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Eden Lake (2008)
Cannot fathom the love that this film receives.
This film had the potential to be really good, however I for one did not personally enjoy it. The start is promising enough, the modern city, warm colours and happy young couple leading us to initially believe that we will not be watching a horror film. Despite this, the storyline quickly becomes overblown. The gang of "chavs" are realistic enough - living in England myself, I have seen and experienced many groups of young people like this, and it isn't unheard of to hear of them carrying out some awful murder as part of their "fun". I only feel like this film took the reality a step too far. The violence shown was, in all honesty, unacceptable. As I was watching it, I wondered what sort of person would decide that they wanted to show this kind of torture on film, in such detail... The lead characters were, as are most horror-film-protagonists, rather pathetic. This was another film that, between cringing at the violence, had me shouting angrily at the screen because I couldn't believe how ridiculous they were. Some people may adore this film, but I simply cannot bring myself to enjoy it.
Behind Your Eyes (2011)
If you have thought about staying in to watch this film... go out.
I can only describe this as brilliant, spelt as C R A P... The most entertaining part of it was the father's poetic lines in between it all. This film can only be matched to films such as Eden Lake and Wolf Creek, which in my opinion are brilliant exams of terrible films. The script was predictable throughout, the eventual outcome was foreseeable; it is a film that makes you want to scream at the television because of how ridiculous it is, but yet you don't turn it off because it's somewhat of a fatal fascination. For acting ability, there will certainly be no Oscars. I strongly suspect that a better film could be put together by amateurs. I wouldn't recommend this film at all.