![]() ![]() Kevin Chamberlin as Officer Lyle JenningsĪdditionally, Mark Margolis portrays the homeless man struck by a vehicle at the beginning of the film and Peter Stickles portrays an EMT.Graham Patrick Martin as Willie Chandler, Jr.However, as Meg taught him, "It's what you do last that counts." David returns the ring necklace to Meg, who uses the last of her energy to thank David for what he has done and profess her love for him before finally dying from her injuries.īack in 2007, the adult David reflects on how his past still haunts him. The police take Susan from the basement so that she can testify in court, leaving Meg with David. Ruth's sons arrive in the basement, and Willie attempts to cut David’s throat with a knife before Officer Jennings intervenes and arrests the Chandler boys. As Ruth enters, David beats her to death with Susan's crutch. David plans their escape and lights a fire in the basement. Susan reveals that she had confessed to Meg about Ruth molesting her, making Meg hesitant to escape alone. He frees himself from his bindings and finds Susan sitting with an unconscious Meg. Later in the day, David awakes still on the basement floor. David attempts to leave and get help, but the boys tie him up and kick him in the groin before turning their attention back to Meg. Ruth then carves a sexually explicit message into Meg's abdomen with a heated bobby pin and burns her clitoris with a blowtorch. Donny also wishes to rape Meg, but Ruth refuses because she thinks it would be incest for him to "skinny dip in his brother's scum". Meg very nearly escapes but is caught when she comes back for Susan.ĭavid returns to the Chandler house and is guided to the basement, where Meg is being raped by Willie. While they are distracted speaking to the officer, David loosens Meg's bindings and tells her to escape that night, even offering to leave money for her in the woods. Officer Jennings checks in once more, answering another call about Meg’s abuse, but Ruth and her sons convince Officer Jennings that they were simply roughhousing. David tries to tell his parents but is unable to do so. Ruth cauterizes the wounds Meg receives with cigarettes. With Ruth's approval, the neighborhood children visit the Chandler residence to tie, beat, burn and cut Meg for fun. Ruth again spanks Susan's bare bottom as punishment for Meg. ![]() She eventually becomes dehydrated and is unable to even eat the dry toast Ruth tries to feed her. As punishment, Ruth and her sons bind Meg in the basement and torment her, strip her, and then leave her overnight, hanging by the arms from the rafters. Meg reports the abuse to a local police officer named Officer Jennings, but law enforcement does not criminally charge Ruth. Ruth then confiscates Meg's ring necklace that had belonged to her mother. After an incident when Meg hits Ralphie when he inappropriately touches her, Ruth strips and spanks Susan for being a "conniver," forcing Meg to watch. Meanwhile, Ruth starves Meg, subjects her to misogynistic lectures, and accuses her of being a whore while her children listen. ![]() Ruth freely allows her sons' young friends, including David, to her house, where she entertains them and offers them beer and cigarettes. Meg and her disabled sister Susan have lost their parents in a car accident and are now living with their aunt, Ruth Chandler, and her sons, Willie, Ralphie, and Donny. That evening, he reflects on his past in the summer of 1958, when he meets his first teenage crush, Meg Loughlin. ![]() He responds to the situation and tries to resuscitate the victim. In 2007, a man named David Moran witnesses a man hit and run by a car in New York City. ![]()
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