Eden Lake

Name: Eden Lake
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Released: 2008-09-12
Duration: 1 h 31 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Jack O'Connell, Finn Atkins, Thomas Turgoose

A weekend by the lake, with views to die for.

Eden Lake (2008)

Timing: 1:31 (91 min)

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Release date

2008-09-12

Country

United Kingdom

Production

Rollercoaster Films, Aramid Entertainment Fund

Genre

Horror, Thriller

Budget

$12 850 990

Box office

$3 983 997

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Director

James Watkins

Actors

Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Jack O'Connell, Finn Atkins, Thomas Turgoose, James Burrows, Lorraine Bruce, Jumayn Hunter, Shaun Dooley, Bronson Webb
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Scenario

James Watkins

Producer

Christian Colson, Richard Holmes, Conor McCaughan

Camera operator

Christopher Ross

Composer

David Julyan

Artist

Simon Bowles, Melloney Cunnell

Audition

Julie Harkin

Editing

Jon Harris
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Short description

When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.

What's left behind the scenes

The film explores the theme of the so-called moral panic surrounding “Broken Britain.” This term was used by the Conservative Party from 2007 to 2010 to describe the alleged widespread state of social decay in the country during the tenure of Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown. (The sociological term “moral panic” describes the spread of mass hysteria in society regarding something supposedly threatening the safety of society and/or its moral values.)
When Jenny, played by Kelly Reilly, looks in the mirror before killing Cooper (played by Thomas Turgoose), the words “The most dangerous animal of all living in the forest” can be seen in the reflection.
Towards the end of the film, one of the gang members erases the video recordings of the crimes and acts of violence committed by the gang. The files are too small (the size of one of them, for example, is 29 KB) to be video files.