Heart Eyes (2025)

  I took a little hiatus from posting that turned into a much longer hiatus than I expected, but I'm back now.  And it seems fitting that the first post after an absence would be a horror rom-com.  My favorite and least favorite genres smashed together in defiance of God.  Content warning:  blood, gore, violence

Marketing executive Ally (Olivia Holt) created a morbid ad campaign for her boss's (Michaela Watkins) jewelry company because she was still reeling from a breakup.  Now she has to deal with the hotshot --emphasis on hot-- freelancer her boss brought in to make changes.  Jay (Mason Gooding) is a hopeless romantic and eager to get on Ally's good side, inviting her out on Valentine's Day to the most romantic restaurant in Seattle, and inadvertently making them a target for a serial killer.  The Heart-Eyes Killer has been moving from city to city, killing couples on V-Day in gruesome ways.  Ally and Jay are not a couple, but it's hard to explain the circumstances when you're running for your life from a crossbow-wielding anti-Cupid.

If you like horror and hate rom-coms, this is hilarious.  If you like horror and rom-coms, this is hilarious.  If you hate horror and like rom-coms, this might be too much.  If you hate both, why are you here?  Go back to watching sad character dramas, freak.

The ending does kind of drag on but the majority of this movie is a rollicking good time filled with excessive gore and every rom-com trope known to man.  And for my 90s kids, it's got supporting turns from Jordana Brewster and Devon Sawa.  It's streaming on Netflix.