Robin McLeavy as Lola "Princess" Stone pointing a drill at the screen in The Loved Ones
The Big Picture There are reasons why the 2009 Australian horror film The Loved Ones was a box office flop, only making back $358,399 of its $4 million budget. It might be the dissonance between the marketing and the product. People might've gone into this film expecting a straightforward teen horror film à la Prom Night given the young cast and prom night aesthetic, when it's anything but.
Related A Brief History of Australian Horror, From 'Wolf Creek' to 'Talk to Me' From Ozploitation to splatter films, the Land Down Under knows how to scare us. The Heart Of The Loved Ones Is Brent's Journey Close Another marker of a great splatter film is that beating heart in the middle and here it's an ahead-of-the-curve reversal of The Final Girl.It's Brent's journey of survival. We open the film with Brent and his father getting into a car accident, inadvertently caused by Lola, which takes the life of the latter.
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