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Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #15. Robert Eggers’ The Light House

Published on February 8, 2019

The Light House

Robert Eggers blasted onto the scene with what we can describe his own brand of unconventional horror. Production on his sophomore film, The Light House, began in April in Nova Scotia with Robert Pattinson being joined by Willem Dafoe. Tipped as a B&W dark fantasy horror film, Eggers reteams with The Witch (read review) DP Jarin Blaschke on what became an early A24 project. Youree Henley (The Beguiled), RT Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira and Lourenço Sant’ Anna (Ad Astra), and Parts & Labor’s Jay Van Hoy (The Witch) are the producing team.

Gist: Written by Max and Robert Eggers, this is et in 1890, this is the story of an aging lighthouse keeper named Old who lives in early 20th-century Maine.

Release Date/Prediction: With a Sundance 2019 premiere not in the cards, Robert Eggers will be looking towards the Croisette for a Palme d’Or inclusion.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).