check the methane gas levels. As a result, Harry and five other miners were trapped in the Hanniger Mines due to an explosion caused by methane gas. Harry went insane after being forced to eat the other miners to survive. One year after being rescued, he killed the two supervisors with a pickaxe, placed their hearts in boxes of Valentines chocolates, along with a warning to never hold another Valentines dance ever again. He was then committed to Eastfield, where he died fifteen years later.

#### Second Miner

The Miner was the disguise of Axel Palmer. When Axel was younger, he witnessed Harry Warden murder his father and as a result went insane. Twenty years later, the town of Valentine Bluffs tried to hold a Valentine's Day dance, and Axel presumably suffering some kind of mental breakdown, dressed up like Harry Warden and began killing people to get the dance cancelled. After being revealed, he is trapped under debris, but escapes through a tunnel after severing his trapped arm. He then disappears into the tunnel warning everyone that Harry and him will be back and that they're all going to die.

### My Bloody Valentine 3D

#### First Miner

The original Miner was a miner for the Hanniger Mine named Harry Warden, until an explosion trapped him and five others in the mine. Harry killed the others with his pickaxe to conserve oxygen and eventually fell into a coma. Years after he was rescued, he woke up in the hospital and went on a killing spree that resulted in the deaths of twenty-two people. He was about to kill Tom Hanniger when two policemen shot him and he fled into the mines and out an escape hatch. The same two policemen found him bleeding at the escape hatch and killed him. They buried his body and the Sheriff covered it up. Somewhere in between the ten years, Tom Hanniger dug up Harry's body and donned his gas mask.

#### Second Miner

The Miner was the disguise of Tom Hanniger. Tom supposedly forgot to bleed the lines, which resulted in the mine explosion. When Harry Warden woke up from his coma, he attacked Tom and his friends before he was shot and left to die in the mine. As a result, Tom suffered some mental trauma and was locked in a mental institute for seven years. Three years later, when he returned, he started having hallucinations of Harry Warden killing people, when in actuality it was him developing a split personality. After an intense stand off at the Hanniger Mine, Tom slips up by revealing that he knew what the words said above Megan's dead body. Tom begins to hallucinate Harry Warden behind Sarah, but he stops in front of him and disappears, leaving Tom to realize the truth. Harry takes over Tom and fights with Axel and Sarah, which eventually leads to him being shot and caught in an explosion. A rescue miner uncovers Tom, but Tom wakes up and kills him, afterwards donning the rescue miner's outfit and walking out of the mine, implying that he will be back.

## Legend

It all started twenty years ago. It was the night of the Valentine's Day dance at the Union Hall. The biggest event of the year. It'd been a tradition for over one hundred years. Everybody was there, except for seven miners, who were out at the Hanniger Mine. Five of them still down below. Two supervisors were waiting for the men to come up. Anxious to get to the party, they left before the men were safely out, failing to check the methane gas levels in the tunnels down below. The five men were buried alive, as the town continued its party. For six weeks, we dug 'round the clock to try to save them. After we broke through, one man was found alive. I was the one who found him. Harry Warden spent the next year in the state mental hospital. Exactly one year later, on Valentine's Day, he came back to town. He killed the two supervisors who had left their posts the year before. Then he cut out their hearts, and stuffed them into heart-shaped candy boxes. That night at the dance, we found the boxes, blood dripping out the sides. Inside was a note, a warning from Harry, never to hold a Valentine's dance ever again. Every February 14th, Harry comes back to town, his pickaxe stained with blood, waiting in the shadows of the Hanniger Mine, just for someone to kill, should they not heed his warning.