Authorities say McBryde abducted the
teen girl from her home at knifepoint and forced her into an
empty house on Lathrop, where he threatened her with the knife and several guns.
Set mostly in Mark's ornate, marbled estate — with golden gilded furnishings that wouldn't be out of place in the White
House given the current occupant's gaudy taste — «Thoroughbreds» draws a parallel between the vast
empty rooms and its
teen protagonists» vacuity.