Eden Lake

L.A. Weekly by

As a thriller, Eden Lake absolutely works, but feel-good entertainment it isn’t. Don’t bring a date.

Variety by Dennis Harvey

Eden Lake doesn't feel like torture porn so much as a rural-jeopardy thriller in extremis.

Time Out London by Nigel Floyd

The shattering downbeat ending is well earned and genuinely shocking.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

Seriously bloody horrible in every particular, and uncompromisingly bleak to the very end, this looks to me like the best British horror film in years: nasty, scary and tight as a drum.

The Hollywood Reporter by Ray Bennett

Eden Lake has the trappings of a low-IQ thriller but it's really a contemptible tract feeding the prejudices of the U.K.'s rightwing tabloids that claim the country is overrun by teenagers wielding knives.

Empire by Simon Crook

You don't watch it, you survive it. A battering experience, and the hardest Brit horror in years.

The Telegraph by Tim Robey

This slice of class-baiting British ordeal horror from writer-director James Watkins is potently made. It's also exploitative trash, serving up silly levels of alarmist editorialising about kids today.