Fun Throwback Black Comedy
Love Hurts is the sort of black comedy which doesn't really get made any more, and which apparently never enjoyed much popularity beyond a brief flourish in the late 1990s and early 2000s. (Something like 2001's 'One Night at McCool's' seems like an appropriate antecedent.) Considering the sub-sub-genre has rarely been in vogue it isn't surprising that this throwback didn't resonate with audiences or critics; but it is a shame considering that (with expectations appropriately tempered) it's entertaining and well-acted. If nothing else there's something admirable in the DGAFness of combining noirish thriller plot elements with romcom simplistic character arcs with action that's part slapstick comedy and part hyperbolic body-horror.
- johnspringer-95440
- 1 sep 2025