Love Lies Bleeding

2024 | 104 min | K-16 | action, crime, horror, romance, Trilleri

Lou is the manager of a rundown gym in a shabby small town in New Mexico in 1989. Her life is mostly a series of failures and misery. But when an energetic fitness competitor named Jackie arrives in town — radiating that adorably cheesy ‘80s charm — everything changes. Lou sets her sights on Jackie. The two women quickly bond and, of course, end up in bed together. Lou suggests Jackie try steroids, saying “everyone’s using them anyway,” and Jackie ends up getting a little too enthusiastic about the juice.

Jackie, who gets a job working for Lou’s father — a criminal hiding his shady dealings behind a shooting range — gets entangled in the family’s life when Lou’s sister Beth is abused by her husband J.J. Jackie has her eyes set on winning a bodybuilding competition in Las Vegas by any means necessary, but the events she sets in motion unleash an unstoppable avalanche that crushes Lou’s father and the rest of the family. Tensions escalate into violent confrontations and bloody complications.