Hollywood Reporter
Eden Lake has the trappings of a low-IQ thriller but it's really a contemptible tract feeding the prejudices of the U.K.'s rightwing tabloids that claim the country is overrun by teenagers wielding knives.
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Eden Lake
Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone) and two-time Oscar nominee Michael Fassbender play a couple on a romantic getaway who confront a rowdy gang of youths. However, their decision heralds grave and horrifying consequences.
2008Rating: R18+, High impact violence91 minsUK
HorrorThriller
- Director:
- James Watkins
- Writer:
- James Watkins
- Cast:
- Kelly ReillyMichael FassbenderJack O'ConnellFinn Atkins
Eden Lake / Reviews
The Telegraph
This slice of class-baiting British ordeal horror from writer-director James Watkins is potently made. It's also exploitative trash, serving up silly levels of alarmist editorialising about kids today.
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You don't watch it, you survive it. A battering experience, and the hardest Brit horror in years.
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The Guardian
Seriously bloody horrible in every particular, and uncompromisingly bleak to the very end, this looks to me like the best British horror film in years: nasty, scary and tight as a drum.
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