This article contains some spoilers For "heart eyes".

The movies team behind New Film of Origin on the Valentu "Heart Eyes" It seems to be collecting around their film with a certain spin of "See it in the cinemas!" Agenda. Namely, those new horror movie icons (and franchises, naturally) can't be born if no one goes to see them when they are brand new. While this is insincere true, it feels important to emphasize at least one of the reasons why fans of horror-traditionally very loyal and easy to satisfy the group-have not appeared for one of the few attempts to create a new horror icon over the last decade and change.

While some were not given fair shaking (witnessing the sad story of a darkened, almost suppressed release of "The empty man"), others have or have a rather unexplained start (sorry, "Bugiman"), was too much of the franchise (I don't think we'll see “Choose V: The tunamaring "soon) arrived too late (eventually "Thanksgiving" The film finally stems from "Grindhouse"), or they were simply too respected and/or reminiscent of other horror icons. This grassrog's "Heart Eyes" campaign is being led by people there is much merits because the film feels pretty fresh. Ironically, however, this freshness is not related to its horror content by itself.

The killer of the heart of the heart (listed in the movie as "Jack", Kim of the BTK's serial killer in real life, Dennis Rader) is essentially a mix of Michael Meyers and Spirit: They are silent, they carry a nasty Musk, there may be a few of the them, they use various devices in creative ways to commit murder and so on. It is neither an alleged concept behind Jack, which is new, nor; Although marketing and film opens up with the assumption that Jack just kills couples, the film breaks it it rules quite quickly. No, what the "heart eyes" does what no horror film has done before it is to mix the tropes and structure of the film, so completely with the tropes and structure of the romantic comedy, allowing the film to fully meet the two genres. While the horror movie that refers to other horror films is literally a dozen, this homage to the Roma-Kom is what makes "heart eyes" really stand out in a crowd.

At first blush, a horror film that interferes with another genre does not sound new or unique. Take a look at this, however: despite the huge amount of horror hybrid films, most of them tend to favor one element over the other. The comedy and horror mixture is well dressed and well appreciated now (or at least it should be), but even the largest lamps on that cross -pollination tend to be inserted into one category or another. This is because most films with genres are really mixtures, with various elements of two or more genres mixed in the recipe.

A real mashup is actually pretty hard to come. Even the most famous examples of bending the genre do not apply to the concept of discharge of two complete narratives for genres together. For example, though "John of the Dead" It was advertised as a "Roma-ZOM-Com" (aka a romantic comedy with zombies), no structure or tropes within the film adheres to the classic Roma-Com; It's just a story of a romance against the backdrop of the zombie apocalypse film, which seems to be funny. To point to another example, "From Twilight to Dawn" He often boasts of combining the drama of the heinous crime with a characteristic of a cruel creature. This is true, but the drama of the heinous crime, but stops after the vampires emerges, which means the film is less than Mashup and more than a turn.

Surprisingly, it is "heart-eyes" co-writers Christopher Landon and Michael Kennedy who are constantly coming to the closest to the Mashups genre with their work. Landon "Happy Day of Death" And "Happy Day of Death 2U" successfully retained the gradual structure of the film while telling a story of science fiction, while Landon and Kennedy on "Freaky" Included all the classic beats and a comedy about the body's exchange and the story of an old school school. When it comes to genre, "Heart Eyes" takes everything the writers have learned with those films and perfected them.

Recently there was a resurrection of the romantic comedy that is being built steadily, with successes in box office like "Everyone except you" and the upcoming festival pets as a "wedding banquet". In this regard, there is an increased appreciation of Roma-com tropes, the classic elements that feel so part and a parcel of the genre. Last year Twisters paid tribute to some of these elements in a very clever way. "Heart Eyes" feels like a sequel to that respect, so much that it was possible to separate the story of the Roma-Komka of the film from his desirable horror, however, he would work as a complete film.

Director "Heart Eyes" Oshosh Ruben said during the recent Reddit but that some of his most prominent influences on the film were Roma-Coms of Penny Marshall ("Great") and Nora Ephron ("Seattle" see over. Although he has not appointed Richard Curtis, he feels like the work of director "Loveubov" can also be seen in "Heart Eyes", especially when it comes to the art comedy between Ali (Olivia Holt) and Jayei (Mason Gooding), who are They meet cute in a cafe in Seattle when they realize they made the same order (and then go to each other's head several times, reminiscent of a romantic bit in "scuoged"). When it turns out that Ali and Jayej are competing for the same glossy corporate creative work - as an ad campaign manager for the jewelry company - the duo has an excuse to schedule a "work date" on the day of the UNUNA, a meeting that unfortunately has collapsed Ali's boy and the killer of the heart.

Hence, "Heart Eyes" sees that Ali and Jayei's romance develops in classic Roma-Com fashion, from their playful, flirting-banners to private, introspective moments to missed signs, hurt feelings, and even climate-ruin-rendevus at the airport . What is most impressive is that not only all this happens at the same time with their running for their lives from the Jack, but their story of Roma-coms does not take the back of the younger action, nor is it on a break. Thus, "Heart Eyes" is just as legitimate Roma-com as a horror film, a rare feat.

While most Chinese references within Heart Eyes are on other Roma-Com, not other horror films or weaker films, it does not mean that Ruben and the company do not demonstrate their horror bonafids in the film. In different places (including that Reddit, but And the premiere of the film in Los Angeles, which I could attend), Ruben said that his biggest impact on the film was not "My Bloody in Valentubnik" or "Scroll", but more than 1986 "Friday on the 13th part VI: Asoneyson lives." That sequel, written and directed by Tom McLaflin, was the great reintroduction of Jason Vorihes into the Franchise Friday (after his absence of Kinda-Sorta in "Part V"). McLaflin used this occasion not only to introduce elements of the supernatural and Gothic horror in the series, but also to take the cultural environment of the sequel to the horror (and especially "Friday") by breaking the fourth Wallid at times at times at times. and including a deliberate sense of humor. Part of this latest agenda included writing a lot of comedy for a comedy about the teenage comedy on the film, a device that only deepens and enriches the film that could be measured by just as much trash as Jason is in the end.

Although "Asoneyson Lives" was an important step in traveling to Meta-Samo-Sam-reference (McLaflin claims that "hide" scribe Kevin Williamson cites "Asonerson Lives" as an influence), that is the quality that makes it not too " Scream, "but something simpler and serious, making it its way to" heart eyes ". Where Slasher Boom Post-Screams and so many postmodern horror films love horror fans with the end of the Chinese equivalent of Trivia quiz, "Heart Eyes" is an honest celebration of holidays and holidays and romantic comedies that are not not 'T fishing for spots of brown. So, while "Heart Eyes" can be by far the most original film ever made, its uniqueness stands out in the midst of a huge crowd.

Just like choosing that special one of all the fish in the sea, if you are on its wavelength, you may fall hard for "heart eyes".