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Eden Lake (2008)
2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :-
Chilling Horror worth watching!, 28 August 2008
Author: heart_land from United Kingdom
Saw this at Frighfest08 London! Fantastic movie, visually looked great. Couple get harassed by local youths and one mans pride turns the situation into a living nightmare. Really good pacing right till the end, started a teeny weeny bit twee with the couple being just a bit too nice and laughing geekily but thats OK, as the rest was ACE! worth watching!!! little torture bit in it isn't too bad, i don't usually like torture films, this wasn't one of them as it was needed for the plot and done with some taste, the hoodie boys are brilliant, superb acting they were pretty believable actually, and the lead actress Jenny was good, end sequence is pretty CHILLING!- which is a rarity these days.
1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful :-
Tought but good movie, 13 August 2008
Author: marc27ffm from Berlin, Germany
I just saw this movie last night at the start of the fantasy film festival in berlin. It is a tough thriller which lives without fancy film locations or many people. It has an actual topic, also it was written 2005 - before the news brought the youth gang problems to public attention.
And a warning: it is not a movie to which you go on your first date. It contains scenes of torture and death, however not exploitable but necessary for the plot line and its characters, and in that way not too strong or too long.
A good movie for me is one which evokes strong emotions within the film (not against it ;-) ). If it can make me really love in a comedy, or put me under total suspense for a thriller, etc. This movie made me angry and hateful, so yes, for me its a good movie.
1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful :-
I can recommend it, 13 August 2008
Author: lucydique from Germany
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
The plot of the movie, as some people have already noticed reminds a lot of "Ils". Though the theme is basically the same, the way to introduce it is quite different. "Ils" had a bit of a darker atmosphere, i would say, while this one has more tension. Some scenes reminded me of "High Tension", though "Eden Lake" is, let's say "lighter". The French and the British have indeed two different ways of making movies. As someone has already said on the board, you notice that one of them is French and the other one is not, if British or not, i couldn't say, since i don't know many British horror movies, but from the way it is done, it is to be noticed that, despite of the similarities to some French movies, it is not one of them.
The movie is quite entertaining, it keeps your attention all the time, it is quite thrilling and it is not very predictable, these would be the positive aspects.
Though I have enjoyed the movie quite much, I still find some aspects which are not that great, first of all the topic is not new: as I already mentioned, the topic is basically the same as in "Ils". I also found the two adult actors not very convincing, given the situations. They were not bad, but sometimes I found their reactions a bit too soft for the given situation. I cannot say what was "wrong" or what they could have done differently, but my impression was that it "kinda doesn't fit completely". They were good, though.
*****SPOILER********** The end was somehow unexpected and I have liked it... still not 100% new, it reminded me a bit of "Michael Bay's TCM", when she "meets the parents", still, the very end was good, very hopeless, which is not so common in horror movies.
Maybe I have focused in my review more on the negative aspects, but all in all i liked the movie quite much and i would recommend it. 8/10.
3 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :-
not entertaining but worth being watched, 13 August 2008
Author: Kosinus from Hamburg, Germany
When I say "not entertaining", I maybe address a rather personal issue. So nothing to worry about... Some movies are clearly fictitious, morally it's easy for me to enjoy what's on the big screen. Some are not... Starting back a few years ago, imho, the story and the setting gradually migrated into something more and more realistic. This way audience gets confronted with voyeurism... that's what I would call a moral dilemma... some movies (e.g. hostel) chose a real-world setting with a (hopefully) fictitious story... others, like this one, gives us a feeling like it could happen anytime and anywhere... This movie may be considered as horror or thriller... just suspense... It also opens space for social reflection. Projection of fears from within our world, our society...
Thus "Eden Lake" might be considered as a perfect horror-movie... confronting us with our real fears while trying to entertain us.
For me? It's too close to reality to be just the innocent pleasure of watching...
0 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :-
vile, 3 September 2008
Author: Neil Young (neil@cudas.demon.co.uk) from Sunderland, England
Thuddingly opportunistic yuppie-nightmare Brit-horror is unbearably gruelling to endure - but NOT in the way the filmmakers intended. Ludicrous (sometimes even hilarious) as a thriller, it has a crass fear-of-the-underclass subtext that's much more repellent than the (gratuitous) bloodshed on view.
Fans of Thomas Turgoose (who gets a misleadingly prominent billing in the opening credits) should go and see 'Somers Town' again instead: he's very much a minor background figure here and has hardly anything to do.
Everyone else should also steer well clear. I like harrowing shockers as much as the next gorehound - there's a niftily nasty little British movie at the moment called 'Mum & Dad' that shows how the genre can work - but pretty much everything about 'Eden Lake' stinks to high heaven (I'm tempted to say 'would you Adam and Eve it?')
Shame, shame, shame on you, James Watkins.
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