“The Lighthouse”: Warlocks of Loneliness

Thomas Burchfield
Nov 5 · 5 min read
Bad Company . . . .

Writer-director Robert Eggers comes at us once again with his second film The Lighthouse. The director of 2015’s sensational horror classic The Witch again roots around in the soil of early American history but in a style distinct from his first film. It’s dark, grotesque and boldly experimental. Responses will vary but I found it a fine example of “fusion” cinema, a recipe where the basic pleasures of genre movies are…

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Thomas Burchfield

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The author of BUTCHERTOWN, a 1920s gangster thriller and DRAGON’S ARK, a contemporary Dracula tale, both published through Ambler House Publishing.

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