It’s also an absolute riot, the season’s sickest gross-out comedy gussied up in arthouse duds. There are allusions to ancient ocean legends and fabled curses copped from Herman Melville and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, but beneath all the mythological bluster it’s really a movie about two guys living too close together and driving each other slowly, spectacularly insane. It’s a wild, hallucinatory blitzkrieg shot in high-contrast black-and-white with a sound design that’s more like a sensory assault. Facebook Email Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson in Robert Eggers' 'The Lighthouse.' (Courtesy A24)Ī horror movie about having a roommate, writer-director Robert Eggers’ striking sophomore effort “The Lighthouse” is a visually arresting wallow in ye olde New England dread replete with phantasmagoric glimpses of sea monster tentacles and wounded mermaids washed up on shore.
