The pregnant daughter sounds just as scary as the mother. The Sylvia Likens story sounds even worst. That's before I realize that it has a real life counterpart. This movie disturbs the audience to their core. The run-of-the-mill torture horror is something manufactured. It is the use of children that is the most disturbing. It is more disturbing than even the worst torture porn generated by Hollywood. David tries to help Meg but he is a powerless boy. Soon the abuse turns to torture and rape as Ruth brings in the neighborhood kids. Ruth belittles the girls teaching her sons to abuse Meg. They are forced to live with their disturbed aunt Ruth Chandler (Blanche Baker) and her three sons. She and her crippled sister Susan from NYC lost their parents in the car accident. In the summer 1958, David Moran befriends Meg Loughlin who had just moved in next door.
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