Back in July Mike told you all about an Australian flick called THE LOVED ONES. Right off the bat the flick looked all kinds of interesting and today we’ve scored a bunch of details along with some stills from the Toronto International Film Festival.
THE LOVED ONES is set to hit the fest next month and the official website threw up a handful of stills for it, including some we haven’t seen yet. Go ahead and check those out above and below. The TIFF also offers a much more detailed synopsis: In order to avoid a ghostly figure in the road, high-school senior Brent Mitchell (Xavier Samuel) wraps his car around a tree, killing his father. Constantly confronted by his mother’s emotional collapse after the accident, Brent escapes into a marijuana-fuelled world of loud metal music to block the pain and guilt. Dejected and out of sorts, he has a shot at happiness with his girlfriend Holly, a grounded, caring girl with drop-dead good looks – a dream date for the high-school prom. But his plans are thwarted by a disturbing series of events that take place under a mirrored disco ball, involving pink satin, glitter, syringes, nails, power drills and a secret admirer. Brent has become the prom king at a macabre, sadistic event where he is the entertainment.
Director Sean Byrne aimed to make a film combining THE EVIL DEAD and CARRIE…… and THE LOVED ONES was born. Byrne hopes to score both laughs and and fear from the audience with THE LOVED ONES, often at the same time! To read up a bit more on what we can expect from the film you can head right over HERE. Let’s be honest now… how many of us have escaped to a ‘marijuana-fuelled world of loud metal music to block the pain and guilt’ at one time or another?
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