A weekend of winter fun turns grisly in a horror tale by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz
The most horrible thing about “The Lodge,” a horror flick set mostly in a snowbound vacation house, is that it’s no fun.
Scary movies about screw-loose characters doing awful things to one another are supposed to be perversely enjoyable; we like to be terrified when we can control the terror, if only by closing our eyes. This film, directed by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz—they did the deadly effective “Goodnight Mommy”—deploys its elements dutifully, then plays them out at the speed of permafrost melting beneath a December sun.
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