McKenna Grace stars as Laurel Hansen, a teen whose fairy-tale first-kiss fantasy becomes a curse granting visions of death; the plot centers on using those visions to stop a masked slasher targeting her friend group. This setup treats the narrative as straightforward romantic horror entertainment rather than a vehicle for messaging, with the curse element serving as an escalation of normal teenage anxieties about intimacy into life-or-death stakes. Director and co-writer Yoko Okumura has described the film explicitly as a 'colorful fun teen slasher romance' that leans into fairy-tale visuals and score, underscoring creator intent centered on entertainment value over thematic agendas.

Supporting characters such as Evan Geller and Poppy Yang function as part of an incidental teen ensemble within the murder-mystery plot, keeping any casting choices secondary to the core slasher and romance elements. The result is a project whose low woke score reflects the absence of forced identity politics or creator-driven social commentary, prioritizing genre thrills and aesthetic style instead.