Heart Eyes
Directed by Josh RubenWhen the "Heart Eyes Killer" strikes Seattle, a pair of co-workers pulling overtime on Valentine's Day are mistaken for a couple by the elusive couple-hunting killer. Now, they must spend the most romantic night of the year running for their lives.
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- RyezooFebruary 6, 2025It’s not revolutionizing the wheel, but it is some campy fun. Laughed several times and some physical humor that played well. The characters do nothing for more me, some really bad dialogue, and a cringey ending. Still it’s worth of watch if your into slashers and I would return for a sequel.
- parcolanJuly 17, 2025Kind of OK for one time watch but still crap
- Kevin WardJuly 1, 2025This was kind of a let down even if I appreciate the earnest mashup of a romcom and a slasher. I wasn’t actually expecting it to be a legit romcom so that was refreshingly original. I liked some of the gruesome kills even if they leaned pretty heavy into CG for some of the more gruesome ones. Just didn’t really care for the characters and just never really bought into the narrative direction—the killer/motivations seemed very stupid. Maybe I’ll have more fun on rewatch, but I was definitely disappointed. Too bad because we don’t get many movies set in Seattle anymore.
- C0XYPLEXJune 15, 2025Want to waste your time watching an unrealistic love story paired with a terrible horror story, well this is it. Pretty sure AI was used to come up with this terrible plot.
- ZokkiieJune 6, 2025This is a weird but fun mix of horror and rom-com. The idea of a killer going after couples on Valentine’s Day is cool, and the two leads have good chemistry. It’s not super scary or super funny, but it’s entertaining enough. Not perfect, but a fun watch if you’re into slashers with a twist.
- gradientorangeApril 27, 2025this is not a perfect movie. but honestly, what is???? i’m giving this 5 stars because i had a blast watching this and it’s easily one of my favorite modern horror movies of all time. an absolutely mind blowing perfect mix of Rom-Com and Slasher. i couldn’t get enough. i really hope sequels are produced also, i would do anything for mason gooding. my god
- Hipster ZOMBIEMarch 10, 2025Nothing says happy Valentines Day like some blood guts and gore. Heart Eyes is a horror-romantic comedy that attempts to merge the slasher and rom-com genres into a unique Valentine’s Day bloodbath. Directed by Josh Ruben, the film follows a jaded marketing executive, Ally (Olivia Holt), who finds herself caught in a twisted game of love and death alongside her corporate rival-turned-reluctant-romantic-partner, Jay (Mason Gooding), as they evade a masked serial killer known as the Heart Eyes Killer (HEK). HEK has a striking mask that has glowing red heart cut outs for eyes. The visual is stunning and very memorable. The film does a fine job of walking the line between slasher film and rom-com, never delving too much into either. The gags are funny and the kills are quite gruesome. An overall fun experience that won’t change your outlook on life but is still worth a watch.
- jackmeatMay 12, 2025My quick rating - 5.7/10. Heart Eyes is one of those movies that you forget about on your watchlist until the algorithm politely (and aggressively) reminds you, “Hey, remember this one with the guy stabbing lovers in the face?” And so, out of curiosity and mild guilt, you hit play. To its credit, this slasher doesn’t waste time—no slow-burn nonsense here. Within the first five minutes, somebody’s already dying, and not in a metaphorical, “they didn’t text back” kind of way. No, this is classic stabby-stabby Valentine’s Day horror, and for a moment, it feels like we’re about to get a bloody little gem. And then the movie decides to take a detour. A long one. For about thirty minutes, Heart Eyes becomes something like Clueless crash-landing into Anyone But You, if those movies had been hijacked by someone who watched exactly half of Scream and thought, “I could do that, but what if it was also kind of a Hallmark movie?” Our two leads, who are not a couple, and remind us of that more often than the killer needs, are mistaken as romantic partners by the so-called “Heart Eyes Killer,” who has a flair for symbolism and stabbing anyone who celebrates love in public. After another attack jolts the movie awake, we enter a long and overly dramatic interlude about how maybe—just maybe—the cops arrested the wrong guy. Whoopsie-daisy. The tension dips, the momentum stumbles, and you might find yourself scrolling your phone until the blood starts flowing again. Fortunately, once the HEK starts slashing his way through a drive-in like it’s his personal buffet of basic couples, Heart Eyes remembers what kind of movie it should’ve been all along. There’s some genuinely fun, gory chaos here, and a few moments of dark comedy that actually land. But by that point, we’ve also seen so many bafflingly stupid character decisions—guns dropped, doors left open, hiding literally anywhere else but under the table—that it's hard not to root for the killer out of sheer frustration. Seattle itself is oddly magical in this film: bustling and crowded one second, then completely empty the next, like the city flips between realities every time the camera cuts. Spooky? Sure. Convenient for chase scenes? Absolutely. Josh Ruben, who previously gave us the underappreciated Werewolves Within, wrangles this messy mix into something watchable, but just barely. The kills are creatively brutal, and the final act offers enough blood-splattered Valentine carnage to partially redeem the wishy-washy tone. Still, it’s hard to shake the feeling that Heart Eyes could’ve been so much more if it had picked a lane and stayed in it. Watch it for the kills. Tolerate the rest. And maybe hold off on announcing your relationship status in public—just in case HEK is still out there. Love means never having to say you’re sorry... for dropping the gun again.
- djcozmoApril 27, 2025Mediocre slasher flick. Couldn’t decide if it wanted to be funny or horror. Overall, whack.
- rg9400March 8, 2025Heart Eyes is an interesting experiment. Part romcom and part slasher thriller, the movie tries to blend the two together to create a fun Valentine's Day horror movie. The result is fairly mixed. The killer's identity is extremely predictable, with it being very easy to figure out which ones are red herrings. When the reveal is done, it doesn't feel very gratifying and ends up actually feeling very cheesy. The set pieces actually look pretty cool with some dramatic imagery at times, but the problem is that there simply are not many of them in the movie. The reason is that the movie tries to balance its romcom genre with the horror, and those two contrasting tropes tend to result in very distinct separations within the movie. What I mean by that is that instead of being able to blend the two genres together, the approach the movie takes is to create what feels like two separate movies and alternate between them. If I had to estimate, the romcom part probably eats up more screentime as well. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding and did chuckle at times, but when the movie tried to build this relationship between the two, it just never really landed for me. It felt very much like insta-love, and we still ended up getting some half-baked backstory to try to make it feel more meaningful even though it caused the movie to come to a screeching halt. The ending really reflects how much the movie wants to be this romance even though that is its weakest element by far. I think the movie would have been a lot better had it focused more on the comedy and horror elements or if it was able to fully blend in the romance into the other two instead of keeping it so disparate. In particular, I think the movie should have had a lot more kills and setpieces because those were genuinely fun. There's some good stuff in this movie, but also a lot of really boring stuff.
- shirazesatApril 26, 2025I love horrors, thrillers and comedies in equal measure. This tried to be all three and, I think, failed.
- JarheadApril 18, 2025Valentine Day slasher movie date with the wife, wife loved it. For a slasher movie, it kept you guessing til the end. Fun movie.
- Doc HolidaeApril 3, 2025It felt a bit too odd for my taste.. It seemed like it was trying too hard to be sarcastically funny, but instead, it came off as strange. And the ending was awful.
- Jacob O’NealMarch 21, 2025What happens when you mix bad Hallmark romantic comedies with every post-Scream horror movie trope, with just a sprinkling of wokeness and bad jokes? You get Heart Eyes, a movie directed by Josh Ruben, best known for the better than expected Scare Me and Werewolves Within. It was co-written by Christopher Landon, writer director and son of Michael Landon. Normally I like his stuff. Sure, he’s made some stuff that was lower quality, but I liked Happy Death Day and Freaky a lot. So I was actually looking forward to this movie. Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding star as the two people with the “Meet Cute” story that you want to see together, but obstacles get in the way. In this case that is the Heart Eyes Killer (HEK for short) who saw them in the least passionate kiss ever put on screen. This movie had stiff and stilted dialogue, terrible characters and little to no chemistry between anyone in the film. People like Devon Sawa and Jordana Brewster couldn’t save it. The movie somehow manages to fall into every single cliche of romantic comedies and slasher movies. It felt like they had a checklist they were ticking off that the Paul Rudd and Amy Pohler movie They Came Together spoofed. Then they used Scream as the horror model. But Scream was meta and showed the tropes to everyone, pulling back the curtain and telling the world we needed something new in horror, not just using Scream as the new template. There is a moment near the end of the film when Holt is on the phone with her obnoxious friend who tells her to go to the airport and get her man by throwing romcom titles into her monologue. It was such a cringeworthy moment that made me almost turn the film off. I was insulted that anyone would think this was a good idea to make into a movie. But what was it? Is it the directing, the cast, the script? What made it bad? The acting wasn’t terrible. The directing was good on a technical level. The script could have been better with a better cast and crew, I suppose. I think it was just a perfect storm of poor choices. Don’t waste your time.
- RickMarch 4, 2025My favorite romcom slasher!
