Harry Warden

Harry Warden
My Bloody Valentine character
Harry in the opening scene of My Bloody Valentine (1981)
Created by	Stephen Miller
Portrayed by	Peter Cowper
Classification	Mass murderer
Signature weapon	Pick axe

Harry Warden is a character from the My Bloody Valentine films. He appears in George Mihalka's My Bloody Valentine and Patrick Lussier's My Bloody Valentine 3D as one of the main antagonists. Despite the My Bloody Valentine films not launching a franchise, Harry Warden has gained a cult status in the horror genre despite only appearing in two films. In the films, the killers including Warden, presume the identity of The Miner.

In the original My Bloody Valentine, Harry first appears inside a mine shaft, with a female miner that performs a strip tease and fondles with his breathing tube. Harry brutally kills her with a mining pick. When the town's police chief Jake Newby receives an anonymous box of Valentine chocolates containing a human heart and a note warning that murders will begin if the dance proceeds, he checks the mental institution where Harry Warden was incarcerated, but they have no record of him. It is later revealed that the murders were done by the young miner Axel who witnessed his father (being one of the supervisors) being murdered by Harry Warden when he was a child and was since traumatized by the event ever since.

In My Bloody Valentine 3D, on the Valentine's Day of 1997, a cave-in on the north side of a Hanninger mine trapped six miners. Several days later, rescue teams found five dead miners and Harry Warden, who survived by killing the other miners with a pickaxe, allowing himself to breathe. Exactly one year later, Warden wakes from his coma in the hospital, and goes on a murderous rampage. Soon after, Sheriff Burke arrives, finding multiple mutilated bodies and the heart of a nurse inside a candy box. Burke assumes that Warden had awoken from his coma and attempts to figure out where he's headed. Meanwhile, a party is thrown at the abandoned mine shaft that was the site of the disaster, attended by many teens. After murdering several of the teens, and before he can murder Tom (the last teen in the mine), Warden is shot by Burke. Ten years later, murders begin happening again leading to speculation that Warden is back. It is revealed that Tom is the killer after developing a split personality from his encounter with Warden.