Heart Eyes

Heart Eyes is a 2025 American horror film.^[1]^[2] The film was released on February 7, 2025.

Premise[]

“	When the Heart Eyes Killer strikes Seattle, a pair of co-workers pulling overtime on Valentine’s Day are mistaken for a couple by the elusive couple-hunting killer. Now they must spend the most romantic night of the year running for their lives.	„
	― Heart Eyes

Plot[]

For the past few years, a serial killer known as Heart Eyes or the "HEK" has moved from different cities killing multiple couples on Valentine's Day. In the present year, he moves to Seattle and murders a couple at a winery and then at a spa. Detectives Jeanette Shaw and her partner Hobbs are out on the case and find a wedding ring engraved with the initials J.S. at the winery.

In Seattle, Ally, a pitch designer for a fashion company who has recently broken up with her boyfriend, is being ridiculed for a commercial she wrote involving doomed couples, seen as offensive due to the recent string of murders. Her boss, Crystal, orders her to work with famed designer Jay Simmons, whom Ally had encountered at a coffee shop earlier. Jay suggests the two of them have dinner that night to gain inspiration and Ally's best friend Monica helps her pick out an outfit.

Ally and Jay meet at the restaurant but the conversation gets heated when they question each others single status and backstories. Jay leaves and Ally follows, kissing him as she sees her previous boyfriend approaching with his new girlfriend. From a distance the Heart Eyes killer watches. The two of them reconcile their differences and take a cab to her apartment, where Jay helps her break in after she forgets her key, cutting his hand in the process. She helps tend to his wound upstairs, only for the Heart Eyes killer to attack them. He kills their cab driver and chases them, knocking Jay out in the process. Ally flees, and ends up on a Merry-Go-Round, before the police arrive. They arrest Jay for the murders, though he claims innocence.

At the station, Shaw and Hobbs point out how Jay's initials match the one on the ring and Shaw points out that he was in the same locations at the same time as the killers previous attacks. Ally waits in the lobby with the desk clerk and meets David, who was working on the computers. The lights go out and Heart Eyes kills the clerk and attacks Ally. Shaw confronts the killer but disappears, while Hobbs is killed. Ally rescues Jay and they flee to a drive-in, where Heart Eyes slaughters several movie-goers. They decide to confront the killer and unmask him as an unknown man. The two of them are tended to by an ambulance and Shaw arrives with a hurt arm. She offers Jay a ride home and he accepts.

At home, Ally realizes she loves Jay and goes to find him at the airport. However, she is unable to find him and Heart Eyes calls her, telling her to come to the St. Valentine's chapel to rescue him. She arrives and Heart Eyes unmasks himself as David, who reveals the previous killer was Eli, a fanboy. Shaw reveals herself as another Heart Eyes and David's wife. The two of them have committed every murder, switching out the costume. Shaw in particular attacked them at the apartment, while David killed the cab driver and the couple at the winery, losing his ring. Their motivation is a kink for killing together. They present Ally with the choice of killing herself or Jay, but she shoots Shaw instead, hitting Jay in the process. The two couples fight and Ally decapitates Shaw on a statue, while Jay shoots David with his own arrow.

One year later, Ally is returning to med school and the couple attend a drive-in movie. Jay asks Ally to move in with him, but she instead proposes and he accepts.