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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 The Loved Ones
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Brent is a seventeen-year-old high-school student who has turned to marijuana and his girlfriend Holly to cope with the grief of accidentally killing his father in a car accident. When he turns down a request from Lola Stone, the quietest girl in class, to attend the school dance with her, he has no idea what plans Lola and her father have in mind--but if Lola wants to be queen of the dance, Daddy will make sure it happens.

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  • The promotional trailer for this film is available to view via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb5BFm4qIow (Sighted: 19/7/2012)

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The 15 Greatest Australian Horror Films – Sorted Briony Kidd , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 30 May 2022;

'From a film made in Adelaide for less than $10,000 to gory and haunting classics, here are some flicks that will keep you up at night'

Theorising Film Festivals as Distributors and Investigating the Post-Festival Distribution of Australian Films Lauren Carroll Harris , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 11 no. 2 2017; (p. 46-58)

This paper theorises film festivals as distribution circuits, positioning film festivals in the broader cinema ecology to assess their role in delivering local films to local audiences. Recasting current research trends into film festivals through the lens of distribution enables us to see how festivals function as more than another exhibition screen - as a type of distributor. I offer a case study of Sydney Film Festival to explore the following research questions: What is the distributive function and nature of film festivals for Australian films? What happens to local titles following their festival runs? How can we explain the gap between Australian films' continued popularity at film festivals and their continued under-performance in the rest of the marketplace? In answering these questions, this article demonstrates how film festivals have become crucial to both the Australian film industry and the cinema industry at large over the last 10 years, to the point that they have almost replaced the art-house circuit and come to provide an essential, highly specialised distribution channel for small to medium budget films. For this reason, I argue that material and economic drivers are as essential to the current boon in film festivals as cultural ones, and that the film festival circuit has not been able to address the problem of distribution for auteurist, independent and art cinema in an age of digitisation. I present evidence that localises, concretises and specifies festival research, suggesting the major festivals in Australia are an increasingly discrete and self-contained distribution sector within the wider cinema ecology, which has significant implications for theorisations of festivals as feeders for theatrical circuits.

Variety Reigns on Film's Big Night Michael Bodey , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 31 January 2012; (p. 17)
Sydney Film Festival Cec Busby , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Lesbians on the Loose , June vol. 21 no. 6 2010; (p. 24)
Teen Depression Nightmare Tim Kroenert , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 8 November vol. 20 no. 22 2010;

— Review of The Loved Ones Sean Byrne , 2009 single work film/TV
New Voice of Horror Drills Home Humour Paul Byrnes , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28 October 2010; (p. 19)

— Review of The Loved Ones Sean Byrne , 2009 single work film/TV
Party Animal Jake Wilson , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 30 October 2010; (p. 22)

— Review of The Loved Ones Sean Byrne , 2009 single work film/TV
A Slick Sick Flick Leigh Paatsch , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 4 November 2010; (p. 42)

— Review of The Loved Ones Sean Byrne , 2009 single work film/TV
Blood and Guts Evan Williams , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 November 2010; (p. 20-21)

— Review of The Loved Ones Sean Byrne , 2009 single work film/TV
Film Phil Brown , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 3 - 9 November no. 808 2010; (p. 32)

— Review of The Loved Ones Sean Byrne , 2009 single work film/TV
Untitled Michael Bodey , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 23 September 2009; (p. 17)
Untitled Michael Bodey , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 3 November 2010; (p. 17)
Deadly in Pink Simon Weaving , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 6 November 2010; (p. 31-32)
It's Horror on the Dance Floor Jemise Anning , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Illawarra Mercury , 4 November 2010; (p. 28)
The Loved Ones actress, Robin McLeavy describes her experience of making the movie as 'psychologically intense'. Director Sean Burns talks about serial killers and how, in reality, 'most of them slip through the cracks'.
Sydney Film Festival Cec Busby , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Lesbians on the Loose , June vol. 21 no. 6 2010; (p. 24)
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