I was a child of a different, more friendly horror-watching generation. I was accustomed to slasher films winking at the audience in between brutalising their cast. The Scream trilogy, I Know What You Did Last Summer , The Faculty — pretty much everything the genre threw up over the 90ss era — specialised not so much in scares as smugness and smart-arsery.
Wes Craven may have revived the slasher film with Scream, but he also demanded that self-reflexive in-jokes took precedence over proper, pant-wetting terror. Eden Lake, on the other hand, is very much in the business of pant-wetting terror. The discomfort begins early on, wastes no time in spiralling hellishly out of control, and, with its conclusion, treats the viewer with steadfast sadism.
It was, I realised, a far more effective formula than the wise-cracking fluff I was used to. Families can talk about the violence in Eden Lake. Did the blood and gore seem over the top? Did the violent scenes help tell the story in an effective way? Was it shocking or thrilling? Does exposure to violent media desensitize kids to violence? Was the movie scary? How did it compare to other horror movies that you've seen? What's the appeal of scary movies? Discuss the strong language used in the movie.
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Corona Column 3 Use these free activities to help kids explore our planet, learn about global challenges, think of solutions, and take action. Eden Lake. Psychological horror has gory violence, language, nudity. R 91 minutes. Taking place in Alaska, the sun does not rise for 30 days in the Winter. The perfect place for a group of vampires to hang out and live. There isn't much to the story. It's a simple narrative where some vampires decide to take advantage of Barrow's long Winter and set upon the small township to hunt when and how they choose.
With no pesky sunlight to think about, it's a bloodbath all Winter long. Or why does the population only have three guns in total? The pace is a little sloppy at times, given the need for interpersonal backstories. It's got snow, vampires, and a small town in a remote location. How can it be bad? The director of this film has so many fantastic films and series under his belt, it would be ridiculous if it were a flop.
The original concept for 30 Days of Night is based on a bunch of comic books. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre sets a marked bar for closed-off and remote setting horror movies.
However, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is not a true story. But, is it inspired by the real-life serial killer Ed Gein who dug up corpses. Ed Gein made all sorts of macabre things out of bones and skin and additionally killed two people. Texas Chainsaw Massacre takes place after a group journey to Sally's family homestead to visit her grandfather's grave. They want to investigate rumors about grave robbing in the area.
I think I have seen this movie a dozen times if not more. It's the oldest naturist sun-club in the UK, and vintage Speilplatz - a mini-village of chalets hidden from view in Hertfordshire's leafy lanes - remains open to those who wish to disrobe for the day you'll have to become a member. Eden Lake is a grisly horror film with a heavily ironic title: what appears to be a forest idyll perfect for a romantic mini-break is actually a lawless deathtrap overrun by homicidal chavs, plus dogs and even more vicious parents.
The location was Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire - a popular choice for film-makers on account of its ancient foliage and proximity to Pinewood studios. Bits and bobs remain: the gas works, that railway signal over Copenhagen Street where Alec Guinness meets his maker. The launderette where the boys hang out, as well as the Golden Tulip cafe where they nurse their crushes on a French waitress, are both real, and both located on the fringes of Phoenix Court, a low-rise council estate on Purchese Street.
It's hard to stand out on Dungeness peninsula, in a landscape where all is strange, windswept, and in which the nuclear power station looms in the background. But somehow the tiny cottage and garden of the film-maker Derek Jarman , whose films included Caravaggio, The Last of England and The Garden, and who died in , does just that.
It is still looked after and preserved in the same form: the same yellow woodwork against the dark timbers of the house, the driftwood and seaweed that seem to unite the garden with the nearby sea.
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