The Lighthouse poster at the Saint John Cineplex.
Robert Egger’s (The Witch) sophomore film The Lighthouse solidifies his place as one of the most interesting younger directors currently working and his acute understanding of psychological horror.
Robert Pattinson (the once Edward Cullen and future Batman) and Willem Defoe (The English Patient, The Florida Project) play two lighthouse keepers tasked with maintaining a lighthouse on an remote New England island in the 1890s.
Over the course of their four-week seclusion both men slowly and completely lose their grip on reality and sanity, spilling secrets and plumbing the depths of terror aided by enormous amounts of alcohol, disturbing mermaid hallucinations and an extremely annoying and vicious seagull.
The Lighthouse was filmed at Cape Forchu in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia in the spring of 2018 (Atlantic Canada REPRESENTS!). It debuted at the 72nd Cannes Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Directors’ Fortnight prize. The film received unanimous raves from critics and was screened at the FIN Atlantic International Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival leading up to its official release.
The Lighthouse is in theatres now.
