“The very minimal slasher description in the script was something to the effect of ‘a twisted version of the heart eyes emoji,'” Ruben said. “So then you go to legends like Tony Gardner ...

In the winking rom-com slasher “Heart Eyes,” a serial murderer in a mask that resembles a demented emoji thrives on offing lovebirds in brutal, punny fashion. Take one look at the obnoxious ...

It comes as no surprise that his follow-up would do the same thing for another underwhelming subgenre. “Heart Eyes” raises the bar for emoji movies, which sounds like faint praise since “The Emoji ...

As with its personality-free killer, whose mask has two glowing heart eyes—thereby making him a murderous emoji—it’s a drearily generic affair. On a Seattle winery’s hillside overlooking a misty ...

Of course, that massage was accompanied by the heart eyes emoji. This is the inspiration for the killer's mask in the film. Heart Eyes gleefully ruins Valentine's Day on February 7, 2025 ...

“It was always in the script that it would be some sort of twisted version of the heart eyes emoji, which my shoulders went up a bit at the prospect of what that might be,” he said.