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The Horror Comedy Is the Genre of Our Moment
And Heart Eyes is funny and gory enough to fit the bill.
No genre feels more suited to the current national mood than violent comedy, so it’s thoughtful of Hollywood to have arranged ahead of time for a bunch of bloodsoaked burlesques to hit theaters in quick succession. The movie kicks off with the uproarious massacre of an insufferable couple who are getting engaged at a vineyard, a process that involves a speaker playing Lonestar’s “Amazed,” a ring in a strawberry, and a second runthrough once it turns out the photographer missed the big moment. Heart Eyes is more likely to go for the joke than for the scare, and the scenes of its glowing-eyed boogieman stalking characters through botanical gardens, police station hallways, and drive-through movie theaters are never spatially coherent enough to build any sense of dread.
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