The film Eden Lake follows a couple, Jenny and Steve, who have a horrific encounter with a gang of rebellious teens while on a weekend trip to a lake. A set of events leads to Steve being killed and Jenny battling for her survival against the teens. The film examines societies' fears about unruly youth and how parenting plays a role. It also portrays an unfair stereotype of rural communities being unwelcoming to outsiders. While Jenny challenges the "final girl" trope by not being a virgin, she takes on masculine traits to fight to the end, though unlike typical final girls, she does not survive.

1. By Izabella Tulip-Parkin

2. PLOT
The film follows a story of a couple Jenny (Kelly Reilly) and Steve
(Michael Fassbender) who go to spend a weekend at a lake side, but
on their trip encounter a groups of rebellious teens. A set of events
go on leading to a horrific battle between the couple and the gang of
teens leaving Steve dead and Jenny to battle till the end.

3. Eden Lake epitomize societies fear of unruly teens and this idea that they can not be controlled.
It also bring up the issue that it is not just down to the child, but stems from the parents
themselves as you see in the final scene when Jenny is left to battle the parents of the gang of
children after they had found she had killed one of the teens.
To an extent I would say the film create quite an unfair stereotype of country men and women.
As we see in the scene when Steve and Jenny visit the town to go for breakfast there is an
awkward conversation between one of the waitresses with in the café. It was awkward in the
sense that the waitress judged as was rude to the couple as she new they did not live or come
from the local community. This moment conveys the stereotype that small community in the
country side are so close knit that they do not like people visiting from other places that they do
not like to mix with anyone out of the village.

4. Eden Lake’s main character Jenny (Kelly Reilly) to an extent challenges the final girl
theory. She does not follow the characteristics of being a virgin and she doesn’t fully
embody this idea of the final girl being curious and vigilant, but try's to ignore the
situation. However when it came to the climax of the film Jenny did take on her
masculine side to her character as she battle against the gang of teens and their
parents to the final minutes of the film. On the other hand (spoiler) she doesn’t not
live and get away as most final girls do although the film seems to hint until the last
few seconds that she will get away, but she does not.