10 Best Horror Movies Told In Real Time

2. Cherry Tree Lane

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Released in 2010, Song For Marion director Paul Andrew Williams' Cherry Tree Lane is a strange mash up of the director's first two films, 2006's gritty social realist drama London to Brighton and 2008's silly, gory horror comedy The Cottage.

As if trying to find a bizarre middle ground between these polar extremes, this dark and gritty "hoodie horror" from 2010 stages a home invasion entirely in tense real time as a set of vicious youths descend upon the titular suburban home in order to avenge a friend.

More like a blackly comic Pinter play than Eden Lake, this dark and unsettling slice of social drama depicts these nihilistic kids as soulless monsters and their captives as uncaring, absent parents. There's little hope here, but a whole lot of tension and sharp dialogue as the tense siege between the kids and adults is drawn out over the film's real time action.

It's an uncomfortable and bracing watch, one with more verve and wit than the then-recent The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael, and as a result Williams' film is one of few "hoodie horrors", which alongside 2010's F and 2012's Citadel, doesn't make for dated and cringeworthy watching a decade later.

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