Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
This gave me a similar experience as I had with <a href=”https://letterboxd.com/jwldk/film/x-2022/>X</a> and Pearl as I am very far from seeing this as anything particular noteworthy.
It is just all over the place in terms of style and genre, and it doesn’t seem to want to say or do anything specific. There may be an underlying comment about toxic masculinity somewhere, and genre mashups can be cool, but this just jumps between cheesy 80’s exploitation pastiche (but lacks the grittyness), lesbian drama, bloody revenge gore (and not really gory), an attempt at a Coen-like script (but lacks the humor), modern body horror in the vein of Titane and The Substance (with less insanity), even a sports film to a degree and it never settles on anything and all the various parts didn’t add up to much for me.
Rating: 2