The Lighthouse (2019)

The Lighthouse rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.4/10· 301K votes

Rotten Tomatoes90%

Metacritic83%

TMDb7.5/10· 6K votes

With 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.4/10 on IMDb and 83/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About The Lighthouse

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

Cast of The Lighthouse

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  Robert Pattinson

  as Thomas Howard

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  Willem Dafoe

  as Thomas Wake

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  Valeriia Karaman

  as Mermaid

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  Logan Hawkes

  as Ephraim Winslow

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  Kyla Nicolle

  as Woman on the Rocks

• S

  Shaun Clarke

  as Departing Wickie

• P

  Pierre Richard

  as Departing Assistant Wickie

• P

  Preston Hudson

  as Tender Mate

• J

  Jeff Cruts

  as Tender Mate

• S

  Sully Seagull

  as Seagull

The Lighthouse facts

Budget

$11M

Box office

$18.3M

Our take on The Lighthouse

Robert Eggers strands two lighthouse keepers on a remote New England island in the 1890s and watches their grip on sanity slowly loosen. Shot with a suffocating, claustrophobic intensity, this drama slides between the grimly real and the hallucinatory, a slow-burn descent where isolation, resentment and the crashing sea do the work of any monster. Expect striking black-and-white imagery, salty period dialogue and two performances built on rising dread rather than jump scares. It rewards patient viewers who like atmosphere, ambiguity and psychological tension over neat explanations. If you want a film that feels like a bad dream you can't shake, El faro delivers exactly that unease.