Lighthouse (2000/I)

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Director:

Simon Hunter

Writers:

Simon Hunter (writer)
Graeme Scarfe (story)

Release Date:

9 August 2000 (France)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Evil lurks in the light.

Plot:

A prison ship on its way to a remote island prison runs aground on rocks and sinks. Mixed survivors of cons and prison guards struggle ashore...

Plot Keywords:

Rock | Severed Head | Night | Lighthouse | Person On Fire

Awards:

2 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

James Purefoy	...	Richard Spader
Rachel Shelley	...	Dr. Kirsty McCloud
Christopher Adamson	...	Leo Rook
Paul Brooke	...	Captain Campbell
Don Warrington	...	Prison Officer Ian Goslet
Christopher Dunne	...	Chief Prison Officer O'Neil (as Chris Dunne)
Bob Goody	...	Weevil
Pat Kelman	...	Spoons
Peter McCabe	...	Prison Officer Hopkins
Norman Mitchell	...	Brownlow
Howard Attfield	...	Sykes
Jason Round	...	Spitfield
Stuart Callaghan	...	Ship's Mate
Yolande Davis	...	Young Prison Officer
Sarah Wateridge	...	McCloud's Mother

Also Known As:

Dead of Night (USA) (video title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong horror violence/gore and some language.

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1999) | Netherlands:16 | France:-12 | Germany:18 | South Korea:18 | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Cornwall, England, UK

Company:

British Screen Productions

Trivia:

Last film role of Norman Mitchell.

Quotes:

Dr. Kirsty McCloud: The only pleasure was in his lab, the hobby became a job, the job became an obsession, the obsession became this

Well what can I say

Could probably be summed up as reasonably entertaining, predictable nonsense.

Every scene moving one to the other was so predictable. In fact you could say everything that happened could have been foretold within the first half hour.

It would be wrong to judge the acting as there was none, but in fairness the film did not need to be acted out. Rather than acting, basic motions were more than adequate given the plot, the location and the fact that it was pitch dark all of the time.

However, it did entertain in a fashion. Whether this was down to the predictability of the storyline or whether it did really entertain I'm not sure.

I'm glad I neither specifically paid to see at the movies nor paid for it at the local DVD hire shop (watched it on a TV movie channel). But why do I still have this weird notion that I quite enjoyed it??