On the heels of the recent poster, A24 (via FearHQ.com) has released the steamy first trailer for Saint Maud director Rose Glass' romantic revenge thriller, Love Lies Bleeding, which stars Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brian as lovers who get in over their head with the former's criminal family.
O’Brian (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, The Mandalorian) plays Jackie, "an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream." On her way, she encounters Stewart's (Underwater, Charlie's Angels) character, Lou, who is described as a "reclusive gym manager."
The two embark on a relationship, but their “romance fuelled by ego, desire and the American Dream” soon leads to bloodshed when Lou threatens to tell the FBI about her father's (Ed Harris) illegal activities.
The trailer definitely hints that there might be some kind of strange twist in the tail, and O'Brian revealed that a previous draft of the script included more horror elements during a recent interview with Collider.
"In the original script, there were a lot of Saint Maud kind of moments. Like body horror, that kind of thing. We kind of had to consolidate it I guess a little bit more. I’m really excited to see what the final edit looks like, but I think it’s more focused on the love story and more focused on the thriller aspect. So it’s a love thriller, kind of Western. It’s shot like a Western. It’s so unique, so interesting, and only Rose’s brain could have come up with it. She’s got this unparalleled imagination.
[She] has, I think, a really, really unique sense of storytelling. [She] comes up with stories that just aren’t told, or if they are, are told in a really, really unique way. It was really great to work with her and getting to do a film like that where it’s not all about action, it’s not all about kicking butt, or whatever. It’s like a really heart wrenching story and I actually felt like I got to connect to a character more than I ever have before. One second you’re crying, you’re laughing. I think it’s just a really full fledged beautiful story and I’m super, super excited for people to see it."
Check out the trailer below, and let us know what you think in the comments section.
“Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.”
The movie will have its world premiere at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival, before arriving in theaters on March 8.