The Lighthouse

SWITCH.

10/10

I was worried that my enormously high expectations for 'The Lighthouse' would set me up for inevitable disappointment, but to my relief and awe, it somehow exceeded them. This is an extraordinary, baffling, hypnotic, maddening, hilarious, disturbing, disorienting, arousing, absolute mindfuck of a film, drenched in mud and sweat and salt and booze and shit and semen and piss and blood, primal screa...

Stephen Campbell

8/10

_**A superbly made film about madness, isolation, alcohol, a pissed off one-eyed seagull, and farts**_ >_But, as we near'd the lonely Isle;_ >_And look'd up at the naked height;_ >_And saw the lighthouse towering white,_ >_With blinded lantern, that all night_ >_Had never shot a spark_ >_Of comfort through the dark,_ >_So ghastly in the cold sunlight_ >_It seem'd, that we w...

Click here for a video version of this review: https://youtu.be/qvEDkWC9MMk “I’ve got no idea what I just watched, but I loved it” - those were my exact words as the credits rolled on _The Lighthouse_. I’d been chomping at the bit to watch this ever since seeing the first trailer, and recently it’s finally became available for rent on YouTube. Starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson? What...

A cinematic portrayal of the human condition that is as unpleasant as it is intriguing.

Involving a storm, a small bit of cabin fever and a touch of lovecraftian mermaid mythos... comes 2019’s feature The Lighthouse directed by Robert Eggers written in part by Maxwell Eggers originally loosely based off of Edgar Allan Poe’s last known bit of writing of basically the same name. Taking out the elements of Poe This film follows two men one older one younger played by Robert Pattinson an...

To me this is a perfect film. The emotional ebbs and flows of the narrative wash over you and one moment you're laughing then dread overwhelms you. It's expertly crafted both technically and artistically. Even the sound design lingered with me for days afterward. It's not a film for everyone. The narrative is far from typical, the dialogue is a heavy dialect, and it's one you have to be abso...