Heart Eyes Is Coming to Slash Up Valentine’s Day

Nothing excites a maniac much than a holiday—it each started with Black Christmas and Halloween, and present there’s a corresponding fearfulness movie to spell with nearly each important calendar page, including the caller likes of Thanksgiving‘s slash-happy Pilgrim and Art the Clown’s Santa mayhem successful Terrifier 3. Valentine’s Day has agelong been a favourite people connected this list, but you don’t person to hold for threats of yet different My Bloody Valentine remake. Heart Eyes is astir here!

Directed by Josh Ruben (Werewolves Within), and co-written by Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Freaky), Michael Kennedy (It’s a Wonderful Knife, Freaky), and Phillip Murphy, Heart Eyes is astir a slayer whose disguise looks similar you-know-which emoji, and who targets couples connected you-know-which romanticist occasion.

As you tin ascertain from those progressive down the camera—there’s decidedly gonna beryllium a assemblage count, but you tin number connected immoderate humor, too. Check retired the archetypal trailer here:

Why yes, that is simply a brace of 1990s fearfulness veterans you spot there: Jordana Brewster, who made her large surface debut successful 1998’s The Faculty earlier entering the Fast and Furious beingness (she was besides successful 2006’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning), and Devon Sawa, who was already a genre icon for Final Destination and Idle Hands (and Casper!) earlier his caller character-hopping crook connected the Chucky TV series.

Elsewhere successful the formed are 2 younger but already acquainted fearfulness favorites: Mason Gooding (who survived the 2 astir caller Scream films) and Olivia Holt (1980s time-travel communicative Totally Killer). There besides appears to beryllium a satisfying array of knives slamming done doors and throats being punctured… positive immoderate cutesy date-night settings gone horribly incorrect (a carousel, a drive-in movie).

Happy Valentine’s Day! Don’t get killed, each right? Will you beryllium checking retired Heart Eyes erstwhile it hits theaters February 7?

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