History Film / EdenLake

* AnAesop: Teens can definitely [[TeensAreMonsters be monsters]], but oftentimes it's [[FreudianExcuse the result of their upbringing]], especially one that's [[AbusiveParents hostile and physically abusive]]. Nonetheless, just because they're children does ''not'' excuse their horrible behavior.

* DaylightHorror: [[spoiler:In the morning that Jenny wakes after being knocked unconscious, she finds herself tied to her dead boyfriend as the gang pours petrol on both of them and minutes before they ignite him. After that, she witnesses Brett [[ManOnFire ignite Adam]] on her account.]]
* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:Adam, Paige, Harry, and Cooper]].

* TeensAreMonsters: '''Dear God, yes'''. The chavs execute malicious, escalating torture [[spoiler:and murder]] on Steve and Jenny,[[spoiler:and, in the moral and emotional turmoil that they create, Brett kills Adam and Harry]].
* TongueTrauma: After capturing Steve, Brett orders Cooper to cut his tongue. Cooper doesn't quite manage it, but does severely mangle Steve tongue.

* CarFu: After stealing Steve and Jenny's car, Brett attempts to run them down with it. Later, [[spoiler:Jenny steals Reece's van and drives off. On the way out of the forest, she sees Paige on the road ans runs her down. The fact she accelerated on seeing her shows it was not an accident.]]

* VomitIndiscretionShot: Harry throws after Brett forces him to cut Steve, and all of the gory detail is captured on film.

* ManOnFire: Brett and his gang tie Jenny and attempt to incinerate her. After she escapes, the put a tyre around Adam's neck and threaten to set fire to him if she doesn't come return. She doesn't and they do.

* WaterWakeUp: Jenny is captured by the gang and knocked out. She wakes up as petrol is splashed in her face, and discovers she is tied to a pyre and the gang is preparing to burn her [[spoiler:and Steve's corpse]].

** [[spoiler: Steve. He's tied up with barbed wire and then stabbed in his arms, stomach, and mouth before being left to bleed to death.]] As if that wasn't enough, [[spoiler: his corpse is set on fire right in front of his own fiancee]].
** The most disturbing death in an already disturbing movie, however, is [[spoiler: Adam, ''the youngest character in the movie''. A small tire is forced upon his head by [[WouldHurtAChild Brett]] before being doused in gasoline and set on fire, not even dying instantly.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Not an ounce of justice is brought at the end of the day, and every chip seemingly falls into place such that Jenny and Steve's perpetrators [[KarmaHoudini get away scot-free]]. Jenny falls into the hands of the gang's parents in the final segment. Brett's father promises to silence the town when the police arrive, and he murders Jenny in the shower. Brett deletes the mobile phone videos containing footage of the gang torturing and murdering.]]

** [[spoiler:Leaving a mortally wounded Steve in hiding, ]]Jenny searches for power lines of which Steve reminded her and by which she believes she can find her way into town. She finds them and follows them[[spoiler: until she impales her foot on an upturned spike, which wounds her and immobilizes her long enough for one of the town teens to find her]].
** [[{{Zigzagged|Trope}} Zig-zagged]] in the final segment. After stealing a van, Jenny drives to leave Eden Lake until the car's struck on the side by an oncoming vehicle, and she crashes into the yard of a house, with locals having a party. They assist her after she asks and agree to help her[[spoiler: before she realizes that it's the home of Brett's parents and that several of the others' mothers and fathers, including Cooper's, are in attendance, and they realize that she murdered two teens. Brett's father kills her in the shower.]]

** [[spoiler:Leaving a mortally wounded Steve in hiding, ]]Jenny searches for power lines of which Steve reminded her and by which she believes she can find her way into town. She finds them and follows them[[spoiler: until she impales her foot on an up-turned spike, which wounds her and immobilizes her long enough for one of the town teens to find her]].

* CorruptHick: The gang members, owing to the town from which they come [[spoiler:and their parents]].

After they arrive and attempt to relax, a local gang of chavs (lower-class British youths), led by a particularly unhinged boy named Brett, begin to infringe upon their time together and continuously ignore Steve's requests for peace.

* TeensAreMonsters: The chavs execute malicious, escalating torture [[spoiler:and murder]] on Steve and Jenny,[[spoiler:and, in the moral and emotional turmoil that they create, Brett kills Adam and Harry]].

''Eden Lake'' is a British horror film directed by James Watkins and starring Creator/KellyReilly and Creator/MichaelFassbender.

Things then rapidly get out of hand as the gang's mischief drags the couple into an increasingly brutal cat-and-mouse game, and they must do whatever it takes to get out of the woods alive.

* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler:An oncoming vehicle hits Jenny's stolen van on the side as she drives it to escape Eden Lake, and she crashes into the yard of a house during a party. The party members assist her within the house and reassure her. Then, as they learn via phone call of the children Jenny killed, Jenny learns that the owners of the house are Brett's parents and that Paige and Cooper's parents are among the guests. Brett's father takes her into his shower with two other men and cuts her to pieces.]]

* DontGoInTheWoods: [[PlayingWithATrope Played straight]] and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]. While driving with Jenny through the woods to Eden Lake, the GPS vocally advises Steve that he's going the wrong way and ought turn around. It's never explained why.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Jenny falls into the hands of the gang's parents in the final segment. Brett's father promises to silence the town when the police arrive, and he murders Jenny in the shower. Brett deletes the mobile phone videos containing footage of the gang torturing and murdering.]]
* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler:As Steve's corpse burns, ]]Brett jumps up and down, laughing.
* FinalGirl: [[spoiler: It's Jenny against Brett and his gang, but she loses to his father.]]

* TeensAreMonsters: The chavs execute malicious, escalating torture[[spoiler: and murder]] on Steve and Jenny,[[spoiler: and, in the moral and emotional turmoil that they create, Brett kills Adam and Harry]].