Director Robert Eggers‘ follow-up to “The Witch,” the black and white, twisted sea shanty tale, “The Lighthouse” premiered to rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Having just screened to North American audiences for the first time at the current Toronto International Film Festival, hot on the heels of this second wave of acclaim, A24 has released another trailer for the film.
Set on a remote New England island at the turn of the 19th century, “The Lighthouse” is shot on 35mm black-and-white film by cinematographer Jarin Blaschke. The movie is a psychological thriller which follows the slow descent into madness of two lighthouse keepers (Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson). The movie is reportedly twisted, hilarious and dark, a wild bromance between two men on the edge of sanity.
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The trailer expertly teases the two characters’ deteriorating minds by having the bulk of the footage featuring the two guys sitting across from each other and yelling “What!?” back and forth. It’s simple, yet incredibly effective and really does show that “The Lighthouse” is most definitely not your typical 2019 thriller, by any stretch of the imagination.
In our review of the film, we said, “A lesser filmmaker would provide us with a stabilizing glimpse at the horizon every now and then, but Eggers prefers to let us go gently, deliciously mad along with his doomed duo, with the ravenous seagulls wheeling in the sky, the sea beating ceaselessly on the rocks and our timbers shivering in exquisite uncertainty until the last.”
“The Lighthouse” is expected to arrive in theaters on October 18.
Here’s the synopsis:
From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind the modern horror masterpiece The Witch, comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
