Horror fans rave over ‘blood-soaked’ slasher rom-com with 85% Rotten Tomatoes score

A caller romantic, gory, terrifying fearfulness movie has landed successful cinemas with a immense Rotten Tomatoes score, conscionable successful clip for Valentine’s Day.

Heart Eyes follows precocious azygous Ally (Olivia Holt) who is struggling astatine enactment erstwhile she’s forced to enactment with freelancer Jay (Mason Gooding) to hole an ill-timed selling campaign.

Unfortunately for the pair, they are mistaken for a mates by the Heart Eyes Killer – a masked serial murderer who targets couples celebrating the astir love-filled clip of the twelvemonth – and look a deadly contention to survive.

Olivia and Scream prima Mason pb the star-studded formed alongside Jordana Brewster, Devon Sawa, Michaela Watkins and Gigi Zumbado, portion Josh Ruben serves arsenic director.

The scare-fest landed successful cinemas successful the US today, earlier it comes to the UK connected February 14.

It already commands an awesome 85% Rotten Tomatoes score from critics, who branded it a ‘blood soaked, campy nightmare’ and the cleanable premix of Scream and 10 Things I Hate About You.

FlickDirect’s Allison Rose shared: ‘Heart Eyes fuses clever drama and brutal gore to present the cleanable Valentine’s Day fearfulness movie for a thrilling day nighttime experience.’

‘Heart Eyes seems destined to go a Valentine’s Day favorite, that uncommon fearfulness movie with a large and charming emotion story, and that adjacent rarer romanticist drama with a large and savage serial killer,’ The Wrap’s William Bibbiani agreed.

Jen Yamato of the Washington Post praised: ‘Directing this lively day nighttime slash-’em-up… Ruben wields the conventions of rom-coms and retro slashers similar weapons, spilling humor and guts galore portion besides mounting the temper for love.’

As Richard Crouse added: ‘Is it a convulsive rom com? Yup. Is it a googly-eyed slasher flick? Also correct.

‘Director Josh Ruben has throws teen comedy, rom coms and slasher flicks into a blender, and whips up a tasty cocktail of Scream and 10 Things I Hate About You.’

The authoritative synopsis reads: ‘For the past respective years, the Heart Eyes Killer has wreaked havoc connected Valentine’s Day by stalking and murdering romanticist couples. This Valentine’s Day, nary mates is safe…’

Mason, who famously saw disconnected Ghostface doubly successful Scream, was intelligibly not enactment disconnected by the slasher genre and jumped astatine the accidental of filming yet different fearfulness movie.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, helium described Heart Eyes arsenic a ‘rom-com that gets hijacked by a horror’.

‘For a while, I felt insecure astir the thought that my rom-com tendencies — what tries to marque a quality likable oregon affable — would marque the fearfulness bits not onshore arsenic well,’ helium said.

‘But astatine the extremity of the day, you person to spot your director. I person to spot the information that Olivia’s a seasoned vet and unthinkable successful her ain right.’ 

Touching connected whether the Heart Eyes Killer could go a caller Valentine’s Day contented with aboriginal instalments, helium added: ‘I anticipation so. That’s the goal.

‘That’d beryllium fun. [Would] emotion to bash it again. Any accidental to enactment with Olivia is 1 I’m going to instrumentality 10 times retired of 10. Josh, arsenic well.’

Heart Eyes is successful cinemas present successful the US, and volition beryllium released successful the UK connected February 14.

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