Film Review – We Kill For Love

When the words “erotic thriller” are uttered, usually only one person comes to mind: Shannon Tweed. Director Anthony Penta seeks to change such conception with “We Kill for Love,” which is a documentary about the subgenre, which was developing long before Tweed was even born, and continues after her retirement from acting. There’s an entire history to explore here, with erotic thrillers developing over the decades, eventually exploding in the 1980s and ‘90s, and the helmer is determined to sniff around every corner of interpretation and thought. There’s a lot to “We Kill for Love,” which runs a whopping 163 minutes, which is a major sit for a subject that could probably be successfully examined in an hour and a half. Penta is determined to oversee a behemoth production, and he’s not having a lot of fun with it, as the endeavor is more analytical than anecdotal, going the “Room 237” route with a stern, film theory approach, which is undeniably interesting, but with this absurd run time, it occasionally feels like running a marathon with no finish line. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com