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Thursday, June 5, 2014

Eden Lake (2008): Too Much Foolishness


I live to watch horror movies. I guess, I’ve watched all the great horror movies you can think of. But this one got my attention while I’m browsing IMDB. It is just recently when I encounter Eden Lake and that moment, I hurried to grab a copy.

I was very excited once I got a copy (please don’t ask me where I got it, it is confidential). But as the movie rolls, I was very DISAPPOINTED. Yes that is in capital letter because I was disappointed in major ways.

They have the right elements of a horror films, but the foolishness of the main character are over the top. The beginning is great and I am beginning to be drawn by it, but at one moment when the leading lady did something very stupid, I was like WTF? I’m confident that a normal person wouldn’t do the same foolishness she did (expect maybe for stupid people). It may be OK that she makes foolish decision once in the movie, but she repeated it several times and that is not really OK.

Anyway, this can still be an average horror movie with way too much foolishness. If you want to get pissed off by that, go ahead and watch it. But if you have a bad temper with that kind of people, DO NOT WATCH IT. You may find yourself slamming your TV, DVD player or laptop.


Here is the great plot: a couple head to the Eden Lake for a weekend adventure. But their vacation was ruined as they encounter a group of rebel TEENAGERS. Their car went missing, they look for it, they found the kids, forced them to give the keys, that resulted to quarrel, then the leader of the group’s dog was accidentally stabbed, the couple run away and then there began the chaos and the foolishness. :)

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