Eden Lake 2008 ★★★★

Rewatched Jul 22, 2012

Tense chav horror that skates round its really quite potentially offensive subject matter by showing some top notch horror chops.

Kelly Reilly (who instantly gets the film an extra star; rrrarrr!!) does the switch from timid to avenging angel really well, but Michael Fassbender is a bit underused, although definitely abused, the poor man.

The lead scrote is a malevolent force of nature, one of the nastiest screen creations you will ever see, and thankfully the near-unbelievability of his extremity is tempered by the dawning realisation of his cohorts that they've gotten themselves in way too deep.

I know some people hate this because of its almost phobic depiction of the working class, but taken on its merits as a genre flick, it's pretty damn good.

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