
Reviews — The Lighthouse
Audience write-ups from TMDB
SierraKiloBravo
I honestly couldn't tell you what I was looking at as the credits started, but I really enjoyed _The Lighthouse_. I had been wanting to watch this film ever since I first saw the trailer, and it recently became available for rent on YouTube. Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson are in it? What’s that strange movie with its square black-and-white look all about, you might ask? Here's what they say it's about: _Two …
Stephen Campbell
_**A superbly made film about madness, isolation, alcohol, a pissed off one-eyed seagull, and farts**_ >_But, as we near'd the lonely Isle;_ >_And look'd up at the naked height;_ >_And saw the lighthouse towering white,_ >_With blinded lantern, that all night_ >_Had never shot a spark_ >_Of comfort through the dark,_ >_So ghastly in the cold sunlight_ >_It seem'…
SWITCH.
I feared that my very high hopes for 'The Lighthouse' would inevitably lead to letdown, but thankfully and surprisingly, it managed to go beyond them. It’s an exceptional, perplexing, mesmerizing, frustrating, funny, unsettling, confusing, stimulating, complete whirlwind of a film, saturated with mud, sweat, salt, alcohol, waste, bodily fluids, raw shouts of anger and fear, the laughter of lunatics and the weeping of…
Matthew Brady
“𝐾𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑠, 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑒?” Time for the truth… ‘The Lighthouse’ is a masterpiece! I absolutely adored it; every minute was captivating. It's easily one of my favorite films from 2019, and I can’t imagine anything surpassing it. The story unfolds as a gradual descent into madness that lingers in your mind long afterward. From the very beginning, I sensed this would be something special. I remain…
Manuel São Bento
I’m drawn to unusual films—those moments of awkwardness, perplexing ambiguity, or just plain bizarre sequences that really grab my attention and make me wonder what the filmmaker is trying to convey. *The Lighthouse* certainly fits into that category; it's a psychological horror film that will leave you questioning what you've witnessed. Surprisingly, though, this one is quite accessible, with most of the story being…


