SPOILER WARNING: The next article offers away two main moments from Coronary heart Eyes and Love Hurts. So, except you’ve gotten already seen each of those new 2025 motion pictures, proceed with warning as you sip on this info.
{Couples} all in favour of spending Valentine’s Day weekend on the motion pictures have a number of fascinating and thematically applicable choices to select from within the type of a romantic horror film referred to as Coronary heart Eyes and a romantic action-comedy referred to as Love Hurts. Along with being violent style flicks that happen on V-Day, boast traditional rom-com film themes, and even each got here out throughout this yr’s Tremendous Bowl weekend, these movies additionally share a wierd connection that I actually didn’t count on.
Every film incorporates a scene during which a personality is killed with a consuming straw – a coincidence that I’m not even going to hassle attempting to determine the way it got here to be. Nevertheless, I wish to speak about how Coronary heart Eyes and Love Hurts deal with this distinctive technique of homicide onscreen and why I consider one tops the opposite in nearly each means conceivable. First, let’s get into what occurs in every sequence.
The Consuming Straw Kill In Coronary heart Eyes
Director Josh Ruben’s new horror film, Coronary heart Eyes, is an old style slasher film with a humorous, romantic twist. It follows coworkers Ally (Olivia Holt) and Jay (Mason Gooding, who’s returning for Scream 7), who’re mistaken for lovers by the eponymous masked killer, who’s infamous for concentrating on {couples} round February 14th.
The Coronary heart Eyes ending sees Ally, having realized she is in love with Jay, going to a St. Valentine’s Day chapel to rescue him from the wrongdoer, who seems to be two people who find themselves romantically linked and get off on murdering different {couples}. Their reign ends when Jay shoots the male slayer, David (Yoson An), within the head after Ally fatally defends herself in opposition to his companion, Det. Jeanette Shaw (Jordana Brewster), by stabbing her within the neck with a reusable straw she carries along with her in every single place.
The Consuming Straw Kill In Love Hurts
Love Hurts additionally blends violence with comedy and romance however, as a substitute of borrowing from traditional horror motion pictures, it borrows parts from nice motion motion pictures like John Wick. It stars Academy Award winner Ke Huy Quan as actual property agent Marvin Gable, who’s struggling to outrun his previous as an murderer for his mafia boss brother, Alvin ‘Knuckles’ Gable (Daniel Wu).
The consuming straw comes into play when Knuckles, who likes to drink boba tea, confronts Marvin’s boss and shut buddy, Cliff Cussick (Sean Astin, Quan’s co-star from the beloved household film, The Goonies), about his whereabouts. When Cliff doesn’t give him up, Knuckles removes the straw from his freshly completed boba tea and forcefully lobotomizes him with it.
Why Coronary heart Eyes’ Consuming Straw Kill Works Higher
Even when I didn’t consider Coronary heart Eyes is a superb horror rom-com or agree with the cruel evaluations for Love Hurts, I’d nonetheless give the slasher’s consuming straw kill scene the sting for a number of causes. To start with, each movies set up the straw as a defining trait for the character who makes use of it however Coronary heart Eyes does so in a extra credible and fewer awkwardly compelled trend than Knuckles’ over-the-top boba tea fixation.
Secondly, whereas each scenes have a campy taste, Coronary heart Eyes’ kill is a tonally constant punchline to its established reusable straw bit whereas Love Hurts’ try to provide the likable Cliff an earnestly tragic demise is severely undercut by the ridiculous weapon of selection. Lastly, whereas each kills are unquestionably absurd in idea, Coronary heart Eyes will get factors for plausibility, as a result of Ally’s straw is manufactured from steel and extra believably deadly than Knuckles’ plastic straw, even with its pointed finish.
, I additionally observed a humorous factor about Coronary heart Eyes that connects it to 2022’s Scream, excluding that additionally it is a slasher starring Mason Gooding… although this observe does contain the actor. His character within the requel, Chad Meeks-Martin, refers to his biceps as “Hobbs and Shaw,” after Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham’s Quick and Livid collection roles, which can be the identify of the 2 detectives in Coronary heart Eyes, performed by Jordana Brewster (additionally a star of stated motion franchise) and Devon Sawa. On prime of its homicide through consuming straw connection to Love Hurts, it’s coincidences like these that, to me, make being a film lover much more enjoyable.