Heart Eyes
monition : Major spoilers ahead for Heart Eyes
Josh Ruben ’s latest revulsion comedyHeart Eyeshas earnedoverwhelmingly positive reviewsfor its well - put to death literary genre portmanteau word , but perhaps the most vivid part of the script was itsshocking tress conclusion , which last bring out the identicalness and motivation of the Heart Eyes Killer . WhileHeart Eyesis profound on both gore and imaginative kills , it develops a surprisingly sweet love story in between the meta read-only storage - com commentary and the sight gags . Critics have applaudedthe cast ofHeart Eyes , particularly its two leads , for walking the assembly line between repugnance and comedy .
The moving picture observe unexampled coworkers Jay ( Mason Gooding ) and Ally ( Olivia Holt ) as they drop Valentine ’s Day night fleeing from a mask sea wolf through the city of Seattle . In the course of action of their ongoing terror , they find common primer despite their contradictory attitude towards Romance language , resulting in the ontogenesis of real feelings for each other . Unsurprisingly , they deal to survive the night so that their newfound relationship has the chance to continue , but only after they pick up the real identity of the Heart Eyes Killer .
The Origin & Backstory Of The Heart Eyes Killer
The Killer Known As HEK Was Already Two Years Into His Reign Of Terror
Heart Eyescleverly does n’t introduce the Heart Eyes Killer as some mystic entity that nobody believes in , like many slasher movies have done before . When the movie opens in Seattle , the country is all too aware that the " HEK " serial killer has mow down pair on Valentine ’s daylight the last two age . While he originally began his violent disorder on the East Coast , drink down couples in Boston and Philadelphia previously , he appear in Seattle for his third Valentine ’s Day , and quickly murders a couple at a winery and a health spa , along with anyone who gets in his way in the process .
Heart Eyes - Key Details
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February 7th , 2025
Josh Ruben
97 minutes
$ 18 million
82 %
63
The grampus had been captured with photograph and security television camera footage , so the ecumenical world knew what he looks like and how he operates well before the movie ’s main story start . In fact , the Heart Eyes Killer has a sickly dedicated fanbase , with multitude wear makeshift masquerade and a cultus social medium observe . It attain the emoji - eyed slasher somewhat singular in modern horror , and give him an tot up layer of pragmatism ; that ’s reasonably much exactly how social media in the actual world would respond to a gimmicky , famous serial killer .
The First Heart Eyes Killer Is Just A Fanboy
The 3rd Person To Act As HEK Was An Eager Recruit
That furor following is actually responsible for some of the Heart Eyes Killer ’s murders , as it ’s revealed that the mask is wear by multiple people . One of whom is a man named Eli , who is later explained to just be a " fanboy " of the real Heart Eyes Killer . He ’s recruited when the Heart Eyes Killer comes to Seattle , and it ’s really Eli who is creditworthy for the film ’s opening scene murders at the winery , along with the arrow that the cab driver who brought Ally and Jay to Ally ’s flat claim to the face .
Eli is the version of the Heart Eyes Killer that stalks Jay and Ally through the drive - in at the movie ’s ( fake ) climax , and who they finally incapacitate and drink down . While not all the switches between Heart Eyes Killers are identify , it ’s clear that the transitions are well - orchestrated to make it seem like it ’s one someone doing all the violent death , signify thatEli was probably inscribe free-base on his pre - existent cognition of the Heart Eyes Killer ’s modus operandi .
Detective Shaw & Her Husband Are The Real Heart Eyes Killer
Jordana Brewster’s Character Posed As A Detective Hunting HEK
After Jay and Ally toss off Eli , the literal Heart Eyes Killer , or Killers , are expose : Jordana Brewster ’s character Detective Shaw and her married man , David . Alongside her partner , Detective Hobbs ( played by Devon Sawa),Shaw manage to hide her connection to the Heart Eyes Killer by lay as one of the detectives go after him . Heart Eyesdoes a unspoilt problem hiding the reveal , with the only existent clues being the marriage ring found at the scene of the wine maker murders twin Detective Shaw ’s initial , and David impersonate as an IT guy at the Seattle Police Department where HEK show up .
The murderous husband and wife ultimately let on themselves to Ally and Jaywhen they snatch Jay and force Ally to St. Valentine ’s Chapel in Seattle where they claim they were married ten years originally . While they attempt to force Ally to face her own wild-eyed feeling ( or lack thereof ) for Jay , the untried , almost - twosome manage to outmaneuver and overpower Detective Shaw and David , and kill them both in appropriately Valentine ’s Day - related manner .
Why Detective Shaw & Her Husband Became The Heart Eyes Killer
They Connected Based On A Shared Passion For Murder
In a satirical shot at horror picture , David and Detective Shaw ’s motivation is n’t based in some tortuous system of logic establish on revenge against a world that has treated them unjustly or their own past scorned love lives . They met class ago in a chatroom andbonded over their shared affinity for murder , literally explaining that murder is their passion language . As noted by a detective at the beginning ofHeart Eyesand duplicate by the Shaws in the picture ’s coming , " Everybody ’s got a fetish . " David and Detective Shaw ’s happen to be killing couples on Valentine ’s Day .
How The Heart Eyes Killer Can Return In A Sequel
HEK Already Has Fans, So A Copycat Killer Makes Sense
With how excellent the reviews ofHeart Eyeshave been , along with a project box office total that should completely justify the pic ’s modest output cost , a sequel seems all but inevitable . luckily , the base has already been laid for how the Heart Eyes Killer can returndespite all three people who were responsible for for the slasher ’s creation ending the pic in a puddle of their own blood . It ’s potential that neither Mason Gooding nor Olivia Holt will return for a subsequence , but the Heart Eyes Killer can experience again due to the culture surrounding the fibre .
AHeart Eyessequel could explore the murders of a copycat orca , or the greater Heart Eyes Killer fan culture in general .
The relationship between Detective Shaw and her hubby began in an on-line chat room , where somehow the conversation find its way to their shared passion of sick murder . It stands to reason that the internet is probably how they found Eli , who was a certified fanboy of the Heart Eyes Killer before donning the masque himself . With all three characters drained , with their identities break , they will almost certainly barrack copycat killer across the country . AHeart Eyessequel could explore the murder of one of these copycats , or the greater Heart Eyes Killer fan culture in worldwide .
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