10 Movies You Weren't Supposed To Understand

From the get go, The Lighthouse was clearly going to be strange.

When the trailer came out, audiences got extremely excited, but also a bit confused. The movie was being marketed as a horror, but the trailer didn't seem to have any overt horror themes, even if it did come across as disturbing.

Still, the movie came out to an almost unanimously positive critic reaction, so with all this in mind, fans were understandably setting their hopes high.

And while fans were not disappointed per se, the movie they were expecting was definitely not the movie they got. You see, The Lighthouse's director Robert Eggers had just released the incredible horror film The Witch. While this flick was definitely obscure and slightly puzzling to audiences, it was also accessible enough for more general audiences.

The Lighthouse... was not that kind to its viewers.

About two lighthouse keepers going mad together with a healthy dose of Lovecraftian cosmic horror thrown in for good measure, the hour and fifty minute run time is full of confusing visuals due to the characters' constant delusions and hallucinations, an unsettling score that keeps you on edge and a baffling scene where the two character grunt the word "what" at each other over and over again.

You aren't supposed to understand the film, it's supposed to confuse and unsettle you over anything else, so don't beat yourself up if you "didn't get it".