History Film / TheLovedOnes

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Lola's father is angry that Brent hit a girl. He's also uncomfortable with Lola's attempted incest and mistreatment of Bright Eyes.

* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler: Lola's former victims are still alive and locked in the house basement under a hidden trap door. However they are twisted into aggressive, irrational beings, due to all of them being lobotomized, locked in the dark for so long and literally treated as beasts by her father, who feed them with raw dead animals he picks on roads.]]

** Early in the film, Brent and Holly have sex in Brent's car...with Lola watching.

* DropTheHammer: A claw hammer is one of the tools Lola's father uses to torture Brent.

%%* FateWorseThanDeath: Bright Eyes [[spoiler: and the other previous victims.]]

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Lola's father has his neck slashed by Brent with kitchen knifes and then falls under the hidden trap door, where the lobotomized former victims of Lola's [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill eat his body]].]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: during Brent's torture-induced flashback, [[spoiler:he realizes that the car crash that killed his father happened not because of Brent's driving, but because one of Lola's previous victims suddenly appeared in the road. Lola mentions that one of her previous 'boyfriends' escaped, and wandered off into the hills, where he presumably died of exposure or dehydration. It's not until the last scenes that the viewer realizes that it must have been Tim, the missing son of the police sergeant.]] Did Brent ever get to put two and two together? [[spoiler: Or will Mia and her mother never find out what happened to him, in addition to mourning their father and husband?]]

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Portrayed as InsaneTrollLogic.

* EnfantTerrible: As her book shows, Lola's been torturing boys for a long time.

* OedipusComplex: Lola. She is clearly jealous and hateful to her mother, and wants her father to love her back. [[spoiler:After her father's death, she makes sure to kill her mother, which is something she likely wanted to do a long time ago.]]

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. Lola fellates Brent at one point after making him pull his penis out to urinate, and it’s properly portrayed as a horrifying event.

While on a drive with his father, high school senior Brent Mitchell ends up swerving his car and is unable to regain control before it wraps around a tree. While Brent survives, his father dies in the crash, and the combination of his pain and guilt alongside his mother's subsequent emotional collapse pushes him into a dark mental state.

* CallingCard: Lola marks all her "dates" by carving a love heart and her initials into their bare chests...with a ''fork''. [[spoiler: It enables Brent to realize that his car crash was caused by one of Lola's previous victims.]]

* NothingNiceAboutSugarAndSpice: Lola even provides the page image; she's a DaddysLittleVillain and an insane {{yandere}} in a bright pink dress whose overly-invested father makes a "prom" for her every year where they kidnap a teenage guy, torture him, and force him to go along with their sadistic games before drilling a hole in his head and locking him in their basement to be tortured even more and starve.

Six months after the accident, the end-of-year school dance is on the horizon. Although Brent plans to go with his girlfriend Holly, he is approached one day by the meek, shy Lola Stone, and turns her down when she asks him to be her date.

While on an average everyday drive with his father, high school senior Brent Mitchell ends up swerving his car and is unable to regain control before it wraps around a tree. While Brent survives, his father dies in the crash, and his pain and guilt, worsened by his mother's subsequent emotional collapse, pushes him into a dark mental state.

* GoryDiscretionShot: For how much of the film centers around torture and violence, quite little of it is explicitly depicted onscreen; many graphic acts, including [[spoiler:Brent having knives hammered into his feet]] and [[spoiler:Lola drilling a hole into Brent's head]], are largely left to the audience's imagination.

* ParentalIncest: Although Lola and her father have never slept together, it is clear that both want to. Lola being the aggressor in this case. Unlike her, her father at least seems somewhat hesitant, and understandably so.

%%* {{Yandere}}: Lola. Alternately, she could just be CuteAndPsycho, especially since [[spoiler:she was actually in love with her father, not any of the boys she kidnapped and tortured.]]

* ElectraComplex: Lola. She is clearly jealous and hateful to her mother, and wants her father to love her back. [[spoiler: After her father's death, she makes sure to kill her mother, which is something she likely wanted to do a long time ago.]]
* EnfanteTerrible: As her book shows, Lola's been torturing boys for a long time.

* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: Brent kicks Lola in his first attempt to escape]]. Justified, because she tortured and tried to kill him. [[spoiler:He later punches her in the face twice.]]

* DaddysGirl: This is a ''major'' understatement in Lola and her father's case.

''The Loved Ones'' is a Australian horror[=/=]{{black comedy}} film written and directed by Sean Byrne in his feature directorial debut. It was screened at various film festivals during 2009 and 2010, eventually receiving a theatrical release in the United States during the summer of 2012 through Creator/{{Paramount}}'s Insurge Pictures label.

While on an average everyday drive with his father, high school senior Brent Mitchell ends up swerving his car and is unable to regain control before it wraps around a tree. While Brent survives, his father dies in the crash, and his pain and guilt, exacerbated by his mother's subsequent emotional collapse, pushes him into a dark mental state.

** During the school formal, Jamie and Mia are busted by a teacher while having sex in Jamie's car in the school parking lot.

* BewareTheQuietOnes: Both Lola and her father. However there is a major difference. Lola seems quiet and shy at first, but is actually very loud and wicked once Brent is captured. Her father on the other hand seems very reserved and quiet in personality, even when doing horrible things.

* CarCushion: Lola and her father force Brent out of a tree by throwing rocks at him. He loses his grip on the branch, falls out of the tree, and lands painfully on the bonnet of the Kingswood ute, before bouncing off.

* DullSurprise: At the end of the film, Brent's mom [[spoiler: sees him with several signs of torture in his body, including a hole in the skull and the only thing she does is hug Brent with a dull expression. She doesn't seem to look shocked, scared or even worried.]]

* GroinAttack: Just barely subverted. [[spoiler:When Lola finds out that Brent needs to urinate, she pulls his penis out and gives him 10 seconds to pee into a cup before her father nails his penis to the chair. He manages to make it happen with one second left.]]

* SacrificialLion: the [[spoiler:police Sergeant who goes out searching for Brent, and actually finds Brent in the basement, only to be killed before he can get Brent out. Lola callously shoves his body through the trapdoor... and added to the stack of her previous victims corpses, manages to lift Brent ''just'' high enough in the air that he can reach the rim of the trapdoor and finally escape.]]