Friday, April 28, 2023

'Lighthouse' (1999) – Simon Hunter.

Trapped within a desolate lighthouse with vicious, grim-looking, machete-maiming psychopath, Leo Rook (Chris Adamson) able director, Simon Hunter wastes little time righteously scaring the smalls off his audience! Claustrophobic, intense, and frequently quite brilliant, it would be entirely fair to strongly suggest that the head-loppingly lurid slasher 'Lighthouse' remains one of the more uniquely atmospheric, grossly underappreciated British Horror films. Eschewing asinine jump-scares for actual filmmaking, Hunter's more stylishly mounted shocks have a slick, pulse-poundingly De Palma quality. Unlike the cartoonish, Teen-creaming masked maniacs, the genuinely sinister, wraith-like, Leo Rook exudes a mythical Gothic quality, a merciless Lovecraftian lunatic, dat hateful, Rook's one off the hook spook, dude!

 






 

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