Karry
Best movie of this year hands down!
Linkshoch
Wonderful Movie
VividSimon
Simply Perfect
Sexyloutak
Absolutely the worst movie.
bricslove
That reason being the movie's ability to call people out on their apathy and ignorance-is-bliss attitude. Viewers are of different types. Some do not have fun watching certain movies, but they still value those movies. I am one of those viewers.What viewers like me enjoy is that there is someone who is out there and as disturbed by the growing apathy in society as we are and by the fact that we haven't been doing much about it. The following are masterfully shown in the movie sporadically or throughout:-the apple does not fall far from the tree, sickness breeds sickness.-needing a sense of belonging makes you vulnerable to sickness. caving in to peer pressure is also a very real problem. and most important of all,-that this is a vicious circle unless enough people care about itThe psychopaths in this movie, unlike many horror-thrillers out there are by no means glamorized. If they were, then I could call this a sick movie but it is quite the opposite case. Very good acting. K. Reilly is a late discovery for me. Younger actors who played the psychopathic kids and the assimilated psycho kiddos in the making... all did a fascinating job... unless they didn't have to act.
Food for thought for those who think this is one mean, mindless torture porn: Would you call Lord of the Flies a despicable, dehumanizing book? or Ciudade de Deus such a movie?Also: what goes punished in the world and what doesn't?
fredgfinklemeyer
07/25/2018 Viewers will be drawn in very quickly and further immersion into this two innocent adult victims versus six evil teenagers is guaranteed. This movie was made in the UK and is Hollywood ending free. Bon Appetit
rphillips2
Regardless of what chaplinpadua said about this movie I thought it was brilliant.
spencergrande6
This is of a theme with the 00's European horror films. A fear of youths. Hoodie horror I've heard it called. Its roots are steeped in "The Last House on the Left" and "I Spit on Your Grave". Men get it here too. Growing up and becoming square is the ultimate evil.This movie and its ilk are clearly made by men who have grown up and haven't quite come to grips with how old they are yet. They feel young inside but are afraid of the actual young because they don't recognize them or their interests - they have nothing in common anymore. It's all the same from generation to generation but this generation just so happens to be the first truly weened on pop culture - specifically movies and TV telling them how important and special their childhoods were (see the 80's nostalgia parade that just won't end).There's a lot of good tension here but it's all in service of pure torture (also an 00's theme). Eden Lake is hurtful and mean and unrelenting in its nihilism. This is both good and bad. If it had more to say it might be good, but it's really a genre exercise about a final woman outsmarting these terrible kids (their inexplicable brutality just suddenly happens with little build-up or explanation - it lacks the surreal unknown of "Them (Ils)"). It all works but to what end? At a certain point you just start rolling your eyes when the main character does something like bury herself in a pile of poopy sludge.