Heart Eyes (2025)

Premise: On one hand there’s a serial killer on the loose… and he’s been targetting couples during Valentine’s Day for a couple of years now, which is kind of sad if you think about it.
Meanwhile, after a quick meet-cute with a hunktastic dude at the coffee shop, our plucky protagonist is about to be fired from her job as a copywriter for a jewelry company! It turns out that in an extremely tone-deaf move she chose to base the whole campaign idea around “love that ends in tragedy”. Tsk, not the best timing. The company hires a freelancer that is apparently a big deal… and guess who the dude is?
Wait, no, I’m not implying the dude’s the killer. I would not spoil the movie so openly - or would I????
Anyhoo, yes, this is a film that tries to go both for slasher and one of those lifetime movies you sleep through after lunch on the weekends.
Under 90 minutes? juuuuust a bit over the mark, but no.
Do they say the title? Yes, they do!

One sentence review:

Rating: Okay, so this reminded me a lot of Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving, a movie that was a really welcome surprise, and I think I could get behind the whole revival of the dumb holiday horror movie. I’d say Thanksgiving was the better movie although they both are really funny, or maybe I was in exactly the right mood to laugh at the bad jokes. The kills are both dumb and over the top, which at times felt welcome considering I’ve watched a lot of movies recently that clearly were very reluctant to keep filming the gory bit. Sure, it doesn’t completely stick the landing (the “romcom” bits sometimes go for a bit too long and sometimes they wink a bit too much at the audience), but I think it’s still a fun watch.
A simple way to improve it: I would have liked more of the horrible horrible boss lady, it’s a pity she’s only in the movie for like two minutes.

Trivia about the IMDb trivia:

Detective Hobbs is played by Devon Sawa, a horror movie legend who’s known for being Casper the friendly ghost and Alex Browning in The Final Destination series.