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The Lighthouse -
Simply put - and yes, I know, this phrase gets thrown around a lot - but this is a modern horror classic. Everything I love about movies like this one, whether it's atmosphere, claustrophobia, dark humor, ambiguity, etc. are all here and Eggers does them even better than he did in The Witch, which I also loved. Forget umm...whoever it is who won the Academy Awards for actor and supporting actor in 2019: Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe gave the male performances of that year. It's the kind of movie where it's entirely possible that each sequence is someone's favorite (it's tremendously hard to pick just one, but Dafoe's highly descriptive demands about how clean the floorboards and nails should be still makes me laugh). Oh, and I guarantee that you will never look at a seagull the same way again.
Simply put - and yes, I know, this phrase gets thrown around a lot - but this is a modern horror classic. Everything I love about movies like this one, whether it's atmosphere, claustrophobia, dark humor, ambiguity, etc. are all here and Eggers does them even better than he did in The Witch, which I also loved. Forget umm...whoever it is who won the Academy Awards for actor and supporting actor in 2019: Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe gave the male performances of that year. It's the kind of movie where it's entirely possible that each sequence is someone's favorite (it's tremendously hard to pick just one, but Dafoe's highly descriptive demands about how clean the floorboards and nails should be still makes me laugh). Oh, and I guarantee that you will never look at a seagull the same way again.