As in the short critique Ruins (2008) noted an increasing number recent examples in which the horror of holiday and leisure situations unfolds, increasingly. The British Eden Lake (2008) corresponds exactly to this pattern. Director James Watkins makes in his film, the young couple, Steve and Jenny leave for a weekend on the idyllic Eden Lake. Far away from everyday life looking after a couple of peaceful and romantic days. Neither of the two suspects, however, that a gang of juvenile delinquents, the area around the lake terrorized. Thus, from initial hostility and provocation quickly deadly serious.
The UK DVD cover headline The Best British Horror Film in Years. that are enjoying such statements with caution at all times, is known. But if Eden Lake actually the top of the British horror film is to be counted, one would like to know from the rest nothing. After a consistently good start that can even come up with a sympathetic protagonist, the quality noticeably flattened. What initially made even more hope for a creative horror trip turns out to be later than the first third sucked out as much Backwood Strip. Eden Lake modified in such a beaten path, that the spectators do not even usually give great effort in order to imagine the following Plotwendungen. Or how is it that found in all films of this genre the victims as they fled always persons who are either relatives or friends of the aggressors? It seems any event, a law set in stone to that also observed Eden Lake treudoof. An additional annoyance are so conspicuous plot holes and absurdities that stand out even more so when one does not feel particularly challenged as a viewer of plot. Since it does not help that you are happy "inspired" by colleagues as the French Genre Ils (2006),.
pleasant contrast is striking that Eden Lake relies not only on the explicit depiction of violence, but in this regard is moved in a relatively moderate tracks. Once or twice Watkins actually works with excitement and the feeling of terror. Or at least try. Regarding the final assessment is not easy. An ambivalent feeling is all that remains first decreased. Would be the simple, abrupt end for itself, there would not be split between them. But only the derivation of the final prepared for the genre friend quite a bit of colic. So everything that is left after the credits only a mediocre genre film that is far from exhausting its potential. (5 / 10 points)
PS: all the joys of the British lower class was recommended to the original language.
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