A24 has released a second trailer forThe Lighthousea little over a month after the first one arrived to stir up all kinds of curiosity about directorRobert Eggers' sophomore feature film.The LighthousestarsRobert PattinsonandWillem Dafoeas two 19th-century lighthouse keepers with a bad, bad case of cabin fever.
The latestLighthousetrailer begins with Thomas (Pattinson) inquiring about the last man assigned to help Ephraim (Dafoe) take care of the lighthouse situated on a craggy rock somewhere eternally gloomy. With a turn-of-the-century accent spoken in a tone as jagged as the rocks that surround the lighthouse, Ephraim tells Thomas the last man went mad, believing there was “some enchantment in the light.”
If that’s not enough of a signal to you that things get increasingly unnerving in thisLighthousetrailer, than I don’t know what will. Ephraim is suspicious of Thomas' origin story, mentioning the danger of secrets (keep a pin in that if and when you watch, folks). Things get peak-weird when Thomas and Ephraim get locked in the worstDude Where’s My Car-meets-Meisner repetition exercise momentas they continually repeat “What?” as each other in their claustrophobic shared bedroom. That’s ignoring all of the fog, a quick glimpse as what is quite possibly a corpse, and an octopus tentacle slithering overhead as Thomas hides from it.
All in all, Eggers has seemingly managed to up the ante on his use of both atmospheric tension and minimalism to evoke some truly unsettling results. Eggers co-wrote the script with brotherMax Eggers. This is also the director’s second film to be released by A24.
The Lighthousearrives in limited release to Los Angeles and New York theaters on October 18 before a wider release sometime afterward. Check out the latest trailer below:
And here’s the enigmatic, albeit quite brief, synopsis forThe Lighthouse:
From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpieceThe Witchcomes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
