Movie review: The eerie, unabashed 'Lighthouse' illuminates the broken psyches of two men
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Oct 18, 2019
4 minutes
The words "elevated horror" have recently spurred 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 (it does) or transcends its genre (it doesn't) but for the more literal-minded reason expressed in the title.
For the better part of two hours we are stranded at a lighthouse station on a craggy island off the coast of Maine, sometime in the 1890s. Two "wickies," or lightkeepers - played with
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