Film Review – Love Lies Bleeding

Director Rose Glass made her debut with 2020’s “Saint Maud,” a psychological horror picture that was basically smothered by the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, which ruined its release and slowed potential exposure for the helmer. Glass aims for a more direct shot of filmmaking brutality with “Love Lies Bleeding,” going the pulp fiction route with an American tale of obsession, overkill, and violent reaction, co-writing the work with Weronika Tofilska. The material has a few wild ideas when it comes to creating the visual representation of physical power, and most of the cast submits to the extremity, with co-star Katy O’Brian quite effective as a bodybuilder searching for some form of stability, only to end up right in the middle of a criminal mess. “Love Lies Bleeding” is most definitely a style over substance viewing experience, but Glass provides moments of imagination and fury that are worth sticking around for. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com