The Lighthouse

•••ONE OF MY TOP FILMS EVER••• Probably one of my biggest slaps in cinema, I don’t know why I passed over it for many time.Surreal, phantasmagorical, and intoxicatingly claustrophobic, even set against the backdrop of a remote islet in 19th-century New England. Eggers, an exciting name among today's modern horror reformers, breathes a theatrical atmosphere into a supernatural aura where demons are both physical and human. His powerful, deeply committed performances fuel this infernal machine.The casting is just perfect, nothing to say. Dafoe is as always makes the blood run cold, whereas Pattinson is a pretty huge surprise, he has convince me to love him and accept him as a good actor (I suceed to forget his horrible roles in the past). The fact that the movie is in black and white accentuates the emphasis on the nuance between good and evil (who is the good guy, who is the bad guy, the ying and the yang) that we see throughout the film. Also the lighthouse has a very important place, its a character in its own right, its almost always in the screen or when its not there, we hear its chilling cries. The lighthouse is highlighted thanks to the format of the film which forces us to contemplate it from start to end.Here, it is madness in crescendo, where the feeling of uncertainty and imminent euphoria consistently drives the audience mad. If this film hadn't the same construction of The Witch (2015), Its a masterpiece 10/10