With Valentine’s Day just over a week away, it’s getting to be that time where we return to Valentine Bluffs with a revisit of *the* Valentine’s horror movie: 1981’s My Bloody Valentine. But the revisit this year will bring some sadness along with it, as we’re bummed to learn this week that star Alf Humphreys has passed away.
The sad news comes courtesy of Sean Clark, Humphreys’ convention agent.
“I am totally heartbroken to hear about the passing of friend & client Alfred “Alf” Humphreys,” Clark wrote on Instagram. “It was Alf who brought me the entire cast of My Bloody Valentine to put together reunions. He really was a lot like his character in the film. Just a super funny and genuinely good human being. This one really hurts. At our last reunion at Bay of Blood in Tampa Bay we all knew he was having issues but it seemed to be signs of early Alzheimer’s. Well apparently it was brain cancer that has taken him away from us. I love you Alf and I hope you are at peace.”
Alf Humphreys played comic relief Howard Landers in My Bloody Valentine, a miner at Hanniger Mines. Throughout his career, Humphreys made a handful of other stops in the genre, appearing in “The Twilight Zone,” “The X-Files,” “Millennium,” “The New Addams Family,” “The Outer Limits,” Final Destination 2 and The Uninvited.
