Heart Eyes (2025)

Resurrecting the 1980s slasher, we have this romantic horror comedy about a killer who kills couples on Valentine's Day.

The killer in question wears a strange mask with two hearts in the eye area, which gives the film its title.

Ally and Jay work in an advertising agency, the rivalry between them is evident, by chance on Valentine's Day they meet for dinner together for work reasons, something that “Heart eyes” interprets that they are a couple and puts them in the crosshairs of their bloody targets. The night will turn into hell for them.

It is written by Phillip Murphy, Christopher Landon and Michael Kennedy, directed Josh Ruben and among the actors we have Olivia Holt as Ally McCabe and Mason Gooding as Jay Simmons. Detective Hobbs is played by Devon Sawa, well known in horror films and Jordana Wrewster is Detective Shaw.

The great success of the film is to have two protagonists with an extraordinary chemistry that transcend the screen and make you live pure fun and even believe the tale of love that hides the film behind the blood.

Both Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding carry the whole movie with their charisma and their ability to go from romance to comedy without any stretch, making every moment they give us on screen pure fun.

This chemistry allows us to highlight the work of its director, who gives equal weight to romance and horror in this perfect fusion of genres where the gore is the faithful romance with which we get hooked and its shocking and funny deaths are everything.

From now on, one of the biggest surprises of the year, and the saddest thing of all is that this New Zealand film, if it had been released on Netflix, everyone would be talking about it and would have made much more noise, but as the studio and distributors have not known what to do with it, not trusting their product, it will go completely unnoticed, when it is a horror proposal that is worth it.