The Loved Ones (2009)
84 min - Crime | Drama | Horror - 4 November 2010 (Australia)
Brent (Xavier Samuel) is driving with his father in the passenger seat, when a bloodied man appears in the middle of the road. Swerving to avoid hitting the man, Brent's vehicle collides with a tree. Six months later, Brent is planning to attend a high school dance with girlfriend Holly (Victoria Thaine), having refused an offer by Lola Stone (Robin McLeavy). Holly drives the pair on account of the car crash: it is revealed that Brent's father died in the accident. Wracked with guilt, Brent has turned to recreational cannabis use and self-mutilates with a razor blade he keeps on a necklace.
While listening to music, Brent is attacked from behind. Bound to a chair, he wakes up at Lola's house sitting at a table with Lola, her father (John Brumpton), and a lobotomized woman they call Bright Eyes (Anne Scott-Pendlebury). Lola's father has turned his house into a dance for his daughter. Lola takes a syringe and fills it with bleach and injects it into Brent's voice box making him unable to scream or talk. She begins torturing Brent by forcing him to suck on her finger and threatening to nail his penis to the chair when he can't urinate. When she makes a threatening comment about Holly, Brent kicks Lola and manages to escape outside. Lola's father chases Brent up a tree, where he and Lola hurl rocks at Brent, knocking him down. The two bring Brent back inside, and nail his feet to the floor with knives. Lola reveals via a scrap book that she has been abducting many boys throughout her life, including the bloody man, whom turns out to be the brother of the goth girl his friend asked to the prom. This was the man that Brent saw which made him swerve and kill his father. Lola then "draws" on Brent by carving a heart with "L S" in the middle on his chest to which she liberally throws salt on.
After being crowned Queen of her dance, Lola admits to Brent that she is
looking for her prince, which isn't Brent as he is "just another frog".
However, Lola confides in her father that he himself is her prince.
Afterward, Daddy lifts the carpet to reveal a secret trapdoor with the
previous abductees still inside. Lola drills a hole through Brent's
skull as they intend to lobotomize him like their other captives. But
when Lola complains that the hole is too small for her to pour boiling
water into, Brent slashes her father with his pendant necklace. Brent
then attacks Daddy, stabbing him repeatedly in the neck with the knives
Brent pulled out of his feet. Lola jumps on Brent and tries to hit him,
but Brent knocks her out. Brent then pushes Lola's dad into the pit,
where he watches in horror as the near-starved captives eat Daddy. Lola
gets up and throws Brent in, throwing nearby objects at him in anger.
Brent finds a flashlight and hammer that Lola had thrown down, and kills
the abductees as they advance on him. Lola then goes and smothers
Bright Eyes with a pillow, revealing that the woman is her mother.
On a hunch, Holly calls a policeman in the neighborhood. When he gets to
Lola's house, he sees through a window the bloody floor and chair and
breaks in. Brent in an attempt to attract the policeman's attention
makes noise by throwing objects at the doors, alerting the policeman of
his presence. But when he opens the doors, Lola appears behind the
policeman and Brent can't say anything to warn him. Lola drives a meat
cleaver into his face and the policeman falls down, dropping his gun.
Brent attempts to shoot Lola, but she quickly moves out of the way where
she finds Brent's necklace. She then informs Brent that she is going to
go to his house and kill his mother Carle and Holly for murdering her
father and breaking her heart. Brent notices a large pile of bones in
the pit. Using them, as well as the bodies, he manages to climb out.
Lola begins walking on the road with a knife and her scrap book when
she sees a car advance. It's shown to be Holly, so Lola hides and throws
her book at the windshield, distracting Holly to a halt. She then
attempts to kill Holly, but Holly evades Lola and a chase ensues. Brent
is seen driving the police car fast attempting to catch up with Lola. He
sees Holly and nearly hits her but swerves and hits Lola instead. Holly
clambers into the police car, and is shocked to see Brent. The two
embrace tearfully as Lola, severely injured but still not dead, crawls
to kill the pair. They hear the noise of Lola's knife as she drags
herself and Brent reverses the car, striking Lola in the head.
Brent and Holly arrive back home. Carla looks outside the window to
see her son in a brutal state and embraces him after all the horror he
has been through. The last scene shown is that of Brent's face as he is
being held by Carla, looking on and possibly reliving all the events of
what just happened in his mind.
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