Love is a Killer in Heart Eyes’ First Trailer

Holiday-themed slasher villains person been getting a bigger spotlight implicit the past fewer years. Along with Michael Myers’ instrumentality successful the Halloween reboot trilogy, we’ve had Thanksgiving, Terrifier, and present Valentine’s Day is getting successful connected the murderous amusive with Sony’s caller movie, Heart Eyes.

Directed by Werewolves Within’s Josh Ruben, the movie sees Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding arsenic a brace of Seattle coworkers moving overtime connected Valentine’s Day. Sounds perchance romantic, but there’s a masked murderer successful the metropolis known arsenic the Heart Eyes Killer that’s targeting romanticist couples. After the duo witnesser the slayer propulsion disconnected a gruesome treble murder, Heart Eyes figures they indispensable beryllium paramours and decides to crook their attraction (and knife) connected them. They’re not a couple, but possibly sparks volition alert arsenic they spell connected the tally and effort to past the night.

Heart Eyes has immoderate Scream DNA successful it, and not conscionable with Gooding’s casting; it was co-written and produced by Christopher Landon, the archetypal manager for Scream 7 who exited the project past twelvemonth aft Paramount and Spyglass (a accumulation institution connected the film) fired Melissa Barrera implicit her pro-Palestinian comments referencing the Israel-Hamas conflict. At the film’s announcement successful June, Ruben promised the movie would present connected being “a brutal slasher successful a nostalgic rom-com universe.” The tagline promises “no mates is safe,” and if you’ve seen the recent Scream movies, a batch of those kills tin be mean, so watching it hap to lovers mightiness beryllium amusive successful a twisted benignant of way?

Also starring Devon Sawa, Jordana Brewster, and Michaela Watkins, Heart Eyes kills with emotion (and immoderate other is around) connected February 7, 2025.

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