Eden Lake (2008)

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.

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09/12/08

Dispiriting and unpleasant, a trip to Eden Lake will leave most viewers feeling the need for a hot shower and a tetanus jab.

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09/12/08

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.

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09/12/08

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.

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09/12/08

It’s not long before the claret starts to flow. And it won’t be too long before you start eyeing the exit sign.

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09/12/08

A gruelling, grimly effective British chiller.

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10/18/08

Daily Mail scaremongering? Possibly. But formidably well-made, all the same.

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09/12/08

if it gets people talking about youth violence, class conflict and the gulf of social inequality in Britain, then all the better - and if it does not, at least it will give them a frightening, albeit derivative, ride.

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09/05/08

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.

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09/12/08

So harsh, bleak and intense it achieves a level of raw power. A sordid little nightmare of contemporary England.

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