Heart Eyeshas achieved a 2025 horror first by passing a major box office milestone. The slasher movie, which follows two coworkers (Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding) who are mistaken for lovers by a couple-targeting killer on Valentine’s Day, debuted at No. 2 behindDog Manon the weekend before Valentine’s Day. TheHeart Eyesreleasethen pulled off a near-impossible feat by harnessing the appeal of its holiday setting for a +19% sophomore weekend boost the following weekend, which marked the third-best week 2 performance for a slasher movie in cinema history.
PerDeadline, as of Saturday morning,Heart Eyesis projected to take in a 3-day total of $3 millionat the domestic box office by the end of its third weekend in theaters. Although this sees it dropping 70% after Valentine’s Day weekend, it is still neck and neck with the Chinese animated hitNe Zha 2for the No. 5 spot on the chart. Additionally, this brings its cumulative domestic total to $26.925 million, making it the first horror movie of 2025 to pass the $25 million domestic milestone and only the sixth to do so in general.
What This Means For Heart Eyes
The Horror Movie Is On Its Way Toward Success
In addition to performing better than 2025’s other horror releases so far, including Blumhouse’sWolf Manreboot, the Steven Soderbergh haunted house moviePresence, and the horror-adjacent sci-fi thrillerCompanion,Heart Eyeshas only fallen behindCaptain America: Brave New World,Dog Man,One of Them Days,Den of Thieves: Pantera, andFlight Riskat the domestic box office. To compare, its fellow Valentine’s Day-themed release, the Ke Huy Quan action-comedyLove Hurts, has already dropped out of the domestic Top 10 with a cumulative gross under $15 million.
Love Hurtsdebuted on the same weekend asHeart Eyes, premiering at No. 3.
It is still too early to call the movie a proper horror hit, however. Its reported $18 million budgetlikely means that it will need to earn $45 million in order to break even. However, its current trajectory, the fact that glowingHeart Eyesreviewshave earned it a Certified Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score of 81%, and the possibility that its holiday theme will lead to annual re-watches on VOD and streaming all point to it becoming a solid commercial success in the long run.
Our Take On The Heart Eyes Box Office Milestone
The Slasher Has Achieved A Major Accomplishment
Eventually, another title will swoop in to stealHeart Eyes' title as the highest-grossing2025 horror movieat the domestic box office. In fact, it seems highly likely that the new releaseThe Monkey- a Stephen King adaptation that is writer-director Osgood Perkins' follow-up to the 2024 hitLonglegs- could surpass it soon after debuting with an estimated $14 million. However, the fact thatthe original slasher has outgrossed an IP-related project likeWolf Manshows that it has strong potential to become one of the most memorable horror releases of the year.
