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Panic Pictures, Inc. and director Brett Sullivan follow up the success of their award-winning supernatural drama, The Chair, with a darkly comedic tale of revenge, murder and unrequited incestuous love.
Boo is a half-deaf fourteen year-old boy with only two friends in his sad life: a one-legged dog, and a wheelchair-bound, foul-mouthed haemophiliac. Boo decides that his only hope for escaping his cruel stepfamily and the brutality of small-town life is at the business end of a shotgun. But just before he can pull the trigger, word comes that salvation is at hand: “Denise’s back!” Boo’s infamous seventeen year-old sister is unexpectedly coming home from the juvenile psychiatric facility where she was sent four years earlier, for the gruesome killing of their father under mysterious circumstances.
Denise’s return rekindles smouldering rivalries between her, her stepfamily, and the Huffer Girls, gas-sniffing teens who dole out $20 hand-jobs and obsess over the plight of the penguin. It’s not long before dead bodies start turning up and fingers point at Denise. The murders only increase Boo’s admiration for Denise, and he continues to fantasize about a future with her. But Denise has her own dreams that don’t include Boo; she plans to disappear with Damien, a luckless street magician who has worshipped her from afar. Because of her past, Denise is incapable of returning his affections, or anyone’s for that matter, and that’s okay with the lovesick Damien. Just being near Denise is enough for him.
Driven by desperation and fuelled by his perverted love, Boo ultimately reveals to Damien every vile detail about Denise’s past. Four years ago, Denise murdered her father after bearing his child, and the infant is still among them, frozen in time. In the end, it’s a clash between Damien’s unrequited passion for Denise and Boo’s inappropriate desires, and only Denise will decide whose love will prevail.
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