Robert Eggers was in his third year of trying to get “The Witch” made when his brother Max told him he was working on a ghost story.
“I was very envious of that idea,” said Eggers when he was a guest on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “It was a contemporary story about a guy repairing a haunted lighthouse with his dog. A couple months later, I asked him how that was going, he said, ‘Sucks.’ So I asked if I can take a crack at the concept, which I then immediately turned into a period movie.”
Like “The Witch,” making a period film intrigued Eggers for the visuals as well as for the lure of forensic research. By digging into the lives of men who were lighthouse caretakers over a hundred years ago, he found a constant flow of inspiration.
“I don’t get a lot of writer’s block,...
“I was very envious of that idea,” said Eggers when he was a guest on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “It was a contemporary story about a guy repairing a haunted lighthouse with his dog. A couple months later, I asked him how that was going, he said, ‘Sucks.’ So I asked if I can take a crack at the concept, which I then immediately turned into a period movie.”
Like “The Witch,” making a period film intrigued Eggers for the visuals as well as for the lure of forensic research. By digging into the lives of men who were lighthouse caretakers over a hundred years ago, he found a constant flow of inspiration.
“I don’t get a lot of writer’s block,...
- 10/31/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
The Lighthouse seeps into your bones with the chill of the sea wind. Stunningly directed by Robert Eggers from a script he wrote with his brother, Max, and shot in black and white in the boxy aspect ratio common in the silent era, The Lighthouse is set in the 1890s on a deserted island off the coast of Maine. It’s there, with the lighthouse looming above them, that extraordinary actors Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson duel with each other — as well as a raging storm, demon rum, masturbatory fantasies and mystical portents (a seagull,...
- 10/15/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
“Why’d ya spill yer beans?”
The director of the highly acclaimed horror film The Witch, Robert Eggers, has directed a new historical set horror thriller called The Lighthouse. The movie stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson and the first trailer has been released.
I thought The Witch was an incredibly well-made film and I’ve been curious to see how this next film of his turns out. I’m certainly impressed and intrigued by this first trailer that has been released! I love the dark and stormy vibe of the story. There’s an intense mystery building and it looks like there’s going to be a supernatural element to the story.
I love the attention to the gritty details that Eggers puts into his films and Dafoe and Pattinson look like they are going to deliver outstanding performances!
The film is set in 1890 and the story follows two...
The director of the highly acclaimed horror film The Witch, Robert Eggers, has directed a new historical set horror thriller called The Lighthouse. The movie stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson and the first trailer has been released.
I thought The Witch was an incredibly well-made film and I’ve been curious to see how this next film of his turns out. I’m certainly impressed and intrigued by this first trailer that has been released! I love the dark and stormy vibe of the story. There’s an intense mystery building and it looks like there’s going to be a supernatural element to the story.
I love the attention to the gritty details that Eggers puts into his films and Dafoe and Pattinson look like they are going to deliver outstanding performances!
The film is set in 1890 and the story follows two...
- 7/30/2019
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
“The Lighthouse,” the second feature directed by Robert Eggers (“The Witch”), is a gripping and turbulent drama that draws on a number of influences, though it merges them into its own fluky gothic historical ominoso art-thriller thing. Set in the 1890s, and suffused with foghorns and epic gusts of wind, as well as a powerfully antiquated sense of myth and legend, the movie is shot in shimmeringly austere black-and-white, with a radically old-fashioned 1.19:1 aspect ratio. That lends everything that happens a weird immersive clarity. The entire film is set on a desolate island of jagged black rock, where a gnarly old sea dog, played by Willem Dafoe, declaiming his lines like Captain Ahab on a bender, is tending the lighthouse there for four weeks along with his new assistant, played with surly reticence — and then an aggression that bursts out of him like a demon — by Robert Pattinson.
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- 5/19/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
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