‘The Lighthouse’ Is About A Job From Hell
Working yer beans off drives men mad!
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4 min readFeb 11, 2020
Director Robert Eggers isn’t just an evocative and provocative horror filmmaker (as anyone who saw his haunting debut The Witch knows.) He is also a master of scatological humor and, even more surprisingly, is able to find the pathos in dick & fart jokes. His most recent offering, The Lighthouse, is a hallucinatory black & white…