If you have access to Prime Video and want to watch Robert Pattinson get really intimate with a mattress, The Lighthouse is the film for you.
The 2019 Robert Eggers film – who directed the recent hit Nosferatu – has an impressive 90% on Rotten Tomatoes and has just hit the streaming platform.
Starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson and set in the 1890s, the follows two lighthouse keepers, Thomas Wake (Dafoe) and Ephraim Winslow (Pattinson), who are stationed on a remote, rocky island far from civilisation.
As their isolation deepens, tensions rise, and they begin to be haunted by strange visions, paranoia, and power struggles.
Shot in black-and-white with a claustrophobic aspect ratio, The Lighthouse is an eerie and atmospheric descent into madness.
Fans were left unsettled by the bizarre film, with many flocking to social media to share their thoughts.
X user @in_deserto wrote: ‘One of the few films where even the ASPECT RATIO scared the hell out of me…’
@ephemeralisall agreed: ‘Great movie. Stayed with me for days. Really unnerving.’
@BriAnimator_ wrote: ‘One thing about me, I love The Lighthouse. A top tier descent-into-madness movie and great single location horror story. Masterpiece.’
Rotten Tomatoes agrees with fan’s estimations, with the critic’s consensus reading: ‘A gripping story brilliantly filmed and led by a pair of powerhouse performances, The Lighthouse further establishes Robert Eggers as a filmmaker of exceptional talent.’
Eggers explained his process in 2019, telling Vox: ‘The idea of a fable or a myth is definitely at the forefront of our process. I start with atmosphere. My brother had an idea — a ghost running the lighthouse — that created a look and a feeling of a world in my head.’
Meanwhile, Pattinson ended up in the film out of a desire to just ‘do something weird.’
He told Screen Daily of his role in the movie: ‘Someone who wants to not really talk about their past has either done something wrong or something wrong has happened to them — they just want to get away from it. I knew he had to be very emotionally unstable, but comes from this hardworking, puritan background.
‘He’s a very masculine person who’s going through extreme turmoil, yet he’s looking for validation from an older father figure.’
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