The Ligthouse and overcoming the self

Caleb Dixon
Nov 3 · 4 min read
A triumphant victory for the post horror vanguard. The lightouse is a literary tale in spirit, fit for modernity that creates abject horror without found footage, chainsaw or pale victorian child in sight.

Last week I had the privilege of attending an advanced UK screening of emerging auteur Robert Eggers’ The lighthouse as part of film fours’ fear four recent cinema events at the Hyde Park Picture House. Come the general UK release on January 31st I will be seeing it again, then again. In quintessential arthouse fashion the films’ meaning is one of ambiguity, I will not give explicit details that would spoil the film but…

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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

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