Review of Eden Lake

Eden Lake (2008)
5/10
Brutally, horrifying, terrifyingly (illogical and over the top implausible)
24 April 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Yes, it was brutal. Yes, there was horror and terror.

But hell, was it illogical and over the top implausible! I know one should not relate a horror movie too much to the real world, and I would not have done so, if only the scriptwriter wasn't so anxiously trying to make me think this could really happen to anybody, anywhere in the UK. Of course, there is shitty youth in every town on earth, but to walk into the national champion of psychopathy under the age of 16 at the edge of a lake in the middle of nowhere is a little too much for me. That besides the fact that these people keep immobilizing themselves and keep on coming back to the same spot where they have been molested, in these (what appears to be) massive woods, over and over again.

Then, when the girl crawls out of the dumpster looking like Uma Thurman in Kill Bill II, and I just started to think that this might become interesting, she only escapes to drive into... What did I say about too much implausible?

After watching this movie I was angry too, like everyone else who watched it. Because of the ending (yes you will blame the youth of the world after this) but also, after two seconds, because it is an all too easily instigated sentiment.
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