A month has passed since the rather tiring Frightfest weekend sponsored by
Film4 so there has been time to allow the immediate to be replaced by a more
considered opinion - though not any great change of heart.
'Eden Lake' was the opening film. A British effort set somewhere in a rural
part of the commuter belt around London (at least one reviewer places it in the Midlands but I think wrongly so) which tells how a couple are terrorised
by a gang of local youths whose path they cross in a bucolic setting which is
presumably meant to point up the difference between superficial appearance
and 'reality'. Better done than many recent British horror films, it has some
resonance with films such as 'A Clockwork Orange' and 'Them' (not the giant
ants one) while tending to reinforce the feelings of the well-to-do about the
'lower' classes being a bunch of ill-behaved criminals which is far from the
truth for the most part.
'I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer' is an Australian comedy
horror which should have stayed there.