Review #149: The Lighthouse (2019)
This review was originally written in 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #4- The Lighthouse (2019) This was my second time watching this film, and I'll definitely say I appreciated it more this time than the first time. (I still have no freaking clue what was happening for most of it, and the ending still makes not a lick of sense to me, but I can at least see how deliberate it all was.) Like the director's previous film, The VVitch, this film is an incredibly slow burn and if you don't go in with the right mindset you're probably not going to have a great time. It's such a specific product- it's a movie inspired by a real-world event you probably haven't heard of, created using a specific type of film with a specific aspect ratio to create a very specific look, the actors were taught incredibly specific dialects for their lines (including instruction like "say the third sentence of your second line 75% faster") in order to create...