The torture-porn genre gets a Day-Glo makeover in this hilariously deranged Ocker shocker. Xavier Samuel stars as Brent, the unfortunate youth who makes the mistake of turning down a date to the school dance from Lola (Robin McLeavy), a seemingly sweet but rather plain fellow student. As revenge, she gets her adoring dad (John Brumpton) to kidnap him and then sets about re-creating the dance at her own house - and just to make sure Brent behaves like the perfect date, the deranged duo have a range of knives, power tools and other lethal implements at their disposal to help him get into the right party mood. The bodily harm inflicted by writer/director Sean Byrne on the hapless Brent is wince-inducing in the extreme, but the cheerful black humour means it's never nastily exploitative. The result is the best Australian horror flick since Wolf Creek and an instant cult classic.

When Brent turns down his classmate Lola's invitation to the prom, she concocts a wildly violent plan for revenge.