2010 · horror · revenge · coming-of-age
The Loved Ones
Directed by Sean Byrne1h 24m2010
When Brent turns down his classmate Lola's invitation to the prom, she concocts a wildly violent plan for revenge.
Our read: The Loved Ones (2010) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · revenge · coming-of-age entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / revenge, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
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