Ladylike: 10 thrill rides like ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ that’ll get your blood pumping
Love Lies Bleeding (the second feature from Saint Maud director Rose Glass) follows Lou (Kristen Stewart) a lonely gym manager who falls hard for Jackie (Katy O’Brian) a bodybuilder with big dreams of competing at a competition in Las Vegas.
Their tumultuous relationship gets entangled with Lou’s criminal family, which to say the least, complicates things. Glass swings for the fences with Love Lies Bleeding creating a pulpy cocktail of sex, violence, and steroids.
It’s a sapphic film unlike many others because of Glass’s mashup of action and neo-noir with a dash of supernatural thrown in.
Plus, with plenty of steamy scenes between Lou and Jackie it’s bound to become a lesbian cult classic. Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Inspired by Love Lies Bleeding, we’ve put together a similarly mashed up list in honor of Glass’s homage to many genres that felt spiritually bound to Love Lies Bleeding whether that’s from passionate, toxic affairs, being gay and doing crime, or frankly just seeing women kicking ass. Scroll down below for 10 sapphic thrill rides that’ll get your blood pumping:Speaking of lesbian cult classics, Emma Seligman’s 2023 teen comedy Bottoms is certainly going into that hall of fame. “Ugly, untalented gays” PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) desperately just want to lose their virginities to hot cheerleaders before they go off to college, but they have no idea how to make that happen.
