Warning: The article contains heavy spoilers concerning Heart Eyes' biggest reveals.
This year, its Seattle.
After a recent breakup, advertising executive Ally (Olivia Holt) finds herself down on love.
Image by Jefferson Chacon
A perpetual doom-scroller of her exs socials, Ally is bitter to the detriment of her career.
You could say that HEK ships it.
Pretty much everyone inHeart Eyeshas romance on their mind.
The chaotic clutter extends into her bedroom where a vibrator is left haphazardly on a disorganized nightstand.
Ally and Jay actually survive their first run-in with HEK thanks to the vibrator.
Ally discovers the killers hiding place while trying to hide it.
The film never positions Ally as someone who deserves to be stalked by a slasher because she is sexual.
At worst, it leaves you vulnerable.
The unfortunately horny hippies meet their demise, their moans of pleasure summoning the Heart Eyes Killer.
Retrospectively, it’s easy to see how big this kink is for Shaw.
She swipes through dating apps while processing forensic evidence.
They acknowledge that they’re breaking their own rules with Ally and Jay.
EvenHEK’s physical design is as much kink as it is disguise.
While HEKs glowing heart eyes provide night vision, the overall design is less tactical, more leather daddy.
HEKs design is heavy and restrictive.
Shaw and Davids connection relies entirely on kink to escalating extremes.
There’s no indication that previous HEK targets were baited to save their lovers or summoned to moody chapels.
In a dual-wielding film likeHeart Eyes, what could be a greater honor?
Shaw is hell-bent on the lore of Saint Valentine that gets people beheaded.
Ally beheads Shaw via the sword of the chapel’s Saint Valentine statue to save Jay’s life.
The brilliance of horror in a rom-com wrapper is thatrom-coms rely on the promise of consummation.
Chemistry, banter, and fashion are stand-ins for sexual tension.
It provides adult movie-goers with the same safety tweens get from carefully manicured and curated boy bands.
Horror, of course, is the opposite of safety.
It allows us to let our fears and trauma get their zoomies out.
Where Randy Meeks says that “motives are incidental,“Heart Eyessays that sex is incidental.
