The "Werewolves Within" director gifts audiences a nutty genre blend featuring Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding as star-crossed ...

“The very minimal slasher description in the script was something to the effect of ‘a twisted version of the heart eyes emoji,'” Ruben said. “So then you go to legends like Tony Gardner ...

Heart Eyes” throws in a few red herrings, taking advantage of how fluidly rom-com and horror clichés can be exchanged to ...

“It was always in the script that it would be some sort of twisted version of the heart eyes emoji, which my shoulders went up a bit at the prospect of what that might be,” he said.

It comes as no surprise that his follow-up would do the same thing for another underwhelming subgenre. “Heart Eyes” raises the bar for emoji movies, which sounds like faint praise since “The Emoji ...

As with its personality-free killer, whose mask has two glowing heart eyes—thereby making him a murderous emoji—it’s a drearily generic affair. On a Seattle winery’s hillside overlooking a misty ...