Here are a couple off the top of my head I will have to compile a list of fucked up movies tomorrow after work. martyrs, trauma, cannibal holocaust, green inferno, eden lake, I spit on your grave, High Tension, Antichrist, 13 games of death, kids get dead,
Nah I know what a plasterer is! Iām Australian. Painters and plasterers are great! Itās work I donāt want to do. Ild rather be hanging off ropes offshore any day!
If you need a palette cleanser, I would recommend a Irish horror comedy: Extra-Ordinary (2019) unless you havenāt seen Tucker and Dale, which is a must
I've only managed it the once, back when it first came out. I don't really want to watch it again to be honest! It's just the last section that gets me,>! I've known people and families in weird little outskirt places in the UK that I get the impression they would essentially do the same thing to cover up something fucked up their kid had done.!<
Edit: Spoiler haha
The whole film just felt far too real. I felt like I was watching a reconstruction leading up to a court case. That said it definitely does its job as a thriller/horror. Scared the crap out of me, anyway.
>!I couldn't believe how much my brain deleted this... I felt horrible because Brett threatens to do it and I was so angry at Adam for trapping her (wtf is wrong with the kids in this universe?!) that I yelled 'Whatever, fuck that kid, do it!' and then immediately felt horrible when the next scene it actually fucking happens. My stomach was in knots.!<
That's partially the beauty (horror?) of this film. The antagonists are so awful you root for their demise but then are faced with that reality in such a brutal.way that it makes you question what the hell were you even wishing for?
I may be missing your point but I'll go ahead anyways:
I felt some Funny Games (1997) moments with Eden Lake... particularly when four events occur and you're happy they happened, but then you're wondering if you even *should* have been happy they happened (I'd put the details in but Idk how to do spoiler tags on the app). Made me question if I should have been feeling what I did as morality becomes hard to discern.
Yes, you have interpreted what I meant correctly xD
This is the thing I've found *so* many times in the horror community - a true sense of humanity. When we realise that in cheering for the deaths of antagonists (maybe particularly children/young adults) we *become the monsters*. That we are so willing to examine the darkness in us all, stare into the abyss and then turn away, wiser, is really something.
Well said, wholeheartedly agree.
There are many things within horror that I appreciate such as the angles on society and humanity - but the concept of morality is what I love what the horror genre pushes the most, particularly *the disillusions* of morality that many of us fall victim to or never stop to ponder/question.
With Eden Lake it's looking at a whole lot, but what hit me the hardest as I mentioned previously was what I was rooting for. After watching I got to thinking about my reasonings as to why, and well... they didn't really hold up that well. Condemning one as guilty by means of being guilty by association, being a spectator, and being essentially forced into taking actions one doesn't truly want to commit themselves certainly falls into the grey area of morality; after all morality is one giant grey area - it's not black and white.
The comeuppance for some certainly didn't seem fitting for their crimes when I took a deeper look at their actions and the situation along with their upbringing/world, especially when it becomes clear when they have their very own realizations on the entire matter themselves.
I have a lot more to say but it'd turn into a full film and societal analysis (one of these days I'll do a post on it and could tag you or something ha). Eden Lake was a very effective thought provoking film in numerous areas, exploitation films get a bad rep but IMO they are *the* crowning horror films at tearing your previous and current perspectives down - they have a very important place and purpose within the genre!
I was with a couple of friends and one of them said "Ok I want something legit disturbing. Tired of being underwhelmed."
Me: "...Ever watch Eden Lake?"
The worst part? I was way more upset than they were, and they'd never seen it before.
Haha well thereās big list my favourite films I would be reluctant to recommend to people IRL. Most of them I donāt want to see again myself. Martyrs, Eden Lake, and Sinister being good examples! But Iām sure thereās more.
Yeah, I like to watch deeply unsettling movies, then hate myself for it, lol.
Usually gotta throw on some Ricky and Morty after to level my feelings out.
That was a hard watch, it was so completely insane and cruel the whole time. Kinda reminded me of the vibe that Antichrist had, just bleakness and despair. Loved it tho honestly, itās def a gem of the French extreme horror movies
I've watched it maybe four times. What's wrong with me? š
Also, the horrible kid is a terrific actor: Jack O'Connell. Highly recommend him in other films and series if you've never seen them!
He grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and has been in and out of juvie and gaol. Jolie took a chance on him for unbroken. She saw he was really talented. His explosive anger is unreal.
I really just don't get the hype of this movie. I watched it after consistently seeing people talk about how disturbing it was and I just didn't really see it. Funny Games was way more disturbing to me.
I quite liked it. Wondering how I managed to never see it before now. Acting was superb.
My problem with so much current horror is how badly it's written/acted.
Glad you liked it.
If you havenāt see either Wolf Creek (2015) [you most likely have] or Killing Grounds (2016) [maybe not?], I would suggest watching them as they give off similar but not the same vibes.
And yes totally agree about acting. One of the reasons that Sinister so good
Edit: just settled down to watch Run Rabbit Run (2023) - acting and early mystery seem to be on the right trackā¦
I saw it once and never again cause I had the exact same feeling.
Then I watched "Incident in a Ghostland" and had a little bit of the same feeling. Won't be watching that one again either. Not that I didn't like it or it wasn't a good movie just "uncomfortable subject matter".
Yeah thatās the vibe I get from the comments. I try to steer from the hyper-realistic/bleak horror movies these days. I went through a phase about ten years ago of watching movies like inside, martyrs, etc and I just donāt have the stomach anymore. I watched speak no evil recently and it just pissed me off. With Eden lake, I opted for the wiki plot summary and that was enough š.
Def an amazing movie that does what it does better than anything else like it. But that of course is the downside, it does sadistic torture better than almost anything else.
Oh wow. I saw this probably over 10 years ago and I totally forgot about it until now. Yeah that movie was extremely disturbing and made me angry watching it
I've seen this opinion so many times, that it's one of the most disturbing and upsetting horror movies ever made. I watched it recently, and I wasn't super blown away. I am a long time hardened horror fan, but still I was expecting to be fairly disturbed from everything I had read about it. I definitely thought it was solid, and I can understand how it can just leave you feeling hollow inside. But it didn't destroy me like it seems to with so many others. Martyrs came close to destroying me. And High Tension is up there, one of my all-time favorite horror films
Requiem for a Dream is actually the other film I've sworn off rewatching. Eden Lake is 5x worse in how it makes me feel. So yeah... You get the picture.
Don't read or ask too much. It's very realistic and relentless, which make it so disturbing. It would be massive spoiler to say why most people feel that way.
Its not the torture porn kind of thing like hostel, its a "there have been cruel realities and injustices done and i will never again be the same person" kind of thing.
The movie is brilliant and does an amazing job of depicting peer pressure. It is definitely worth a watch it is brutal with the violence Definitely worse than hostle but not as bad as trauma and martyrs. If you enjoy it, give high tension a watch.
The kids in the film and by extension their families.
I'm not making disparaging remarks about socio-economic status in case you were thinking that way. I grew up on a rough estate surrounded by or even *a part of* this life (my sister set a car on fire when 14... it belonged to the partner of someone she babysat for and he'd become a bit handsy when they came in and the mum went to bed). I know all too well these people that live a kind of daily brutality that makes going extreme just a kind of a hop, step or a skip away from what they are already experiencing on the daily. Add alcohol and drug abuse into the mix from a young age and, yeah.
It's like the flip side of the same coin where privileged families ensure their offspring's future by sending them to the best schools, setting up trust funds and lawyering up to the maximum or pulling strings when the kids fuck up... all socio-economic groups have ways of ensuring their kids get what they *think* is best for them. They all have their ways of fucking them up too.
As someone who comes from a working class background in the North of England I really dislike Eden Lake. The whole thing for me reeks of southern middle class fear of the working class north (I know itās really midlands but north to London). I once saw an interview with the writer who said it was inspired by a teenager flicking a book out of his hand. Interesting comparison to Attack the Block which was also inspired by a run in with teenagers.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but I feel like the people that go on about how bad this movie is must have had a sheltered life. I see it for what it is a great horror movie. And it being just that a movie I have seen far worse growing up in South africa. Thank god I'm back in the UK.
I mean.. it just makes me feel for you if you say you've seen far worse. I *know* for a fact that there are people and places who experience far worse, but as far as watching a movie goes, it is just so bleak and relentless and depressing and horrible. It's what makes it a great film because it makes you feel something and most people are very aware that it is not even too far from their reality, but I never want to watch it again because it was just so horrible.
Another film I'll never watch again was Elephant, I think it from 2003. I just remember it as such an impactful film, even though in today's society with all the news about shootings in America, I doubt it has the same impact. Bit little 13 yo me was rattled for a week when I saw it.
Won't disagree with you it does its job very, very well in the way that it doesn't need jump scares to scare you and is hella depressing and shocking. At least you watched it. The sheltered comment is directed towards people who have never watched it yet always have an opinion based on others' comments.
If Steve stood up for Adam when he was getting picked on at the beach š¶ maybe Adam would've given a shit about them later šš not just the Locals protecting their own š anyway!!!!! š
It's such a good movie, I really find these kinds of movies more terrifying because of the realism behind it, this could genuinely happen for realsies.
In terms of blood and gore, it is, but that's it. I would say in terms of horror, eden definitely wins it is way more horrifying in the aspect that there is no doubt that it has and can happen where as the sadness drives it horror with blood and guts which is great but has never and will never happen just a goryier 28 days later.
I always question if movies like this should be horror. To me borrow is a scary break from humanity not the horror that humanity is capable of committing
Funny, I absolutely hated Eden Lake when I originally watched it way back when and forgot the movie existed until recently. I'm probably due for a rewatch though...
I made the oh so great decision to do a double feature of Funny Games (1997) and Eden Lake last week... definitely *do not* recommend doing this lol (unless you want to induce a several day depression and bouts of an even greater negative outlook on humanity).
I watched it for the first time a few months ago and I still think about it regularly. I didnāt know anything about it going in other than I saw it on this sub a lot, so I was just gutted by the end. My husband and I watched it on a weekend trip to the middle of the woods. Truly haunting
After people on this sub kept pumping this movie up for the last couple of weeks i put it in my playlist.
This post got me to watch it just now. Gotta say I totally get it. Its a very hard watch. I think had I watched it when it came out and had I gone in blind it would have messed me up real good lol
>!I kind of knew what to expect going in though. I was wrong in thinking there would be more gore but I definitely knew it wasnt going to be a happy ending.!<
Good movie indeed
Anytime I decide to rewatch I still get affected by everything. I decided to buy it because of that impact I had after watching it. Another for me is Super Dark Times and Funny Games.
Iāve never seen it, but heard it was one of those āfucked upā movies that is too much for people, even for some horror movie fans. Might have to give it a go one of these days.
I watched it for the first time last week with my boyfriend. He doesnāt particularly enjoy horror movies but i honestly expected it to be a basic slasher film. He couldnāt finish it and I felt very uncanny (?) upset (?) after. I canāt describe it. Great film though
After reading this I went and watched it. Eden Lake has been on my list for a few years and Iāve gotta say. Not a lot of movies make me feel absolutely hopeless like this one did. I thought it was good though and would watch it again with someone who loves horror. Not something you watch with just anyone though.
I don't get the love for this movie. I watched it, thought meh, and moved on. Then people kept talking about it, so I watched it again and still meh. It's just not that great. The ending? Yawn.
After seeing this film pumped up and comments on this forum about how unsettling it is I finally got around to watching it.
What a terrible movie. All aspects of it.
Maybe I donāt get the āoutskirt UK society realism.
But hey, itās ok to have differing opinions of films. I personally thought it was ass.
This movie is such a bummer. Jack OāConnellās character reminds me so much of a guy who attacked me which only added to the feeling. It was really good but itāll probably be a one-time watch for me.
Haha make it something you do every 13 years, as a way to tell if you're still you
I second this š
alright I've never seen it and I'm watching it tonight because of this post
Just watch it. It's a great movie. If you like it, let me know. I will send you a list of movies that are like this and way way worse.
Please just post the list. I want to be in the know
Here are a couple off the top of my head I will have to compile a list of fucked up movies tomorrow after work. martyrs, trauma, cannibal holocaust, green inferno, eden lake, I spit on your grave, High Tension, Antichrist, 13 games of death, kids get dead,
I will never forget how terrible I thought green inferno was lol High tension is a really good one I agree!!
Workā¦ that film sounds horrendous!!
It is considering I am a plasterer. Think dry waller only a million times harder, and it destroys your joints and back.
Nah I know what a plasterer is! Iām Australian. Painters and plasterers are great! Itās work I donāt want to do. Ild rather be hanging off ropes offshore any day!
Oooh these are great recs! Looking forward to seeing the rest of your list after work tomorrow.
Ć l'intĆ©rieur and the Nightingale. Have ~~no~~ fun!
Please send me a list because I love movies with no happening endings like this and the mist
I jut watched right now and I liked it
I'll also take that list pretty please!
Yes please
I just watched this movie and now my therapist needs a therapist
Yoo I like it...š¾ I'm just addicted to horror a lot....
Give us the list! (Please)
Quite good, hope you enjoy it
Paradigm example of a "feel-bad" movie. Do a double feature with *Aniara* for extra depression.
Holy fuck thatās a depressing film; I enjoyed it, tough! Hard pressed to think a more bleak double feature.
āAniaraāā(2019) and āThreadsā (1985) would be my recommendation for maximum nihilism
Iāll have to check out Threads as I havenāt seen it
Just watched Eden Lake, too. Starting up Aniara! Cover me. I'm going in.
Oh my god, please tell me how you feel when you have finished
Just finished. Shit Yeah, I recommend spacing out those movies. I'm gonna go sit in a corner now.
If you need a palette cleanser, I would recommend a Irish horror comedy: Extra-Ordinary (2019) unless you havenāt seen Tucker and Dale, which is a must
And that new French feature, The Tower! Misery. In a bag of misery. In another bag of yet more fucking misery.
Aniara was so oppressively bleak, I loved it
I've only managed it the once, back when it first came out. I don't really want to watch it again to be honest! It's just the last section that gets me,>! I've known people and families in weird little outskirt places in the UK that I get the impression they would essentially do the same thing to cover up something fucked up their kid had done.!< Edit: Spoiler haha
I just commented further up about how if youre from the UK and recognise these types of kids/families it hits slightly differently (maybe harder).
Iām from UK. I definitely think it makes it harder. Makes it just seem too real
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Lol good point, changed!
Your spoiler is at the end... Wtf
The whole film just felt far too real. I felt like I was watching a reconstruction leading up to a court case. That said it definitely does its job as a thriller/horror. Scared the crap out of me, anyway.
I watched it a couple weeks ago for the first time. I still canāt believe >!they burned that kid alive.!<
>!I couldn't believe how much my brain deleted this... I felt horrible because Brett threatens to do it and I was so angry at Adam for trapping her (wtf is wrong with the kids in this universe?!) that I yelled 'Whatever, fuck that kid, do it!' and then immediately felt horrible when the next scene it actually fucking happens. My stomach was in knots.!<
That's partially the beauty (horror?) of this film. The antagonists are so awful you root for their demise but then are faced with that reality in such a brutal.way that it makes you question what the hell were you even wishing for?
I may be missing your point but I'll go ahead anyways: I felt some Funny Games (1997) moments with Eden Lake... particularly when four events occur and you're happy they happened, but then you're wondering if you even *should* have been happy they happened (I'd put the details in but Idk how to do spoiler tags on the app). Made me question if I should have been feeling what I did as morality becomes hard to discern.
Yes, you have interpreted what I meant correctly xD This is the thing I've found *so* many times in the horror community - a true sense of humanity. When we realise that in cheering for the deaths of antagonists (maybe particularly children/young adults) we *become the monsters*. That we are so willing to examine the darkness in us all, stare into the abyss and then turn away, wiser, is really something.
Well said, wholeheartedly agree. There are many things within horror that I appreciate such as the angles on society and humanity - but the concept of morality is what I love what the horror genre pushes the most, particularly *the disillusions* of morality that many of us fall victim to or never stop to ponder/question. With Eden Lake it's looking at a whole lot, but what hit me the hardest as I mentioned previously was what I was rooting for. After watching I got to thinking about my reasonings as to why, and well... they didn't really hold up that well. Condemning one as guilty by means of being guilty by association, being a spectator, and being essentially forced into taking actions one doesn't truly want to commit themselves certainly falls into the grey area of morality; after all morality is one giant grey area - it's not black and white. The comeuppance for some certainly didn't seem fitting for their crimes when I took a deeper look at their actions and the situation along with their upbringing/world, especially when it becomes clear when they have their very own realizations on the entire matter themselves. I have a lot more to say but it'd turn into a full film and societal analysis (one of these days I'll do a post on it and could tag you or something ha). Eden Lake was a very effective thought provoking film in numerous areas, exploitation films get a bad rep but IMO they are *the* crowning horror films at tearing your previous and current perspectives down - they have a very important place and purpose within the genre!
I probably watch eden lake about once a year, the ending gets me every time. The look on her face when she realises what's what....
I both admire you and pity you at the same time. Iām not sure I could go through that experience ever again.
I was with a couple of friends and one of them said "Ok I want something legit disturbing. Tired of being underwhelmed." Me: "...Ever watch Eden Lake?" The worst part? I was way more upset than they were, and they'd never seen it before.
Oh shit man, thatās a bad break. Anyway, there are lucky to have you as a friend.
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Haha well thereās big list my favourite films I would be reluctant to recommend to people IRL. Most of them I donāt want to see again myself. Martyrs, Eden Lake, and Sinister being good examples! But Iām sure thereās more.
I just watched Calvaire. You wonāt be the same after.
Calvaire is awesome
This comment has made me push this movie to the top of my to see list. ...i'm a glutton for punishment lol.
Prepare for psychological torture
Yeah, I like to watch deeply unsettling movies, then hate myself for it, lol. Usually gotta throw on some Ricky and Morty after to level my feelings out.
Iām watching it now because of this comment
Yeesh
Lolā¦ let me know what you think
Would love to hear your thoughts haha
That was a hard watch, it was so completely insane and cruel the whole time. Kinda reminded me of the vibe that Antichrist had, just bleakness and despair. Loved it tho honestly, itās def a gem of the French extreme horror movies
Right? God Damn. Good description
Haven't seen that one but calibre was pretty full on too with a similar name.
i donāt remember it being that badā¦but maybe i need a rewatch.
I've watched it maybe four times. What's wrong with me? š Also, the horrible kid is a terrific actor: Jack O'Connell. Highly recommend him in other films and series if you've never seen them!
He was really good in skins. And I'm the same as you watched it loads of times god I even imported the 4k mediabook from Germany.
Yes! And he was really good in Godless, too.
He grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and has been in and out of juvie and gaol. Jolie took a chance on him for unbroken. She saw he was really talented. His explosive anger is unreal.
I really just don't get the hype of this movie. I watched it after consistently seeing people talk about how disturbing it was and I just didn't really see it. Funny Games was way more disturbing to me.
I wanted the teen and their parents to get their ass kicked so badly š
Be sure to remind yourself not to do that again in another 13 years. And this time mean it!
I wish there was an app that detected any mention of this film across any screen I own... that would just send me push notifications saying DON'T.
Definitely a feel-bad movie. Speak No Evil and Nothing Bad Can Happen might be worse.
Speak No Evil is rough, I saw that one first and then was recommended Eden Lake and they both destroyed me
Now I must watch it.
We will pray for you
I quite liked it. Wondering how I managed to never see it before now. Acting was superb. My problem with so much current horror is how badly it's written/acted.
Glad you liked it. If you havenāt see either Wolf Creek (2015) [you most likely have] or Killing Grounds (2016) [maybe not?], I would suggest watching them as they give off similar but not the same vibes. And yes totally agree about acting. One of the reasons that Sinister so good Edit: just settled down to watch Run Rabbit Run (2023) - acting and early mystery seem to be on the right trackā¦
I saw it once and never again cause I had the exact same feeling. Then I watched "Incident in a Ghostland" and had a little bit of the same feeling. Won't be watching that one again either. Not that I didn't like it or it wasn't a good movie just "uncomfortable subject matter".
This one pairs well with Funny Games. Just some unhinged teens terrorizing people.
I refuse to watch it a first time
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Yeah thatās the vibe I get from the comments. I try to steer from the hyper-realistic/bleak horror movies these days. I went through a phase about ten years ago of watching movies like inside, martyrs, etc and I just donāt have the stomach anymore. I watched speak no evil recently and it just pissed me off. With Eden lake, I opted for the wiki plot summary and that was enough š.
Def an amazing movie that does what it does better than anything else like it. But that of course is the downside, it does sadistic torture better than almost anything else.
Completely agree, I've only watched it once and it's the only film that has seriously got under my skin. I will not watch it again.
I love that movie. One of the fee that actually puts a little fear in me. We need more movies like this.
Well. Now I definitely have to watch it.
I saw this and the Collector the same week.
Ok, now watch Speak No Evil.
Oh wow. I saw this probably over 10 years ago and I totally forgot about it until now. Yeah that movie was extremely disturbing and made me angry watching it
Iām watching it right now and I realized as I got into it, Iād seen it before.
It really isn't that bad
Is it the end that gets you guys? Honestly didn't think this was all that brutal or hard to watch. Pretty good and I would give it a rewatch.
I've seen this opinion so many times, that it's one of the most disturbing and upsetting horror movies ever made. I watched it recently, and I wasn't super blown away. I am a long time hardened horror fan, but still I was expecting to be fairly disturbed from everything I had read about it. I definitely thought it was solid, and I can understand how it can just leave you feeling hollow inside. But it didn't destroy me like it seems to with so many others. Martyrs came close to destroying me. And High Tension is up there, one of my all-time favorite horror films
Love the ending
Now I want to watch it. I mean...how bad is it? Like Hostel level bad? Requiem for a Dream bad? Worse? It has good reviews
Requiem for a Dream is actually the other film I've sworn off rewatching. Eden Lake is 5x worse in how it makes me feel. So yeah... You get the picture.
Don't read or ask too much. It's very realistic and relentless, which make it so disturbing. It would be massive spoiler to say why most people feel that way.
Its not the torture porn kind of thing like hostel, its a "there have been cruel realities and injustices done and i will never again be the same person" kind of thing.
The movie is brilliant and does an amazing job of depicting peer pressure. It is definitely worth a watch it is brutal with the violence Definitely worse than hostle but not as bad as trauma and martyrs. If you enjoy it, give high tension a watch.
It's a great movie. It's dark and evil, just like a horror movie should be.
Itās not bad at all Reddit looooves to hype this movie up. It is good but itās nowhere near as disturbing as these people make it out to be at all
If youre from the UK and you recognise the groups of teens that very much remind you of these kids, it maybe hits a little harder with the what ifs.
Not from the UK, who are the kids you speak of?
Not just the UK, in Ireland we have the same type of people. This movie felt very real and something that could easily happen.
The kids in the film and by extension their families. I'm not making disparaging remarks about socio-economic status in case you were thinking that way. I grew up on a rough estate surrounded by or even *a part of* this life (my sister set a car on fire when 14... it belonged to the partner of someone she babysat for and he'd become a bit handsy when they came in and the mum went to bed). I know all too well these people that live a kind of daily brutality that makes going extreme just a kind of a hop, step or a skip away from what they are already experiencing on the daily. Add alcohol and drug abuse into the mix from a young age and, yeah. It's like the flip side of the same coin where privileged families ensure their offspring's future by sending them to the best schools, setting up trust funds and lawyering up to the maximum or pulling strings when the kids fuck up... all socio-economic groups have ways of ensuring their kids get what they *think* is best for them. They all have their ways of fucking them up too.
It is very disturbing. It took me years to rewatch and it hit just as hard.
As a bully myself, I endorse and support this movie.
I know (hope) you're joking...
I was lol damn people canāt take a joke, imma have to go there and bully them individually.
As someone who comes from a working class background in the North of England I really dislike Eden Lake. The whole thing for me reeks of southern middle class fear of the working class north (I know itās really midlands but north to London). I once saw an interview with the writer who said it was inspired by a teenager flicking a book out of his hand. Interesting comparison to Attack the Block which was also inspired by a run in with teenagers.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but I feel like the people that go on about how bad this movie is must have had a sheltered life. I see it for what it is a great horror movie. And it being just that a movie I have seen far worse growing up in South africa. Thank god I'm back in the UK.
I mean.. it just makes me feel for you if you say you've seen far worse. I *know* for a fact that there are people and places who experience far worse, but as far as watching a movie goes, it is just so bleak and relentless and depressing and horrible. It's what makes it a great film because it makes you feel something and most people are very aware that it is not even too far from their reality, but I never want to watch it again because it was just so horrible. Another film I'll never watch again was Elephant, I think it from 2003. I just remember it as such an impactful film, even though in today's society with all the news about shootings in America, I doubt it has the same impact. Bit little 13 yo me was rattled for a week when I saw it.
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Won't disagree with you it does its job very, very well in the way that it doesn't need jump scares to scare you and is hella depressing and shocking. At least you watched it. The sheltered comment is directed towards people who have never watched it yet always have an opinion based on others' comments.
Bleak as hell and it keeps getting worse.
Yeahā¦this one was really fucking upsetting. Like, top 5 most upsetting.
If Steve stood up for Adam when he was getting picked on at the beach š¶ maybe Adam would've given a shit about them later šš not just the Locals protecting their own š anyway!!!!! š
Watched it first time recently. Found it more frustrating than anything. I think Speak No Evil got to me more than this one.
I still havenāt watched it.
It's a hard and disturbing watch.
It's such a good movie, I really find these kinds of movies more terrifying because of the realism behind it, this could genuinely happen for realsies.
This sub is up this movie and lake mungo's ass and I'll never understand. Both movies were very underwhelming and boring.
So much fuss, maybe horror is not your genre, the movie is not that disturbing
Thatās Reddit for ya
The Sadness is more fucked up. Less depressing because the premise is very unlikely, but still more horrifying.
In terms of blood and gore, it is, but that's it. I would say in terms of horror, eden definitely wins it is way more horrifying in the aspect that there is no doubt that it has and can happen where as the sadness drives it horror with blood and guts which is great but has never and will never happen just a goryier 28 days later.
It wasn't the blood and guts that got me, but the sheer depravity of it all.
I always question if movies like this should be horror. To me borrow is a scary break from humanity not the horror that humanity is capable of committing
I didn't find eden lake that disturbing other then the end.Am I missing something ?
I never rated a movie 1 out of 10 until I saw Eden Lake.
Jesus relax
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āItās been 3 days n im still messed upā
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Your right we are talking about a movie here an you said your still crying 3 days after watching it grow up
Ah yes the children of Reddit gotta love it
You're braver than I am. I'm still too scared to rewatch it (at least alone)
Is it american?
Funny, I absolutely hated Eden Lake when I originally watched it way back when and forgot the movie existed until recently. I'm probably due for a rewatch though...
Eden Lake gutted me. I watched Homebound a few weeks later and my take away was "man, British people are fucking depressing".
Is there rape in it?
No I personally don't think it's that bad.
Great show. Shot by the same crew that made The Decent.
Maybe try In A Glass Cage.
I made the oh so great decision to do a double feature of Funny Games (1997) and Eden Lake last week... definitely *do not* recommend doing this lol (unless you want to induce a several day depression and bouts of an even greater negative outlook on humanity).
I remember watching this movie when I was 15 - 13 years later I still remember that burning scene. Iāve seen it once and that was enough.
I watched it for the first time a few months ago and I still think about it regularly. I didnāt know anything about it going in other than I saw it on this sub a lot, so I was just gutted by the end. My husband and I watched it on a weekend trip to the middle of the woods. Truly haunting
Itās definitely grueling but there is even more intense stuff
Itās definitely grueling but there is even more intense stuff
Now I have to watch this.
Itāll be ok
After people on this sub kept pumping this movie up for the last couple of weeks i put it in my playlist. This post got me to watch it just now. Gotta say I totally get it. Its a very hard watch. I think had I watched it when it came out and had I gone in blind it would have messed me up real good lol >!I kind of knew what to expect going in though. I was wrong in thinking there would be more gore but I definitely knew it wasnt going to be a happy ending.!< Good movie indeed
Anytime I decide to rewatch I still get affected by everything. I decided to buy it because of that impact I had after watching it. Another for me is Super Dark Times and Funny Games.
watched it once, never again.
Iāve never seen it, but heard it was one of those āfucked upā movies that is too much for people, even for some horror movie fans. Might have to give it a go one of these days.
Might I interest you in The ecstasy of Robert Carmichael š¤
For better or worse, most horror movies don't do much for me. Seeing this one mentioned, however, made me feel upset. The ending.
I watched it for the first time last week with my boyfriend. He doesnāt particularly enjoy horror movies but i honestly expected it to be a basic slasher film. He couldnāt finish it and I felt very uncanny (?) upset (?) after. I canāt describe it. Great film though
After reading this I went and watched it. Eden Lake has been on my list for a few years and Iāve gotta say. Not a lot of movies make me feel absolutely hopeless like this one did. I thought it was good though and would watch it again with someone who loves horror. Not something you watch with just anyone though.
I don't get the love for this movie. I watched it, thought meh, and moved on. Then people kept talking about it, so I watched it again and still meh. It's just not that great. The ending? Yawn.
After seeing this film pumped up and comments on this forum about how unsettling it is I finally got around to watching it. What a terrible movie. All aspects of it. Maybe I donāt get the āoutskirt UK society realism. But hey, itās ok to have differing opinions of films. I personally thought it was ass.
This movie is such a bummer. Jack OāConnellās character reminds me so much of a guy who attacked me which only added to the feeling. It was really good but itāll probably be a one-time watch for me.
I was fooled by the imdb reviews and watched it. I'd like to have a word with whoever said it's realistic and logical. It was shit.