
In a playful yet biting manner, the screenplay penned by Philip Murphy, Michael Kennedy, and Christopher Landon (notably the director of the witty slasher “Happy Death Day”) maintains a humorous tone. The objective of this movie, titled “Heart Eyes,” is twofold: it aims to lampoon romantic comedies and extract the last drop from slasher movie tropes. For the past three Februaries, an unidentified serial killer, infamously known as the Heart Eyes Killer due to emoji-shaped holes in his mask, has gruesomely murdered couples in Boston, Philadelphia, and Seattle, where this story unfolds.