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Eden Lake

Play trailer 1:50 Poster for Eden Lake R 2008 1h 31m Horror Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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During a romantic weekend getaway, a young couple confronts a gang of youths, and suffers brutal consequences.
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Critics Consensus

A brutal and effective British hoodie-horror that, despite the clichés, stays on the right side of scary.

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Dennis Harvey Variety 11/03/2008
An effectively harrowing Brit thriller-cum-horror pic whose yuppie protags' weekend getaway runs violently afoul of the local youth. Go to Full Review
Derek Malcolm London Evening Standard 09/12/2008
3/5
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. Go to Full Review
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh Metro Newspaper (UK) 09/12/2008
4/5
It's the latest proof that, when it comes to scary movies at least, the British film industry is alive and screaming. Go to Full Review
Patrick Cavanaugh The Wolfman Cometh Sep 12
2/5
Gets points for the gut-punch of an ending, but the journey to get there isn't entirely fulfilling, despite the talent involved. Go to Full Review
Grant Watson Fiction Machine 10/01/2024
2/10
This is grossly irresponsible, deeply unlikeable filmmaking. Go to Full Review
Casey Chong Casey's Movie Mania 09/09/2024
4/5
[An] uncompromisingly bleak film about a vacation goes awry. Go to Full Review
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Naïra F @Naira540 5d Disgusting end. The plot is horrible. See more Sam M @SamOM 6d You often hear stories about directors flirting with alternative endings during production. I feel like this director picked the wrong ending here, and there were so many possibilites.. A brave movie, but not something I could recommend See more Jersey H @Jersey718 Jan 10 The ending sucks. When I encounter them I'll take their skulls for the yautja. See more VITALII H @freakynickison Jan 4 Although it’s a low budget movie I don’t remember the last time I was so much worried about the main characters’s lives in a movie in a long time. A romantic couple went to a lake for a little escape and then found out that the local gang of teenagers stole their car and it gets very ugly from there. It turns into a realistic and graphic hunger games episode. I really liked the plot, the actors were good and I think that the movie is worth a watch. The creators did their best with what they got simply put. See more Cameron B @cam432 Dec 22 Made an account on here just to leave a bad review on this movie. Waste of time. Terrible terrible movie. The director needs to be jailed. See more Dan B @AverageDan Dec 17 A bunch of English adolescents is not scary. Kinda lame See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis During a romantic weekend getaway, a young couple confronts a gang of youths, and suffers brutal consequences.
Director
James Watkins
Producer
Christian Colson, Richard Holmes
Screenwriter
James Watkins
Distributor
Third Rail
Production Co
Rollercoaster Films, Aramid Entertainment Fund
Rating
R (Pervasive Language|Brief Drug Use|Some Nudity|Strong Brutal Violence)
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 31, 2008, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$5.8K
Runtime
1h 31m
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