The first — and only — time I watched Eden Lake was on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in the middle of summer. The football season had just ended and thrown me into my annual existential crisis, the weekends suddenly robbed of all meaning and purpose. In an act of altruism, a mate had lent me a stack of DVDs. Eden Lake happened to be on top of the pile. Knowing almost nothing about the film, I stuck it on, although it was hardly the most atmospheric setting for high-octane horror: family members pottering about at will, sunlight streaming through the windows.
And yet, it remains one of the most brutally terrifying experiences in my film-watching life. It might be fag-packet stuff, but few films have inflicted upon me anything close to that level of gut-wrenching, high-intensity trauma.
Those sorts of hidden meanings are all well and good, but for those of us without professorial levels of intuition, such metaphors have a tendency to sail over our oblivious, uncultured heads.
Eden Lake, on the other hand, does not require a doctorate to decode. The character of the leader has also been created by the similar family environment. The whole town knows about this gang and its actions, but it's doing nothing. Because they're "just kids".
Unfortunately there are plenty of similar cases in the real world. Is there any justice for such criminals or they should be protected because they are "just kids" A difficult survival film with very good acting, but it also shows a social problem, the juvenile criminals that will probably anger many people that watch this film.
Details Edit. Release date September 12, United Kingdom. United Kingdom. Little Terrors. Rollercoaster Films Aramid Entertainment Fund. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 31 minutes.
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Top Gap. What is the Japanese language plot outline for Eden Lake ? See more gaps Learn more about contributing. Edit page. Hollywood Icons, Then and Now. See the gallery. Ghyll Head, LA23; wmbrc. Look slippy if you want to tour the dilapidated multi-storey car park in Trinity Square that Michael Caine chucks his enemy off in Get Carter. Tyneside council have slated it for imminent demolition, and even now only seven of the 11 floors are viewable.
Many of the sinister boozers visited by Caine in the movie are no more either, but you can have an authentically grim time at the West Road crematorium and at Newcastle racecourse High Gosforth Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 , both featured in the crime classic.
Catherine Shoard. It's the oldest naturist sun-club in the UK, and vintage Speilplatz - a mini-village of chalets hidden from view in Hertfordshire's leafy lanes - remains open to those who wish to disrobe for the day you'll have to become a member. Eden Lake is a grisly horror film with a heavily ironic title: what appears to be a forest idyll perfect for a romantic mini-break is actually a lawless deathtrap overrun by homicidal chavs, plus dogs and even more vicious parents.
The location was Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire - a popular choice for film-makers on account of its ancient foliage and proximity to Pinewood studios. Bits and bobs remain: the gas works, that railway signal over Copenhagen Street where Alec Guinness meets his maker. The launderette where the boys hang out, as well as the Golden Tulip cafe where they nurse their crushes on a French waitress, are both real, and both located on the fringes of Phoenix Court, a low-rise council estate on Purchese Street.
It's hard to stand out on Dungeness peninsula, in a landscape where all is strange, windswept, and in which the nuclear power station looms in the background.
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