Eden Lake

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Movie
German title Eden Lake
Original title Eden Lake
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length shortened: 85 minutes unabridged: 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 18 (abbreviated)
SPIO / JK : ksJ (unabridged, indexed)
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Director James Watkins
script James Watkins
production Christian Colson ,
Richard Holmes
music David Julyan
camera Christopher Ross
cut Jon Harris
occupation

Eden Lake is a British horror - thriller from the year 2008 . It is the first film by James Watkins , who also wrote the script. The world premiere took place on May 15, 2008 at the Cannes International Film Festival 2008 (out of competition). The German premiere was on August 12, 2008 at the opening of the Fantasy Film Festival in Berlin .

action

Kindergarten teacher Jenny and her boyfriend Steve are an average middle class couple from London . You go camping at Eden Lake in the province. Before a closed gated community is created there as part of a construction project , the two of them want to relax again at the lake, which is surrounded by a dense forest. Steve also wants to get engaged to Jenny there.

When they arrive at the lake, they both meet a gang of young people from the nearby town. There is a quarrel with them because of a Rottweiler who is not on a leash and various rabble-rousings, in the course of which Steve withdraws. However, Steve later discovered that a tire was stabbed on his car. The following day Steve goes diving and Jenny sleeps on the shore of the lake. Then they notice that their beach bag with the car keys and cell phone has been stolen. On the walk into town, they are almost run over by the youngsters in the stolen car. In the evening they can confront the gang and demand the surrender of the car and the other stolen items, including high-quality sunglasses from Steve, which Brett, the leader of the gang, displays like a trophy.

After an argument with Brett, there is a tussle with the group, in which Steve fatally injures the Rottweiler with a knife from the youth. Angrily, Brett throws the keys to Steve and Jenny, who drive away with the vehicle. However, Brett is so upset by the death of his dog that he calls on his friends to pursue them and seek revenge for the crime. In the thicket of the forest, the refugees collide with a fallen tree. Steve is seriously injured and since he cannot get out of the car, he sends Jenny to get help. However, Jenny hides in the forest and waits for sunrise to go in search of Steve.

When she finds him, Steve is tied to a tree stump with barbed wire and is subjected to the abuse of the youth group. Some of the boys feel they have gone too far, causing Brett to force everyone to cut Steve with a knife. He films the action with a cell phone camera to prove it and so peer pressure exercise. Jenny, who watches the scene in shock, is unmasked and hunted while trying to alert the police with her PDA via Bluetooth and Steve's cell phone. Now that the youngsters let go of Steve, he manages to free himself. A short time later he meets Jenny in the forest. They flee together to a wooden hut by the lake.

Since Jenny cannot treat the dying Steve adequately, she goes to seek help. However, she does not manage to reach the next town. While fleeing, she injured her foot and met a boy who was teased and kicked by the youth group the day before. He promises to take her to town. However, it turns out that he betrays her to the youth group. The angry youths tie them up together with the now dead Steve to burn both of them. Jenny manages to escape, but she has to watch as the traitor is doused with gasoline and set on fire. This scene is also filmed with the mobile phone camera.

When Jenny has just taken a map of the area from an orientation board, she kills Cooper, the youngest and most shy member of the gang, in an affect. This incident intensifies Brett's anger so much that he kills one of his companions when he tries to call the police. On her escape, Jenny runs in front of a car whose driver takes her away. When it turns out that this is the brother of one of the boys, Jenny hijacks the car when he gets out of the car, runs away and runs over Paige, who is suddenly on the street. Then Jenny comes off the road at a junction when she tries to avoid a car that she has taken the right of way. In the garden of the house in front of which the accident happened, a garden party is being held, to which Jenny drags herself before she collapses. The guests take care of the heavily scarred woman, but then it turns out that they are the parents of the teenagers. Cooper's father announces that he will kill Jenny. Brett deletes the videos on his phone to destroy evidence of the mistreatment in the forest. In the final scene, Brett poses in front of a mirror; he is wearing Steve's sunglasses.

production

The filming took place from July 25th to September 10th 2007 in the English county of Buckinghamshire . Black Park and Burnham Beeches near Iver Heath served as the backdrop for Eden Lake. The scenes that take place in the village were made in Farnham Common. All other recordings were shot in Pinewood Studios . With the film, James Watkins wanted to shed light on the real problem of conflicting behavior with young people, who on the one hand need to be protected and on the other hand can show an unpredictable aggressiveness.

Reviews

According to Kurt Meinicke from moviemaze.de, “Eden Lake is an atmospherically dense and uncompromising terror film about the abysses of today's youth. In times of cell phone porn and happy slapping , the film takes on a tragic explosiveness, which is also mainly responsible for the functioning of the story. "For Laura Samide from Cinefacts , the protagonist is the most important element:" The entire film rests on the delicate shoulders of the actress and she masters her role with flying colors. [...] Kelly Reilly is able to breathe so much life and energy into the role that the film is worth seeing just because of her. "Carsten Baumgardt criticizes filmstarts.de for the fact that the" mixture of cracking, nasty, blood-drenched genre film and social drama "doesn't work , "Because this conflict only serves as a decoration and pretext to stylize the kids as evil and to let their violence off the leash." The lexicon of international films sees it similarly: "In terms of staging, a quite effective mixture of psychological thriller and social drama, which, however, never manages to convincingly explain the motives of the young violent criminals."

The film has a positive ranking (tomatometer) of 80% on Rotten Tomatoes .

indexing

In July 2009 the film ( uncut version with the light SPIO / JK approval, no serious risk to young people ) was indexed on list A by the BPjM . This means that, from the authority's point of view, the film does not violate Section 131 StGB ( glorification of violence ), but is classified as harmful to young people and therefore may no longer be publicly exhibited and / or advertised.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release to Eden Lake . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2009 (PDF; test number: 116 978 DVD).
  2. ↑ Notes de Prod.: Eden Lake Effets visuels. Comme au cinema, accessed on August 21, 2010 (French).
  3. ^ Filming locations for Eden Lake. IMDB, accessed August 21, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Notes de Prod.: Eden Lake L'Origine d'Eden Lake. Comme au cinema, accessed on August 21, 2010 (French).
  5. ↑ Kurt Meinicke: Eden Lake ( Memento from September 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ Laura Samide: Eden Lake. Cinefacts, accessed August 21, 2010 .
  7. ^ Carsten Baumgardt: Eden Lake. Film releases, accessed August 21, 2010 .
  8. ↑ Eden Lake. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed August 21, 2010 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  9. ↑ Eden Lake at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed October 28, 2017.
  10. ↑ Schnittberichte.com: Indexings / Seizures July 2009 , accessed on August 3, 2009
  11. ^ IMDb: Awards for Eden Lake , accessed November 26, 2008