The Lighthouse (2019)

Hypnotic, hallucinatory and claustrophobic, heavily wrapped with mystery while wearing its influences on its sleeve, “The Lighthouse” allows us all to take a walk on the wild side and doesn’t let us come back to the other side in one piece,... Read the full review »

“The Lighthouse” is a psychological nightmare of a film. This second feature from director Robert Eggers is a hypnotic, macabre, hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers who slowly succumb to the isolation-induced madness of a remote, myst... Read the full review »

The Lighthouse shines a mythologically surreal light of dread upon its sluggishly repetitious narrative. “Should pale death with treble dread - Make the ocean caves our bed. God who hear’st the surges roll - Deign to save our supplicant soul�... Read the full review »

The Lighthouse is an atmospheric movie. The plot can be summarised in one line, that being simply; two men are left alone and go mad. While the film arguably has more meat than that, it is an experience of a film. With the claustrophobic aspect ra... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Max and Robert Eggers' 'The Lighthouse,' follows a wickie called Wake (Willem Dafoe) and his new assistant Winslow (Robert Pattinson) on a rock in the ocean to maintain a lighthouse. But though the premise is simple, the narrative is... Read the full review »