I watched Eden Lake on 2009–06–18.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020530/

I was expecting an intense movie and indeed it was. Labelled as of the horror genre, it could be more precisely classified as a torture sick flic, with a twist. The twist is that the torturers are british children and the victims are a young couple, with a life project, that is going to end at “Eden Lake”, a beautiful location, where you would never expect bad things to happen.

So is this introduction a spoiler? It is not. The movie is promoted giving away this much, so most viewers know what to expect. However, because “horror” is also about suspense and surprise, I was disappointed that the movie came short on both, particularly regarding the ending chapter.

I usually appreciate “sad endings”, because in horror movies, once things start turning less bad for the leading “good” characters, the trend tends to hold, up to a previewable end.

The same goes for Eden Lake, but this time I would have appreciated a “happy ending”!, because of its surprise effect: the unfortunate young couple gets into trouble very early on… and that is it. It is a very “heavy” movie, that doesn’t uplift a person in any possible way. Quite an experience.