Then again with a film as good as Josh Ruben’s “Heart Eyes,” everyone’s a winner. Ruben is the director of the brilliant 2021 ...

Make way for the Heart Eyes Killer (HEK for short) – an emoji-faced cross between Jason Voorhees and My Bloody Valentine’s Harry Warden. Wasting little time in getting down to business ...

“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.

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 ...

“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 ...