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A brutal and effective British hoodie-horror that, despite the clichés, stays on the right side of scary.
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A brutal and effective British hoodie-horror that, despite the clichés, stays on the right side of scary.
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A romantic weekend in the woods turns into a bloody struggle for survival when a vacationing couple finds their campsite surrounded by an aggressive gang of obnoxious adolescents in the feature directorial debut of My Little Eye screenwriter James Watkins. All nursery school teacher Jenny and her boyfriend, Steve, wanted was a quiet weekend alone, and what better setting for such a romantic retreat than a quiet lake surrounded by a vast forest? Just as Steve is preparing to propose to Jenny,
Oct 31, 2008 Wide
Jan 6, 2009
Third Rail Releasing
All Critics (26) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (20) | Rotten (4) | DVD (6)
An effectively harrowing Brit thriller-cum-horror pic whose yuppie protags' weekend getaway runs violently afoul of the local youth.
Well acted, well directed, and totally intense, 'Eden Lake' is the best horror film to come out of the UK in years.
It's not your typical "wooded horror" movie, but Eden Lake works exceedingly well, and will probably stick in your gut for a little while.
A well acted, smartly directed horror flick that's gory, disturbing, terrifying and topical.
A gruelling, grimly effective British chiller.
...while Eden Lake is effective, something feels not quite right about cheering for prepubescent kids to get their fatal comeuppance.
It is impossible not to admire the way Watkins ratchets up the tension in his debut as director (he wrote My Little Eye) and keeps his tale strictly to 90 minutes.
Daily Mail scaremongering? Possibly. But formidably well-made, all the same.
Eden Lake: pursuit, persecution, violent death.
It is not often that The Sneak feels like walking out of a movie. But this exploitative, patronising and nauseatingly violent take on Britain's yob culture had your critic eyeing up the exit.
It's not long before the claret starts to flow. And it won't be too long before you start eyeing the exit sign.
It doesn't fight shy of a truly frightening final twist, which makes it not only bleaker but also more truthful than virtually every other movie in this genre, which all too often is over-populated and under-humanised.
Frustratingly, there is potential in Watkins' claustrophobic, back-to-nature setting, but, in trying to play 'edgy' with contemporary anxieties, his cooked-to-formula script merely sinks to the level of the gutter press exploiting those fears.
Dispiriting and unpleasant, a trip to Eden Lake will leave most viewers feeling the need for a hot shower and a tetanus jab.
For all the brutality of the confrontation with knife-weilding, car-nicking local scum - think Stanley knives gouging out tongues - it's never far off ludicrous.
This looks to me like the best British horror film in years: nasty, scary and tight as a drum.
One of the most disturbing Horror film to ever come out of the UK in years. This film will stay long in your mind even after the last (Horrifying) scene. The acting is superb especially from back then the Unknown Michael Fassbender. The story maybe a bit far fetched but will still has you gripped from start to finish.
March 7, 2012Super Reviewer
Forget Aliens, Piranha, axe-wielding masked metal patients and disease-carrying monkey's, its Ferrel kids that scares me. Kids who don't give a flying toss about circumstances, what happens to themselves or others, who aren't scared of repercussions of their own actions and have absolutely no emotion attached to their
March 5, 2012Super Reviewer
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