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Topics: Horror, Film and TV
Michael Slavin
One of my favourite questions to ask film fans is never ‘what’s your favourite movie?'.
With that you get boring uhming and aahing and, in my opinion, the far more interesting question is 'which film will you never watch again?'.
Whether it be that it was so terrible, so offensive, so emotional, or so scary, you’ll always get a more interesting answer in my opinion.
In the case of one particular horror film however, even the most hardcore of fans have sworn it off, vowing to never watch it again.
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It's so creepy that one fan went as far as to say they were ‘chilled to the core’ by it.
We are not ones to ever shy away from a creepy horror, but can confirm - this is one that will stay with you.
Here’s the trailer, and make sure to have a couch to hide behind before you stick it on:
The film is Eden Lake, a 2008 British horror film starring Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, and even Jack O’Connell.
It follows a couple on a remote romantic getaway. That’s never gone wrong before!
Shockingly, it does.
Their getaway is crashed by bashful teens, who proceed to terrorise them, before the weekend turns into a far more dangerous and deadly affair.
With a rating of 6.7 on IMDb and 81 percent on Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer, it is fairly well reviewed as far as horrors go, with Empire calling it one of the ‘most shocking and provocative’ thrillers of the year.
We should warn anyone who goes to watch this however, we are not exaggerating, and it is indeed an absolutely harrowing watch, and far more of a horror than a thriller (this is coming from someone who watched it from between their fingers).
The film returned to the minds of horror fans due to a recent post in the subreddit r/horror, where someone asked about which films had left people ‘disturbed’ and with ‘a bad feeling, like it was more than just a movie’.
The top comment on the thread read: “Eden Lake. At the time I watched it, I was living in a really rough area in the North of England (literally the basis of Shameless).
“Teen violence was commonplace and the retaliations were often as bad. (For example: A guy in my neighbourhood was jumped by a group and went after them with a hatchet).
“I watched that movie and at every step I could picture any one of the local kids doing what these kids were doing, and it absolutely chilled me to my core.
“I've long since moved away but I have never, ever rewatched that movie.”
Another Reddit thread discussing the film said: “I just watched Eden Lake and had to break it off before bed and finish watching in the morning because it was intense and making me so anxious.
" I think it was well done overall and there's some layers to the movie I didn't expect from it”.
Watch it if you dare, but from all accounts, don’t expect to want to rewatch it once a year.
Eden Lake is available to stream on Prime Video.