Overview
From visionary filmmaker Robert Eggers ('The Witch'), this heavily atmospheric horror film follows two lighthouse keepers living on an isolated New England island in the 1890s. When a violent storm prevents them from leaving, the pair must fight each other to retain their sanity and survive as reality seems to crumble all around them.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Robert Eggers - Director
Willem Dafoe
Robert Pattinson
Valeriia Karaman
Details
- Format: Blu-ray (Digital Copy)
- Run Time: 109
- Color Format: Black and White
- UPC: 031398313892
- Genre: Fantasy
- Rating: R (MPAA) (sexual content, nudity, violence, disturbing images, and some language)
- Release Date: January 2020
Movie Reviews
Reviews:
"In gripping performances thick with flavorful period dialect and jolts of ever-intensifying insanity soaked in rum, Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson play the seasoned keeper and his new junior mate in THE LIGHTHOUSE..." - 05/19/2019 Hollywood Reporter
"Crow and his two fine, Welsh-burred leads commit fully to the anguished, nerve-fraying cause..." - 07/04/2018 Variety
- 09/06/2019 RogerEbert.com
4 stars out of 5 -- "THE LIGHTHOUSE seeps into your bones with the chill of the sea wind." - 10/15/2019 Rolling Stone
"The stark black-and-white cinematography deepens the film's shadows and unease, but it also throws these grizzled faces into relief, sharpening their cheekbones and revealing the death’s head under each man’s grimace." - 10/16/2019 New York Times
"THE LIGHTHOUSE a monochromatic new nightmare from the writer and director of THE WITCH, supplies both actors with plenty of dialogue....But it also knows when to let those interesting faces, ornamented with spectacular tufts of hair, do the talking for them." - 10/15/2019 A.V. Club
"It's a bracing squall of a movie, a briny delight that's as amusing as it is mesmerizingly strange..." - 10/18/2019 The Atlantic
5 stars out of 5 -- "The erosion of sanity is so incremental that you almost don’t realise it’s happened." - 01/27/2020 Empire
5 stars out of 5 -- "THE LIGHTHOUSE is shot in exquisite, full-frame monochrome -- an aspect ratio that adds to both the squirming claustrophobia and period aesthetics..." - 01/31/2020 Total Film
"In conjuring mood, atmosphere and mounting tension, American writer-director Robert Eggers is a skilful craftsman." - 02/02/2020 The Guardian
"Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe give towering performances as a pair of feuding 19th century lightkeepers in this mad, magnificently crafted New England gothic..." - 04/07/2020 Los Angeles Times
