12 Brilliant Recent Horror Movies That Shocked Everyone

Somehow, The Lighthouse has done something very difficult: it's used its overt artiness effectively to add to its horror, instead of redirecting brainpower and making us think so much we end up missing the spook.

The Lighthouse does everything in its power to amp up the claustrophobic discomfort one would find on a rocky island in the middle of the ocean, with only questionable alcohol to make life even a smidgen easier. Its miniscule aspect ratio and monochromatic colour palette do more than give The Lighhouse an old-timey feel; you're literally as boxed in as our two characters in their tiny cottage rooms and stifling social roles as lighthouse keepers.

All that is before we've even gotten to Robert Patterson and Willam Defoe in the roles of a lifetime. Who doesn't want to see Edward Cullen and Norman Osborne as wickies with homoerotic leanings, getting drunk every night and farting incessantly?

The Lighthouse, for all its realism in setting and characterisation, is a pleasingly surreal horror trip that deserves a watch, and maybe even a rewatch.