Just in time for Halloween season, Knife + Heart, director Yann Gonzalez’s deliriously stylish, blood-soaked queer thriller, is now streaming on Dekkoo.
Set in Paris in the summer of 1979, the film stars Vanessa Paradis as Anne, a producer of low-budget gay adult films whose personal and professional worlds are beginning to unravel. Her editor and lover, Loïs (Kate Moran), has left her, and Anne throws herself into making her most ambitious film yet in an attempt to win her back.
Then one of her actors is brutally murdered.
As more members of Anne’s filmmaking family become targets of a mysterious masked killer, she is pulled into an increasingly strange investigation that transforms Knife + Heart from erotic melodrama into a feverish murder mystery.
Watch Knife + Heart now on Dekkoo.
A Queer Giallo Unlike Anything Else
Director Yann Gonzalez takes the heightened colors, elaborate murders, mystery and eroticism of classic Italian giallo cinema and filters them through an unmistakably queer lens. The result is one of the more distinctive gay movies you’ll find on Dekkoo.
Shot on 35mm and powered by a hypnotic retro score from M83, Knife + Heart is at once a slasher film, a love story and an affectionate tribute to a vanished corner of queer culture.
The film earned international acclaim after premiering in competition for the Palme d’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Its cast includes Vanessa Paradis, Nicolas Maury, Kate Moran, Jonathan Genet, Romane Bohringer and Félix Maritaud.
But beneath all the neon, sex and blood is something surprisingly tender.
Gonzalez gives the men in Anne’s films lives, friendships and a genuine sense of community. As the killer begins tearing that community apart, Knife + Heart becomes as melancholy as it is macabre. That combination of desire, heartbreak and danger makes it a particularly provocative entry among Dekkoo’s collection of sexy gay movies.
Out For Blood on Dekkoo
Knife + Heart arrives on Dekkoo as the newest addition to this month’s Dekkoo Selects: Out For Blood, our October collection celebrating the darker side of queer cinema.
From killers and creatures to psychological terror and things that go bump in the night, Out For Blood brings together gay and queer films perfect for Halloween viewing — and few movies embody that collision of sexuality, camp and horror quite as spectacularly as Knife + Heart.
The film’s erotic undercurrent also makes it a natural fit for viewers exploring Dekkoo’s steamy gay movies, although Knife + Heart adds considerably more blood to the equation.
Sexy, strange, romantic and unapologetically bloody, Knife + Heart is a horror film with a pulse all its own — and another reason to explore the growing collection of gay movies streaming on Dekkoo.
Stream Knife + Heart now with your Dekkoo subscription.
Then explore the rest of Dekkoo Selects: Out For Blood for more queer horror to sink your teeth into this Halloween season.
