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Genres:
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Horror /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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James Watkins
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Actors:
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Shaun Dooley,
Thomas Turgoose,
Lorraine Stanley,
Jumayn Hunter,
Tara Ellis,
Finn Atkins,
James Burrows,
Thomas Gill,
James Gandhi,
Rachel Gleeves,
Kelly Reilly,
Michael Fassbender,
Jack O'Connell,
Lorraine Bruce,
Bronson Webb
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Duration:
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87 min.
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Rating:
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(7/10)121
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Plot Summary:
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This decidedly British take on the likes of Michael Haneke's FUNNY GAMES and the French shocker THEM finds boyish counsellor Jenny (KELLY REILLY - MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS, Self-respect AND Slant) and boyfriend Steve (Michael Fassbender - Voracity, 300) enjoying a peaceful holiday at the eponymous idealized looker splotch. However, Jenny and Steve's tranquil break is thrown into anarchy when a gather of teenagers surround their site and begin to victimise them...
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Tags:
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Harrowingly good
It was quite hard to rate this, because whilst it was a very well made and gripping film, I found it rather hard to watch.
I absolutely love horror films and I'm not squeamish. But this film affected me in the same way that Wolf Creek did - it was too realistic.
The violence was absolutely barbaric and whilst it wasn't the twisted kind of stuff they dream up for films like Saw, it was a lot more real and I actually felt sad and upset watching some scenes.
It left me feeling a bit shell shocked afterwards and that doesn't happen very often.
I'd recommend this film to all horror fans.
Eden Lake
I hated Them, the much lauded French home invasion horror, of which I said that it ends where any horror movie worth it’s salt would begin. Well Eden Lake plays like what probably happened after the end of Them, and it turns out that I didn’t miss much.
A full half hour of scene setting achieves very little by giving us getting to know you time with a middle class couple (Rielly and Fassbender) that ends up in us getting to know nothing at all about them beyond the simple fact that Rielly is a school teacher (which we find out in the very first scene) and that Fassbender is planning to propose to her (which we find out through the hackneyed device of him gazing at the ring he’s bought her). Neither has anything established in their character that is put to use later, ...
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