Angel-voiced Z Berg teams up with gravel-voiced Keith Carradine on a version of the old favourite Love Hurts from the Strange Darling soundtrack.

I’m a sucker for boy-girl harmony vocals where a gravelly voiced older dude sings the lead, leavened by the sweeter sound of a younger woman.

I’m thinking Leonard Cohen (and Nancy Priddy), Nick Cave (and Kylie Minogue); that sort of thing. So it’s no surprise that I love this version of Love Hurts by Keith Carradine and Z Berg.

Especially as it soundtracks a key scene in Strange Darling, a new indie thriller that takes a kinky one-night stand to terrifying new places.

“Are you a serial killer?” asks a woman sitting in a pick-up truck with a man she just met at a bar, in the opening scene. “Do you have any idea of the risks a woman like me takes every time she agrees to have a bit of fun?”

In the film the song plays out as we watch Willa Fitzgerald – seriously great in the lead role of ‘The Lady’ – running for her life across a field, blood seeping from one ear, pursued by Kyle Gallner as ‘The Demon’.

That’s not a spoiler, by the way.

The rest of the soundtrack is really good too: Z Berg’s angelic vocals have just the right sinister edge for a film that tackles the issue of consent in the #MeToo era, relying on tension for its thrills.