
Nursery teacher Jenny and her boyfriend Steve, escape for a romantic weekend away. Steve, planning to propose, has found an idyllic setting: a remote lake enclosed by woodlands and seemingly deserted. The couple's peace is shattered when a gang of obnoxious kids encircles their campsite. Reveling in provoking the adults, the gang steals the couple's belongings and vandalizes their car leaving them completely stranded. When Steve confronts them, tempers flare and he suffers a ... (Full plot summary below)
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Nursery teacher Jenny and her boyfriend Steve, escape for a romantic weekend away. Steve, planning to propose, has found an idyllic setting: a remote lake enclosed by woodlands and seemingly deserted. The couple's peace is shattered when a gang of obnoxious kids encircles their campsite. Reveling in provoking the adults, the gang steals the couple's belongings and vandalizes their car leaving them completely stranded. When Steve confronts them, tempers flare and he suffers a shocking and violent attack. Fleeing for help, Jenny is subject to a brutal and relentless game of cat-and-mouse as she desperately tries to evade her young pursuers and find her way out of the woods.
Leave your thoughts about Eden Lake.
| Daily Mail (UK)Christopher TookeyIt 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. |
| TheHorrorShowScott WeinbergWorks exceedingly well, and will probably stick in your gut for a little while. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyEden Lake doesn't feel like torture porn so much as a rural-jeopardy thriller in extremis. |
| Metro (UK)Larushka Ivan-ZadehIt's the latest proof that, when it comes to scary movies at least, the British film industry is alive and screaming. |
| L.A. WeeklyLuke Y. ThompsonAs a thriller, Eden Lake absolutely works, but feel-good entertainment it isn’t. Don’t bring a date. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawSeriously 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. |
| Eye for FilmAnton Bitelif 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. |
| TeletextVictor OlliverInstead of Deliverance's deep backwoods hicks we have now backwoods chavs who live a life unscrutinised by cops or anyone. Watkins has consumed all those tabloid hoodie tales and regurgitated a horror. |
| Empire MagazineSimon CrookYou don't watch it, you survive it. A battering experience, and the hardest Brit horror in years. |
| Film4Daniel EtheringtonSo harsh, bleak and intense it achieves a level of raw power. A sordid little nightmare of contemporary England. |