The TIFF website provided the following synopsis of The Loved Ones: A troubled teen’s prom dreams are shattered by a series of painful events that take place under the mirrored disco ball, involving syringes, nails, power drills, and a secret admirer in this wild mash-up of Pretty in Pink and Misery.
The runner-up was the equally highly praised Daybreakers (review here) from Michael and Peter Spierig, in which a plague has transformed the majority of the world’s population into vampires.
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