Written by Phillip Murphy And Christopher Landon And Michael Kennedy
Directed by Josh Ruben
Ally (to a Valentine's statue): "Your fucking day sucks."
I missed this during the week of Valentine's Day, which would've been the perfect week for this. Good thing I had those My Bloody Valentine movies during that week. Anyways, I've caught up with this one and there was fun to be had.
In horror, we have serial killers killing for all kinds of reasons and here, the Heart Eyes Killer, aka HEK just enjoyed killing couples, especially the more obnoxious ones and after killing in two different states, they've taken their spree to Seattle for 2025 on a particular day. Can you guess which one?
Meanwhile, newly pitch designed Ally McCabe (Olivia Holt) thought that a doomed love campaign was the way to go and that stirred the ire of her boss, Crystal Cane (Michaela Watkins). It also meant the arrival of Corporate Cupid hunk Jay Simmons (Mason Gooding) to save the day for the assignment.
Yup, this movie wants to be the horror version of a Hallmark romcom so badly and it's a meeting of world that to it's credit did somewhat work here. Both Jay and Ally go through the predictable tropes in the romcom genre while also having to deal with the horror side of things.
This meant becoming a target for Heart Eyes, in spite of their insistence of not being a couple. It also meant having an unhelpful detective duo with Zek Hobbs (Devon Sawa) and Jeanette Shaw (Jordana Brewster) but like in most horror films, they were of no help, albeit for seperate reasons. Oh and one of them got a rather grisly ending.
Anyways the killer third act had well, three killers as Heart Eyes. There was Jeanette and her husband/IT guy David (Yoson An) and their patsy, Eli with Jay being the distressed dude and Ally having to kick ass and save the day. I mean, it's a good third act that nearly wrapped everything up with Jay and Ally actually becoming a couple by the end of the movie.
- A post credit scene had Ally's co-worker, Monica (Gigi Zumbado) pretend to be Heart Eyes. There's a sequel set up here too.
- With characters called Hobbs and Shaw, of course there was a reference to that particular franchise.
- Standout music: Lonestar's Amazed and Ginuwine's Pony.
- Chronology: Valentine's Day 2025 in Seattle. Heart Eyes has been killing couples since 2023.
Heart Eyes did work a fun merging of Hallmark romcom meets horror film and there's an undeniably good chemistry between Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding. The actual killer mask with heart eyes was a good visual with some decent kills. It's an entertaining romp.
Rating: 7 out of 10
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