Eden Lake

This Wolf Creek meets Deliverance style horror film with teenagers instead of hillbillies is very well made and acted, almost unendurably tense, and too well told to turn away from - you want it to go somewhere that makes it worth the attention it earns from you. But in playing for realism, it is ultimately confused by aligning itself with slasher movie conventions then concluding with an ending that is abjectly sick, misguided and ultimately pointless. Brimming with hate, it is too real to be a horror movie and too heartless to be a meaningful drama. All it manages to leave you with is, "Why?" Why make this? And what possible point is it supposed to be making?