Movies Kristen Stewart falls for a bodybuilder, chaos ensues in wild Love Lies Bleeding trailer Dead bodies! Guns! Sex! Milkshakes! By Jessica Wang Jessica Wang Jessica is a staff writer at Entertainment Weekly, where she covers TV, movies, and pop culture. Her work has appeared in Bustle, NYLON, Cosmopolitan, InStyle, and more. She lives in California with her dog. EW's editorial guidelines Published on December 19, 2023 09:00AM EST Love is pain. Kristen Stewart and Katy M. O'Brian begin an electric love story in the ferocious and bloody trailer for Rose Glass's upcoming romance thriller Love Lies Bleeding. Stewart plays Lou, a reclusive gym manager who falls hard for O'Brian's Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her athletic dreams. However, "their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family," according to the synopsis. Ed Harris (and the most chaotic hairdo) stars as Lou's menacing, gun-slinging father, who finds himself pursued by the FBI. His criminal doings are not immediately clear, but it brings big trouble to his daughter and her new love. Between shots of Lou and Jackie's trysts are sequences that see the two disposing of a dead body and engaging in a shoot-out. "I'm gonna tell them everything you did," Lou says to her father over the phone. He responds, "Are you threatening me?" The A24 film, set to screen at Sundance Film Festival in January before releasing sometime in spring 2024, also stars Dave Franco, Jena Malone, and Anna Baryshnikov. Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brian in 'Love Lies Bleeding'. A24 Glass's recent credit includes the 2019 horror mystery Saint Maud, while Stewart last starred in 2022's Crimes of the Future and 2021's Princess Diana film Spencer. O'Brian last appeared on The Mandalorian and in this year's Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Watch the intense, bloodsoaked trailer for Love Lies Bleeding above. Want more movie news? Sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free newsletter to get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more. Related content: Pedro Pascal, Kristen Stewart, and Sebastian Stan films hit Sundance 2024: See the full lineup Kristen Stewart 'crashed' Robert Pattinson's birthday party for an impromptu Twilight reunion Kristen Stewart says Guy Fieri won't officiate her wedding after all, but will be there 'in spirit'