A recent widow is glad when her son finds a new friend. But it soon becomes clear that he's after a different type of companionship. Will their attraction be her undoing? And what secrets is hiding?
The Lighthouse is a 2019 film directed and produced by Robert Eggers, from a screenplay coauthored with his brother Max Eggers. It stars Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as turmoiled nineteenth-century lighthouse keepers stranded at a remote New England outpost by a violent storm. The film has defied categorization in media, and interpretations of it range among horror film, psychological thriller, or character study, among others.
