The latest thriller written and directed by Robert Eggers ('The Witch') is a stormy, magnificently crafted 19th-century gothic.
The words “elevated horror” have recently spurred some debate and defensiveness among cinephiles, particularly those who reject the notion that horror needed elevating in the first place. But “The Lighthouse,” Robert Eggers’ bleak and blisteringly funny squall of a film, might actually prove worthy of the term. Not because this movie displays unusual artistry or transcends its genre , but for the more literal-minded reason expressed in the title.
and a bit of a sadist, and the brash pleasure of this movie exists in inverse proportion to the misery it inflicts on its characters. “The Lighthouse” is a ferocious battle of wills, a tour de force of cold, clammy suspense and a protracted descent into cabin-fever madness.
“Stick to yer duties. The light is mine,” Thomas tells Ephraim, warning him away from the bright rotating aerobeacon that he keeps blazing night after night. That light has mysterious, perhaps even mythic properties, and it seems to drive Ephraim slowly mad with resentment as it glares down on him from above, an Olympian hearth eternally out of reach.
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