Heart Eyes

This is not a horror film.

This is a romcom with slasher elements but the kills are presented in a very goofy way. The main actress is Julia Stiles reincarnated in Gen Z and the twenty-somethings featured in the story evoke silly teen comedies of the 2000s. The darkest thing about this movie was the dark cyan color grading--also found in abundance in the 2000s in teen horrors. The dialogue and characters are cartoonish, the protagonist is invincible even in her juvenile and clumsy silliness, and the movie, admittedly, is successful in creating an odd fusion romcom with horror but it only works if you were expecting Bring It On, Not Another Teen Movie, or Scary Movie. But sprinkle in a few funny killings.

It's also by SONY. Do with that what you will.

The first and last kills would probably be the only interesting thing to a viewer expecting a horror movie. Toss the rest.

Heart Eyes was a good attempt at a holiday themed horror movie, but ultimately didn't know what it wanted to be. A romantic comedy mixed with horror elements seems like an interesting idea, but unfortunately ended up dull. Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding are great in their roles and the character design for the Heart Eyes Killer was cool. The story was a little bit all over the place and doesn't have much of a payoff in the end. The kills were fun and creative, but usually done for laughs. Overall, if you are looking for a silly and dumb horror movie for a Valentine's Day date night, Heart Eyes is a good choice.

Do not expect cinematic genius.

Do not expect Oscar worthy writing, acting or even costuming.

Do not expect to be scared, there wasn't any visual only mild suspense.

Do expect to cringe at some awkward meet-cute moments.

Do expect campy gore that isn't realistic in the slightest.

Do expect to laugh out loud because you just didn't expect something so predictable to be sort of refreshing.

I seriously guffawed at this well paced and goofy movie.

It was awkwardly cute. As if a Hallmark movie fell in love with a Jason Voorhees obsessed teenager and they wrote a movie about it. I think it only got an R rating because of the swearing and perhaps the visual of a sex toy. There wasn't any visual sex (but there is audible thrown in for gross factor) or nudity in this film.

As we were leaving the theater, I thought to myself "that was a fun movie!". It wasn't serious. There was not a lot of thinking involved. I just enjoyed being on a break from reality. I was simply entertained from the beginning until the credits.

This movie starts off strong with 5 kills in first 5-10 minutes that were cool and fun. Then turns into a corny "love story" with super scripted story lines that is drawn out for 30-40 minutes with no action. The storyline is predictable and plays out like a wanna be I know what you did last summer type of vibe with empty police stations and a drive in movie theater playing 60s movies...yeah sure..🙄 the comedy of the movies misses and story sucks. This movie is lame af. Don't waste your time seeing this in the theater, wait until it streams but I don't see it getting picked up beyond Tubi......

No couple is safe on Valentine's day, the Heart eyes killer, known by the news and broadcasters as The HEK, relentlessly kills unsuspecting couples.

I was seriously looking forward to this, they made it look quite something in the trailers, I was expecting something along the lines of Scream, what I wasn't expecting was a film that had horror elements, but was 70% romcom, I'm not one hundred percent sure it worked.

It definitely deserves a couple of points for originality, I can't think of many films that have emade me laugh and bad a couple of decent jump scares. The restaurant scene also made me chuckle, amusing to see the man being objectified, it was funny.

If they'd done less of the soppy stuff and more scares, it would have worked a whole lot better, there were essentially three big scare scenes, you couldn't really blame the killer going after that awful couple at the start.

Interesting, if flawed.

6/10.