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The Loved Ones review
[Thu 10/02/2011 02:38:51]
By Nick Dent
This is some nasty shit, right here. Sean Byrne's debut feature is a ghastly gore-fest with an eye towards the conventions of the genre (oversexed teens, prom night) and a fearless desire to plumb the depths of depravity (knives, forks, needles, power drills, boiling water). And just to rub salt into the wounds, they rub salt into the wounds – and play an excruciating Kasey Chambers song over and over on the soundtrack.
High school heartthrob Brent (Xavier Samuel) casually rejects the request of his mousy classmate Lola (Robin McLeavy) that he take her to the school dance; so Lola and her looney-tunes dad (John Brumpton) kidnap him and set to work torturing him under the mirror ball in their kitchen. Meanwhile Brent's clumsy friend Jamie (Richard Wilson) attends the dance with self-destructive Goth girl Mia (Jessica McNamee), whose father (Andrew S Gilbert) is a local cop and might be Brent's only hope of salvation. But don't bet on it.
The savagery here has no redeeming social value and the characters are not especially interesting, but who cares when the terror is this relentless? Sick, twisted and creepy, The Loved Ones will drill a hole right into your brain and leave you twitching and terrified.
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