<em>The Lodge </em>Is an Unsettling but Underwhelming Thriller
The new horror film from the creators of <em>Goodnight Mommy </em>features a nightmarish battle of wills between two kids and a mother figure whom they don’t entirely trust.
Halfway through , a creepy indie horror set in a remote, snowed-in cabin, someone makes the terrible and brilliant choice to turn on John Carpenter’s . The homage, though unsubtle, is perfectly appropriate: The scenes from that 1982 masterpiece playing out on a tiny TV mirror the isolation, paranoia, and distrust in Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s new film. Yet it’s always an unfortunate sign when the characters in one movie decide tois a passable night of thrills at the cinema—but you might enjoy yourself more if you go home and watch instead
