The Lighthouse (2019)
DramaFantasyHorrorThriller
islandnightmareisolationmermaidhallucinationlighthousebased on true storylighthouse keeper black and whitestormmale masturbationnew englandmadnessdrunkenness19th centuryisolated islandlovecraftian1890sawestruckforeboding
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Flocks
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Salt & Cinema: Films of the Sea
1 members · 8 movies
Ahoy! A flock for those who feel the call of the ocean. Boats, lighthouses, fishing, and the mighty deep — if it smells of saltwater and sounds like waves, it belongs here. Curated by a sailor who's spent more time at sea than on dry land.
Saltwater Reels
1 members · 11 movies
A flock for films that smell of brine and tar — lighthouses, tall ships, sea voyages, coastal life, and the deep blue in all its moods. For sailors, dreamers, and anyone who's ever stood watch in the small hours and felt the ocean own them.
Crew
Robert Eggers
director
Robert Eggers
writer
Max Eggers
writer
Jay Van Hoy
producer
Robert Eggers
producer
Youree Henley
producer
Rodrigo Teixeira
producer
Lourenço Sant'Anna
producer
Cast
Robert Pattinson
Thomas Howard
Willem Dafoe
Thomas Wake
Valeriia Karaman
Mermaid
Logan Hawkes
Ephraim Winslow
Kyla Nicolle
Woman on the Rocks
Shaun Clarke
Departing Wickie
Pierre Richard
Departing Assistant Wickie
Preston Hudson
Tender Mate
Jeff Cruts
Tender Mate
Arnon Milchan
Executive Producer
Chris Columbus
Executive Producer
Eleanor Columbus
Executive Producer
Michael Schaefer
Executive Producer
Michael Volpe
Co-Producer
Caito Ortiz
Executive Producer
Sophie Mas
Executive Producer
Jeffrey Penman
Co-Producer
Yariv Milchan
Executive Producer
Josh Peters
Executive Producer
Alan Terpins
Executive Producer
Rodrigo Gutiérrez
Executive Producer
Isaac Ericson
Executive Producer
Sam Hanson
Associate Producer
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Aye, this one hits close to home. Spent three weeks at a lighthouse on the Maine coast once, pinned down by a nor'easter, just me and the keeper. Pattinson and Dafoe capture that creeping madness of isolation at the edge of the sea perfectly. The black-and-white photography feels like the ocean itself — cold, merciless, and beautiful. Any sailor who's been truly alone out there will feel this one in their bones.
Three weeks on the Maine coast in a nor'easter — you've earned every word of that, Magne. The 1.19:1 frame Eggers chose is no accident either; that near-square ratio closes in on you like a fog bank rolling from the northeast. What got me most though were the seagulls. Eggers uses them like the old sailors used them — not as decoration but as omens. There's something in the way they wheel and scream around that tower that speaks to every superstition the sea has ever bred into men. By the final act I was as gone as Dafoe. Magnificent madness.