Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper (2016 film)

Lighthouse Keeper (2016), AKA Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper, The Light-House

Summary

"When the light goes out, the terror begins!" Marooned on a remote peninsula and haunted by frightening specters, a young man must confront the grotesque denizens of the night, or heed the Lighthouse Keeper's cryptic warning to, 'Always keep a light burning!'

Details

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• Release Date: 2016
• Country/Language: USA, English
• Genres/Technical: Horror
• Setting: Gaslight or Classic sea-side
• Runtime: 1 hr 28 min
• Starring: Vernon Wells, Matt O'Neill, Rachel Riley
• Director: Benjamin Cooper
• Writer: Benjamin Cooper, very loosely inspired by a fragment by Edgar Allan Poe
• Producer/Production Co: Thunderhead Entertainment, Millman Productions, Benjamin Cooper
• View Trailer: (link)
• Wikipedia (for the Poe fragment): (link)
• IMDB Page: (link)

Ratings

MPAA Ratings

• Rated: not rated (equivalent to an R for Violence, Profanity, Adult Content, Nudity, etc.)

Tentacle Ratings

A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:

• SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; vaguely similar in tone, could be a very loose adaptation)

Loosely based on the last, unfinished short story by Edgar Allan Poe unofficially titled "The Light-House", this movie does not strongly resemble the work of either Poe or Lovecraft, but there are some Deep Ones and an oppressive, bleak atmosphere to be found here.

Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.

Reviews

Review Links:

• Review by Jennie Kermode at Eye For Film (Link) (3/5 Stars)
• Review by Brandon Long at PopHorror.com (Link)
• Review by Richard Scheib at The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (Link) (2/5 Stars)
• Review by Misty Wallace at CrypticRock.com (Link) (3/5 Stars)

Synopsis (SPOILERS)

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Marooned on a remote peninsula and haunted by frightening specters, a young man must confront the grotesque denizens of the night, or heed the Lighthouse Keeper's cryptic warning to, 'Always keep a light burning!' The story takes a sort of "Carnival of Souls" turn where the young mad and all the other characters are actually dead and both haunting the lighthouse, and haunted by it.

Notes

Associated Mythos Elements

• fiction: "The Light-House (fragment)" by Edgar Allan Poe
• race: Deep Ones