WTF Happened to The Lighthouse?

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

WTF Happened To This Movie? – The JoBlo series that looks at troubled productions, curious creative decisions, box-office failures, surprising successes, and cult favorites!

Director Robert Eggers followed the sleeper horror hit The Witch with his 2019 sophomore effort The Lighthouse, an unsettling and claustrophobic Willem Dafoe/Robert Pattinson tale. It was intended to be “small and easy”, but proved to be quite the opposite thanks to experimental acting, merciless weather and outdated filmmaking techniques. Order the lobster and find out “WTF Happened to THE LIGHTHOUSE!”