Synopsis
When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.
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Cast
- Kelly ReillyJenny
- Michael FassbenderSteve
- Jack O'ConnellBrett
- Finn AtkinsPaige
- Thomas TurgooseCooper
- James BurrowsHarry
- Lorraine BruceTanya
- Jumayn HunterMark
- Shaun DooleyJon
- Bronson WebbReece
Recommendations
- 80
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. - 80
L.A. Weekly
As a thriller, Eden Lake absolutely works, but feel-good entertainment it isn’t. Don’t bring a date. - 80
Time Out London
The shattering downbeat ending is well earned and genuinely shocking. - 80
Empire
You don't watch it, you survive it. A battering experience, and the hardest Brit horror in years. - 70
Variety
Eden Lake doesn't feel like torture porn so much as a rural-jeopardy thriller in extremis. - 40
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. - 30
The 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.
