#The 20 Best 2000s Horror Movies Ranked

Sadly, the gallows humor in “Drag Me to Hell” is the last gleam of sunshine we’ll get on this list. The top two spots are taken up by movies that couldn’t be any more bleak. One common factor among all the top three films, however, is there are no happy endings.

In “Eden Lake,” a survival-horror film set in England, a young couple on a romantic camping trip finds their tranquility ruined by a group of rowdy teenagers. When the boyfriend, Steve (Michael Fassbender), dares to confront the delinquents and asks them to turn their music down, the couple are chased down, captured, and tortured, all in a mindless and feral act of petty revenge.

With no supernatural trappings and shot with documentary-style realism, “Eden Lake” is somewhat of an ordeal. It doesn’t shy away from the violence, and the film becomes increasingly more uncomfortable to watch as it goes, culminating in a ghastly final act. The perfectly-cast teenagers, free to indulge their sickest fantasies, are immoral, vindictive, and singularly terrifying. Vilified by some, who accused “Eden Lake” of demonizing the working classes, the film is “Deliverance” by way of a rough UK council estate, and its horror feels all too authentic, believable, and real.