History Film / TheLovedOnes

* AndThisIsFor: When Lola's father's [[spoiler:hammers knives through Brent's feet to nail them to the floor]], his final blow is accompanied by "And that's for the Kingswood!"[[labelnote:Note to non-Australians]]Kingswood is the model name of the car Brent landed on when he fell out of the tree[[/labelnote]]

* 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 and evil event.

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, with marijuana, metal music, and self-harm as his coping mechanisms.

Brent gets knocked out shortly after, and regains consciousness tied to a chair inside Lola's house, where she and her father (whom obsessively dotes over her) are throwing a dance of their own, and she plans on making her personal king pay dearly for rejecting her -- with [[ColdBloodedTorture excruciating force]].

-->"2009's ''The Loved Ones'', a horror film about an obsessed stalker, put Kasey Chambers' hit in the mouth of its villain. But it wasn't subverting the song; it was just making the subtext into text. "Not Pretty Enough" is a ballad about over-stepping boundaries and weaponising self-hatred. The creepiness is already there. It’s a gloriously uncomfortable tilt into the painful things about love."

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

* CallingCard: Lola marks all her 'dates' by carving a love heart 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.]]

** The razor blade Brent uses in an early scene for self-harm. [[spoiler:He uses it to cut himself free of his bonds, making his first, ultimately unsuccessful escape attempt.]]

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 down her offer.

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 myriad of coping mechanisms, from marijuana and metal music to self-harm.

Six months after the accident, the school prom 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 down her offer.

He gets knocked out shortly after, and comes to inside Lola's house, where she and her father (whom obsessively dotes over her) are throwing an end-of-year dance of their own, and she plans on making her personal prom king pay dearly for rejecting her -- with [[ColdBloodedTorture excruciating force]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Brent is able to kill Lola and her father and escape Lola's house; in a wider sense, as the man who caused Brent's car accident was one of Lola's victims, he is also able to avenge his father's death. However, there's no doubt that on top of probably being mute for the rest of his life due to having bleach injected in his vocal cords, he is deeply traumatized from his experiences.]]

* EnfanteTerrible: Lola's been torturing boys for a long time.

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Barring the prologue, the events of the the film take less than 24 hours: starting at the end of the school day and finishing early to mid morning the following day.

%%* {{Gorn}}
%%* GoryDiscretionShot

* MaleGaze: An [[ParentalIncest especially squicky]] example; as Lola puts on the pink dress her father gets her while he's in the room, the camera briefly assumes his perspective and ogles up and down her body as she changes.

While on an average everyday drive with his father, high school senior Brent Mitchell wraps his car 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 myriad of coping mechanisms, from marijuana and metal music to self-harm.

->''What Lola wants, Lola gets.''

''The Loved Ones'' is an Aussie horror (though very darkly comical) film released during the Fall of 2010. After turning down "Princess" Lola Stone's invitation to the prom, teenager Brent Mitchell (Xavier Samuel) finds himself tied up at the girl's home, trapped in a hellish imitation of a prom with Lola (Robin [=McLeavy=]) and her sick father Eric (John Brumpton).

It's ''Literature/{{Misery}}'' meets ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' meets ''Film/{{Audition}}''.

The film received a theatrical release in the United States during the summer of 2012 through Creator/{{Paramount}}'s Insurge Pictures label.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: [[spoiler: Lola's father drives knives through Brent's feet, which is shown in graphic detail]].

* AndThisIsFor: When Lola's father's [[spoiler:hammers knives through Brent feet to nail them to the floor]], his final blow is accompanied by "And that's for the Kingswood!"[[labelnote:Note to non-Australians]]Kingswood is the model name of the car Brent landed on when he fell out of the tree[[/labelnote]]
* AutoErotica: During the school formal, Jamie and Mia are busted by a teacher while having sex in Jamie's car in the school parking lot.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Brent was able to kill Lola and her father, escaping in the process. But, he is probably mute for the rest of his life due to having bleach injected in his vocal chords and, considering he was already depressed before, now he has an even bigger trauma to deal with due to being severely tortured. There's also a final scene in the B-plot, where we find out that Lola's previous victim who escaped the basement and caused Brent's car accident, was the police sergeant's son.]]

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

%%* CarFu: employed by Brent near the end.

** the opening scene where Brent is driving in the car with his father, and has a crash in which his father dies. It's initially used to explain why Brent's in such a depressed frame of mind. [[spoiler:During his torture, Brent has a flashback to the crash, realizing it wasn't his driving at fault; Brent actually swerved to avoid one of Lola's 'past boyfriends', who she later mentions somehow escaped from the basement.]]
** the razor blade Brent uses in an early scene for self-harm. [[spoiler:He uses it to cut himself free of his bonds, making his first, ultimately unsuccessful escape attempt]]
* ChekhovsSkill: In an early scene, Brent is shown rock-climbing without any equipment, including a shot where he pulls himself up almost by his fingertips. [[spoiler:This is how he escapes the basement, once Lola heads out and leaves the trapdoor open.]]

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. Lola sexually assaults Brent at one point and it’s properly portrayed as a horrifying and evil event.

* {{Leitmotif}}: ''Am I Not Pretty Enough'' for Lola.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Lola

* NothingNiceAboutSugarAndSpice: Lola provides the page image, 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.

* ShownTheirWork: Lola and her father's method of [[spoiler: lobotomizing their victims with a power drill]] is similar to Jeffrey Dahmer's method.
* ThisIsADrill: Lola and her father use an electric drill to [[spoiler:drill a hole in the skulls of their victims and then pour in boiling water to lobotomize them. They bore a hole in Brent's skull but never manage to pour the water in]].

* 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 agressive 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.]]

** Given that she's got a lobotomy scar in the middle of her forehead, this is to be expected.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleonMale: Averted. Lola sexually assaults Brent at one point and it’s properly portrayed as a horrifying and evil event.

* AxCrazy: Lola, Lola, Lola...

* BlackComedy

* BreakTheCutie: Brent is on the receiving end of this. Twice.

* CarFu: employed by Brent near the end.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Bright Eyes [[spoiler: and the other previous victims.]]
* {{Gorn}}
* GoryDiscretionShot

* {{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.]]

'''''The Loved Ones''''' is an Aussie horror (though very darkly comical) film released during the Fall of 2010. After turning down "Princess" Lola Stone's invitation to the prom, teenager Brent Mitchell (Xavier Samuel) finds himself tied up at the girl's home, trapped in a hellish imitation of a prom with Lola (Robin [=McLeavy=]) and her sick father Eric (John Brumpton).

* {{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.]]

'''''The Loved Ones''''' is an Aussie horror (though very darkly comical) film released during the Fall of 2010. After turning down Lola's invitation to the prom, teenager Brent finds himself tied up at the girl's home, trapped in a hellish imitation of a prom with Lola and her sick father.