A spy's midlife crisis meets an artist who paints with blood — foreplay has never been deadlier.
As ruthless spy Anthony faces a midlife crisis, he must decide whether to keep playing the kiss and tell, murder and mayhem game, or retire. But retire to what? And what about Katherine, the seemingly normal artist, who just happens to kill her patrons after sex... who Anthony quickly becomes entangled within a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Acting
Pax and St. Croix weaponize vulnerability like it's loaded.
Cinematography
Cross shoots sex and death with the same suffocating intimacy.
Direction
Eli Cross turns 152 minutes into a claustrophobic sweat you can't wipe off.
Director
Eli Cross
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cross emerged from adult cinema and applies its unblinking gaze to noir conventions — mainstream critics largely ignored this, which says more about them than the film.
The 152-minute runtime is deliberate exhaustion; by the end, you've lived in Anthony's spiritual bankruptcy long enough to smell it on yourself.
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