It is hardly surprising that a film with such graphic violence – most of which involves children – was met with such controversy. Before director James Watkins adapted the classic Susan Hill ghost ...
Eden Lake is a horror thriller film that follows the story of a couple who go on a romantic trip to an isolated lake so they can be alone. The film is about them becoming tangled up with a bunch of ...
Zombies, vengeful ghosts, children possessed by Satan, things-that-go-bump-in-the-woods: pretty scary, huh? Not really, because they aren't real. Serial killers, mad axemen and the inbred crazies of ...
In the mid-2000s, “Extreme” French filmmakers were producing horror flicks with nihilistic brutality that eclipsed anything else produced in Europe and America. But in 2008, James Watkins’ Eden Lake ...
We’ve all seen the Speak No Evil trailer memes by now. The gag, if you happen to be unfamiliar, pokes fun at just how often the first theatrical trailer for James Watkins’ American remake of Christian ...
Don’t be fooled. With a plotline that could have been inspired by any number of Daily Mail headlines, and circling comments about the graphic violence awaiting viewers in Eden Lake, it’s the kind of ...
Eden Lake is a parable of sorts, a lesson about not going into the woods today, especially in a British countryside now ruled by feral hoodies with dogs and super-skunk. A happy London couple - ...
IF YOU go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise, according to The Teddy Bears' Picnic. In horror-thrillers that surprise is invariably a terrifying fate, as experienced most recently ...
A battle to the death between a middle class couple and a bunch of sadistic chavs set in a forest promises a great deal. It's a shame then, that the attempts to generate prolonged primal fear and ...
British director James Watkins' film 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. By Ray Bennett, The Associated ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results