The Lighthouse

The Lighthouse

There is enchantment in the light.

2019109 min7.5 / 10

A claustrophobic, hallucinatory descent into madness on an isolated island, rendered in stark black-and-white as a Lovecraftian nightmare of psychological and supernatural horror.

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

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