DIRECTOR EXCLUSIVE
Love Kills
Director Josh Ruben returns to the horror genre with the Valentine’s Day bloodletting Heart Eyes
WORDS: TARA BENNETT
Olivia Holt stars as Ally, about to get into trouble.
Heart Eyes himself clearly doesn’t skip chest day.
JUST IN TIME FOR VALENTINE’S Day comes a cinematic mash-up that aims to please both romcom and horror fans. Impossible, you say? Director Josh Ruben most ardently disagrees and presents Heart Eyes, his latest film, as proof of concept. In just five years, Ruben has carved out a unique horror space for himself making funny, thought-provoking and scary films like Scare Me (2020) and Werewolves Within (2021). His latest is based on an original premise by Phillip Murphy and co-written by successful modern horror screenwriters Christopher Landon and Michael Kennedy (Happy Death Day). Ruben was approached by Kennedy to give his spin on their tale of a masked serial killer (featuring literal heart eyes carved into his mask) targeting happy couples.