ComingSoon's Brandon Schreur spoke to Heart Eyes director Josh Ruben about the new romantic holiday horror slasher movie.
Heart Eyes. Ruben discussed what kills were the most challenging to create in the movie, whether or not he’d be open to doing a sequel, and more.
There are definitely more people involved by nature of the size of the thing and the amount of creators on it. You really have to be collaborative; it’s a different form of collaboration. There’s no way I prefer to work other than to be collaborative with every department and to have everyone just kind of ‘best idea wins’ it to make the best thing possible.
Well, I didn’t come up with the idea. It was actually Phillip Murphy who wrote the original iteration of the script, the true slasher. And then Michael Kennedy and Chris Landon came aboard to kind of put their stamp on it and make it a bit more fun, a bit more commercial, and a bit more of the kind of film you want to bring ten buddies to. It still maintained the gore and slasher-ness while pushing it even further.
Which, I’m in the business of making escapism. I love true, escapist, fun horror — or fun genre, really — that you want to bring ten friends to; maybe your older friends will enjoy it just as much as, like, a younger niece or nephew who is super into horror, as I was as a kid.Yes! That’s what you want. We continually laud these horror icons every Halloween: Candyman, Freddy, Pinhead, Michael Myers, and Jason.
Working with Tony and Bryan was amazing. I mean, Tony Gardner worked on Dark Man, which is, like, the be-all, end-all for me. It was tough. We had several meetings about it, we did models with cars, and many, many discussions. Once we were there and knew we had four or five days to do the whole sequence, plus the kind of bookending scenes with some wrap-around stuff in the studio, it became, I don’t know, I don’t want to say easier, but it became more manageable once you chip away at it like you would anything.
It’s a fun scene, too. So many twists and turns and watching it all play out, it’s so fun. Another person I love is Devon Sawa in this movie. He’s created such a name for himself in horror, just seeing him in Chucky and Hunter Hunter. Here, he gets to be funny. Like, really funny. Which was great to see. What was it like working with him on this?
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