10 Recent Slashers That Deserve More Attention

4. Heart Eyes

Heart Eyes revolves around a masked sicko who targets loving couples each Valentine's Day. Our lead, Ally McCabe, is anti-romance, so she should be off-limits to the Heart Eyes Killer. But when HEK mistakes Ally and her work colleague, Jay Simmonds, as an item, the plutonic pair find themselves on his radar.

Leads Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding have effortless chemistry, especially when they're trying not to have chemistry to stay alive. Even though the stakes are sky-high, it's funny to see Ally and Jay's non-flirtatious behaviour being misconstrued by HEK as affection, compounding the killer's drive to murder them.

Although light-hearted horrors often tone down the violence, Heart Eyes goes in the opposite direction, kicking things off with a poor woman being pulverised by a grape juicer. This execution grabs your attention straight away, emphasising that the deaths are going to be elaborate and messy. For this reason, the titular villain feels like a genuine threat, despite the fact that the movie regularly pokes fun at tropes in horror and romcoms.

Though a sequel is in the works, Heart Eyes failed to make a profit. But if the follow-up does well, the love-hating sicko could become the next iconic slasher villain.