Covering similar ground to the British film Eden Lake While She Was Out sees Kim Basinger as a middle class woman that gets into a confrontation with a group of working class kids only for things to spiral out of control and end in violence.
But whereas Eden Lake felt real and thus more horrifying as a result While She Was Out is so ludicrously unbelievable in parts that it breaks the spell. From the choice of making the gang a perfectly ethnically diverse mix of pretty young men to the bizarre seduction scene the film lacks any sense of verisimilitude.
