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Message: [QUOTE="dbmill, post: 3709739, member: 2504"] The Lighthouse (2019) - This film is director Robert Eggers follow up to “The Witch” (2015). This arty psychological thriller horror film done in black and white stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as a lighthouse keeper and his newly arrived assistant in the very isolated setting of this particular lighthouse. Those two are the whole show in this one. Pretty much from the beginning the story is fueled by a growing insanity that is additionally fueled by alcoholism, leading to any number of hallucinatory visions. At times it is a difficult to separate the hallucinations from the apparent reality in this film, or to tell exactly what is going on, but that would seem to be all part of the telling of this tale in this film. Interesting bits in this film includes Dafoe’s character reciting various sea related ditties, including singing some songs that include a few sea chanteys, something that is definitely seen as a positive for me and my wife. While I don’t know if this was done intentionally, Dafoe’s bearded and grizzled lighthouse keeper together with how this black and white film is lit at times seems to resemble Lon Chaney Jr. in “The Wolfman”, at least to me. This film wasn’t totally my cup of tea, but it did hold my attention. [/QUOTE]