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Eden Lake (2008)
★ 6.8 · 2,069 ratings on TMDB
A weekend by the lake, with views to die for.
When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.
DirectorJames Watkins
The emergence reading
Eden Lake keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceGB
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