{"id":289231,"date":"2026-02-09T19:30:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289231\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T19:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:30:49","slug":"five-valentines-day-slashers-to-stream-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289231\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Valentine’s Day Slashers to Stream This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love is in the air this week. Not only is Valentine\u2019s Day<\/a> arriving on Saturday, but it\u2019s preceded by the first of three Friday the 13ths of the year. That feels almost kismet, considering that when it comes to horror movies set on Valentine\u2019s Day, slashers have emerged as the dominant subgenre.<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s streaming picks are entirely comprised of holiday slashers set on Valentine\u2019s Day, wielding Cupid\u2019s bow with a passion for murder.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s where to stream them.<\/p>\n

For more\u00a0Stay Home, Watch Horror\u00a0picks, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Heart Eyes \u2013 Netflix<\/p>\n

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The classic rom-com gets a slasher spin in this charming horror comedy heavily themed around Valentine\u2019s Day.\u00a0\u00a0Olivia Holt\u00a0and\u00a0Mason Gooding star as coworkers forced into an intense survival scenario when the rampaging Heart Eyes Killer mistakes them for a couple, sending sparks flying between them in their fight for survival. Director\u00a0Josh Ruben<\/a>\u00a0(Werewolves Within,\u00a0Scare Me), and writers Phillip Murphy\u00a0(The Hitman\u2019s Wife\u2019s Bodyguard) and\u00a0Christopher Landon\u00a0(Drop, Freaky) &\u00a0Michael Kennedy\u00a0(Freaky) dial up the \u201990s slasher madness while lovingly poking fun at romcom tropes, making the perfect date night flick.<\/p>\n

Lover\u2019s Lane \u2013 MGM+<\/p>\n

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Before breaking out in Scary Movie, Anna Faris made her feature debut in this underseen Valentine\u2019s Day slasher from the late \u201990s teen slasher cycle. While the plot borrows more from Halloween, the setup is similar to My Bloody Valentine in that a killer with a nasty hook gets apprehended after a Valentine\u2019s Day massacre at the local makeout spot. Years later, a new wave suggests the killer is back with a vengeance. The low budget exposes rough seams, making for a campier affair, but it\u2019s offset by its holiday theme and whodunnit style slasher plotting.<\/p>\n

My Bloody Valentine 3D \u2013 Fandango at Home, Hoopla, Kanopy, Tubi<\/p>\n

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This 2009 update of the 1981 slasher favorite was directed by Patrick Lussier (Dracula 2000, Drive Angry) and co-written by Todd Farmer and Zane Smith from John Beaird\u2019s original screenplay. My Bloody Valentine 3D goes for broke in attempting to top the kills of its predecessor, while keeping the core plot nearly the same. In both, miner Harry Warden and his murderous rampages hold a sleepy mining town in a grip of terror on Valentine\u2019s Day, and he\u2019s back to slaughter hearts once more. While this update lacks the charms of Valentines Bluffs, it makes up for it with in-your-face slashings designed for eye-popping 3D.<\/p>\n

Valentine \u2013 Hoopla, Roku Channel, Tubi<\/p>\n

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In junior high, outcast Jeremy Melton was ruthlessly rejected by five classmates at the Valentine\u2019s Day dance, then publicly humiliated. In adulthood, those same classmates find themselves getting stalked and picked off, one by one. It\u2019ll end up one bloody Valentine\u2019s evening. It\u2019s a holiday-themed slasher full of excellent set pieces and kills, and the cast offers up several memorable characters, too.<\/p>\n

X-Ray (aka Hospital Massacre) \u2013 MGM+, Tubi<\/p>\n

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A woman finds herself trapped on an empty hospital floor with a killer posing as a surgeon, almost two decades after she humiliated a romantic hopeful on Valentine\u2019s Day. That means the weapon of choice here is a myriad of hospital tools, making for a fun deviation to the familiar slasher formula. The killer reveal holds no surprises, and pacing can be an issue, but X-Ray brings enough creativity in the setting and demise department to deliver some slasher comfort food this Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Love is in the air this week. Not only is Valentine\u2019s Day arriving on Saturday, but it\u2019s preceded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,204,138696,138697,61,60,138698,270,85432,20763,41,138699,15413],"class_list":{"0":"post-289231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-heart-eyes","11":"tag-hospital-massacre","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-lovers-lane","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-my-bloody-valentine","17":"tag-stay-home-watch-horror","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-valentine","20":"tag-x-ray"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}