Rose Glass directs Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian and Ed Harris in this neo noir nightmare where a gunrunner’s daughter and a female bodybuilder enter into a deadly tryst.

Neo-Noir is my jam. Massive soft spot for Stewart (she’s a little under served here and allows newcomer O’Brian the spotlight). Plotwise this does nothing unexpected but where it stands out are the frequent lurches into surrealism. This becomes pure terror fuel at times. The deeper we go, the more adoring the visual shout outs to David Lynch become obvious. Night road. Slat door closet. Deformed cheeks. Glass really revels within the diseased mind, manages to keep things grungy and composed as sanity falls apart. I dig what she does. The set pieces can be a little piecemeal but this is about slippery characters with no code, great bodies and nothing but violence in their love language. Will rewatch soon.

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