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Heart Eyes

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21 Interesting Facts About Heart Eyes

Interesting Facts (18)

  1. #001

    Director Josh Ruben said he wanted every romantic moment to feel as Nora Ephron as possible and every horror moment as Wes Craven as possible.

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  2. #002

    In his first scene, Hobbs jokes about losing his balls, setting up his death later from a machete to the groin.

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  3. #003

    The criminologist in the opening montage is named S. P. Wampler in tribute to the late journalist and podcast host Scott Wampler.

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  4. #004

    In a scene cut from the final film, director Josh Ruben is killed by a ninja star covered in heart stickers that hits him in the face.

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  5. #005

    Hobbs is sure the killer must be a man, but Shaw tells him it could just as easily be a woman; Shaw later turns out to be one of the killers.

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  6. #006

    In the deleted "Meet Arthur" scene, Monica's pep talk is made up almost entirely of rom-com titles: Crazy/Beautiful (2001), Something's Gotta Give (2003), Clueless (1995), Drive Me Crazy (1999), 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Bridesmaids (2011), Notting Hill (1999), Pretty Woman (1990), The Girl Next Door (2004), Love Actually (2003), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) and Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011).

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  7. #007

    In Ally's apartment, Jay spots a photo of a child in a Pokémon onesie and tells her he wore one as a kid. In Scream 5, Mason Gooding's character also says he had a Pokémon onesie when he was little.

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  8. #008

    Monica wasn't in the original script. Screenwriter Jen D'Angelo, brought in to add a female perspective, created her during an uncredited polish; D'Angelo had earlier written Totally Killer (2023), a horror comedy that also starred Olivia Holt.

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  9. #009

    Several crew members show up as the killer's victims in the news report.

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  10. #010

    The Heart Eyes Killer's machete handle is decorated with little hearts.

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  11. #011

    Director Josh Ruben voiced the Heart Eyes Killer.

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  12. #012

    After she's unmasked as one of the killers, Shaw gushes about how much she loves the story of how St. Valentine lost his head, and she ends up dying when her head is cut off by the sword on the St. Valentine statue.

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  13. #013

    The carousel scene was shot partly on a set and partly at a real theme park.

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  14. #014

    His Girl Friday (1940) is what's showing at the drive-in, a fitting pick, since Heart Eyes opened on Valentine's Day, a Friday in 2025.

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  15. #015

    The drive-in scene took five days to shoot.

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  16. #016

    Sabrina Carpenter passed on the role of Ally McCabe.

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  17. #017

    Michaela Watkins (Crystal) has the same hairdo as her friend Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Thunderbolts*.

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  18. #018

    The two detectives are named Hobbs and Shaw, like the Fast & Furious spin-off, and in Scream 5 Mason Gooding's character jokes about adding Hobbs and Shaw to his arsenal.

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Characters & Cast (1)

  1. #019

    The actors playing the lovestruck couple in the van auditioned together.

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Easter Eggs & References (2)

  1. #020

    A news report at the start mentions a mail carrier's remains being found under a Vermont boarding house, a nod to director Josh Ruben's previous film, Werewolves Within.

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  2. #021

    When Monica and Ally go clothes shopping, Ally's outfits reference other rom-coms: her first look, with the hat, copies Stacey Dash's in Clueless, her collared dress matches Julia Roberts's evening outfit in Pretty Woman, and then she and Monica wear the colorful dresses from Romy and Michele's High School Reunion.

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