10 Most Exhausted Horror Movie Protagonists

Eden Lake is the perfect depiction of gang culture within teenagers and how easily peer pressure can manifest itself in a negative way, especially among teenage boys. The 2008 British film left a significant punch with its ending, and actually punishes its audience for making it to the end.

Jenny and Steve are a couple who decide to take a small vacation to an old quarry lake that Steve remembers going to a few years previous. From the get-go there are clear signs of hostility from a group of teenagers who appear to lack any sort of moral compass and manners. The couple encounter them on more than one occasion before things turn sour between the two parties, but as soon as Steve accidentally kills the dog of the leader of the gang, things very quickly become violent.

Hunting the couple down, the gang carry out all kinds of atrocities against Steve upon finding him, and Jenny is left to try and get help in a situation that sees her with no mobile phone and no way of getting to the nearest town other than on foot. It's no easy journey for her, and in between having to hide in a cesspit, and having her foot impaled by a large spike, by the final few minutes of the film her exhaustion is unbearbly apparent.