![]() ![]() ![]() The Lighthouse leaves a lot open to interpretation, but it’s this more lucid perspective that the story adopts that helps elevate to something special. A terrifying new horror movie based on Edgar Allan Poes 'The Lighthouse. As the two brothers worked together, The Lighthouse grew and evolved beyond Poe's ideas and turned into the allegorical finished film. Max had hit a stand still on adapting Poe's incomplete short story, and Robert decided to help him with it by adding his own ideas and inspirations to the structure that Max had put together. Eggers shacks two people up in a lighthouse and gives them more to worry about, like a washed up body on shore and increasing delusions, but it's fascinating to see how the barebones structure was able to be taken and improved upon.Ĭuriously, it was actually Robert Eggers' brother, Max, who initially began work on The Lighthouse as a project back when Robert was working on The Witch. While it might be hard to track down, it is suppose to be available on DVD in April. Marooned on a remote peninsula and haunted by frightening specters, a young man must confront the grotesque denizens of the night, or heed the Lighthouse. 52 NR 2 hr 8 min Mar 16th, 2016 Horror Marooned on a remote peninsula and haunted by frightening specters, a young man must confront the grotesque denizens of the night, or heed the Lighthouse. Beyond the setting and the overwhelming themes of isolation and loneliness, there's very little in common between Eggers' film and Poe's short story. Lighthouse Keeper is the newest Edgar Allan Poe adaptation to hit thePoe adaptation market, and it has relatively flown under the radar thus far. Based on an unfinished short story, Edgar Allan Poes Lighthouse Keeper intrigued me with a great concept and the reviews here were nowhere near as bad as. ![]()
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