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it's been a long four years since Robert Eggers announced himself as a director to watch out for following his breakthrough debut, The VVitch. this has been my most anticipated movie of 2019 for sure for sure



The Lighthouse is a 2019 black-and-white psychological horror film directed by Robert Eggers and written by him and Max Eggers. It stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. The film chronicles the story of two lighthouse keepers as they are faced with solitude, but start to lose their sanity and become threatened by their worst nightmares. Wikipedia

It is a truly unbelievable film, achieving depths of cerebral insanity horror has rarely breached and impregnating it with a dark sense of comedic absurdity to allow viewers some semblance of stability as the plot derails into nautical oblivion.
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The Lighthouse is a dizzying, joyous celebration, a riot of smell and clanging noise dressed up in formally austere arthouse clothing, whose unsettling crescendo of derangement pushes the spectator into a state of semi-rapture.
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I thought that The Witch sucked but this looks like it could be good. Sort of looks and feels like Persona (with dudes) mixed with Vampyr. I'm not holding my breath, but I'm intrigued.
 
Bullitt68 said:
I thought that The Witch sucked but this looks like it could be good. Sort of looks and feels like Persona (with dudes) mixed with Vampyr. I'm not holding my breath, but I'm intrigued.
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I like horror that is psychogical, subtly supernatural and unsettling vs jump scares. Isn’t this based on a true story btw?
 
Here’s the story I am referring to:

The old lighthouse brought about a change in lighthouse policy in 1801 after a gruesome episode. The two-man team, Thomas Howell and Thomas Griffith, were known to quarrel, so when Griffith died in a freak accident, Howell feared that he might be suspected of murder if he discarded the body into the sea.[9] As the body began to decompose, Howell built a makeshift coffin for the corpse and lashed it to an outside shelf. Stiff winds blew the box apart, though, and the body's arm fell within view of the hut's window and caused the wind to catch it in such a way that it seemed as though it was beckoning. Working alone and with the decaying corpse of his former colleague outside Howell managed to keep the lamp lit.​
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalls_Lighthouse
 
The Green Goblin and Batman - the Titanic Team Up you demanded!:D
 
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i'll look forward to any a24 horror releases, but especially this one. loved the trailer, and definitely have high expectations for robert egger's second movie.
 
Bullitt68 said:
I thought that The Witch sucked but this looks like it could be good. Sort of looks and feels like Persona (with dudes) mixed with Vampyr. I'm not holding my breath, but I'm intrigued.
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Why is it shot in that format and what looks like 30 FPS?
 
HenryFlower said:
it's been a long four years since Robert Eggers announced himself as a director to watch out for following his breakthrough debut, The VVitch. this has been my most anticipated movie of 2019 for sure for sure



The Lighthouse is a 2019 black-and-white psychological horror film directed by Robert Eggers and written by him and Max Eggers. It stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. The film chronicles the story of two lighthouse keepers as they are faced with solitude, but start to lose their sanity and become threatened by their worst nightmares. Wikipedia
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Kinda like that lighthouse movie with Gerard Butler and the old land owner/bad guy who got poisoned and killed by his wife in Ozark.


 
Rob Battisti said:
Why is it shot in that format and what looks like 30 FPS?
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i think having a boxier aspect ratio like that is usually meant to make the movie feel more claustrophobic and given that this movie seems like it'll be taking place mostly in a lighthouse with two guys cooped up together, that seems like what eggers is going for. and as @HenryFlower said it's probably also meant to be an homage to much older films.
 
Fork said:
i think having a boxier aspect ratio like that is usually meant to make the movie feel more claustrophobic and given that this movie seems like it'll be taking place mostly in a lighthouse with two guys cooped up together, that seems like what eggers is going for. and as @HenryFlower said it's probably also meant to be an homage to much older films.
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excellent point. Eggers has proven to be a very detail oriented filmmaker in a similar vein to Kubrick & every decision he makes has a specific purpose, so this is probably right on the money.
 
Fork said:
i think having a boxier aspect ratio like that is usually meant to make the movie feel more claustrophobic and given that this movie seems like it'll be taking place mostly in a lighthouse with two guys cooped up together, that seems like what eggers is going for. and as @HenryFlower said it's probably also meant to be an homage to much older films.
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The boxy aspect ratio was supposed to favor big budget old productions that took wide angles of everything in the hopes that it helped audiences feel the scale of classic history and war films

Arthouse took the boxy aspect ratio to film distance and close up shots like a wide angle, to evoke that classic grand scale feel when watching the mundane like a south korean steel worker packing up for the day
 
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