10 Best Horror Movies Of 2019
4. The Lighthouse
Not yet released worldwide, the USA has been treated to an early look at Robert Eggers's follow up to The Witch, again set in a time long past as two lighthouse keepers try to not lose their minds in 1890s. Filmed in black and white, Eggers has taken his special sense of direction and pasted it into a world that is as gothic as its colour scheme, seeing Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson bust out a ridiculously engrossing two-man show that unfolds in a turret.
The pair are tasked with looking after The Lighthouse in various ways - menial work for Pattinson's Ephraim, and the light itself for Dafoe's Tom - with the pair resentful and querulous as their four week period of work slowly devolving into madness. Emotions run high as the claustrophobia ramps up, with harsh sea life so clearly envisioned on screen you can practically taste the salt.
The Lighthouse has got mad wanks, mermaids, and an overwhelming sense of dread and tension that is expertly played out somewhere between psychological horror and entrancing drama. What more could you want?