EDGAR ALLEN POE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER MOVIE

ItвЂ™s just atrocious, adding nothing to the scenes and pulls the viewer out instantly. Just for shits and giggles.вЂ™ The first time wasnвЂ™t a mistake. The same bloody CGI butterfly loop turns up again at the end of the film, so itвЂ™s evident that someone actually sat there in the editing booth and said something along the lines of, вЂthatвЂ™s a bloody good butterfly, that is. It looks so fake itвЂ™s on par with Birdemic. Either way, the scene plays out fine until an exceedingly rubbish CGI butterfly zig-zags across the screen with all the grace of a coked up two year old attempting the worldвЂ™s worst etch-a-sketch whilst simultaneously competing in a limbo tournament. Actual footage of butterflies has been filmed, or simply taken from stock footage. and Nora are kissing below a kaleidoscope of butterflies.

EDGAR ALLEN POE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER MOVIE

Once the stinger finally does come, youвЂ™ll either roll your eyes and let out a heavy sigh, or raise your eyebrows and go, вЂhuh, didnвЂ™t see that coming.вЂ™ Either way, the astoundingly bad CGI and some ropey cinematography lets the movie down on all fronts.

ItвЂ™s a shame as the story itself is quite intriguing, as it does genuinely leave you second guessing what the mystery of The Lighthouse is. But the poor make-up effects and CGI on display will sadly make you cringe. If the build-up in the first half is slightly flat, the tempo shifts during the third act, where it spins wobbly like a drunk cha-cha dancer into a zombie-ghost story. It also feels very reminiscent of John CarpenterвЂ™s The Fog (1980), with Vernon WellвЂ™s Lighthouse Keeper looking like the stereotypical fisherman. Cooper may have been trying to emulate retro horror films such as The TerrorВ (1963) or House of UsherВ (1960), and with such a haunting and beautiful vista (the howling of the wind, the crashing of the waves on the rocks) on offer, it seems like a wasted opportunity as thereвЂ™s little in the way of tension here. What are the secrets of Walsh, Nora and the lighthouse? An unknown evil spectre seems to be stalking the old Lighthouse Keeper, and although the location exists in a sort of time vacuum, it can be argued that this is set in the early 1900вЂ™s.ДЄ couple of things will become very evident when you start watching Edgar Allan PoeвЂ™s Lighthouse Keeper.В One of the main issues to be found is the filmвЂ™s utterly bland and boring pace, which drains the viewerвЂ™s investment and attention span very quickly. blows out the candle and sees spectral creatures. As a romance starts to blossom between the two, she explains that Walsh is crazy so she cannot go near the house. goes to the woods in the morning and meets Nora again. He informs the recent addition to the island that the next ferry is in two weeks, and that вЂњThe light was a warning, not an invitation.вЂќ He also tells him to keep a candle on at all times. He awakens in the house, taken in by an enigmatic and elusive woman named Nora (Rachel Riley.) She disappears, leaving the amnesic man (later calling himself J.P.) to come across an old, acrimonious lighthouse keeper called Walsh (played by Vernon Wells.) HeвЂ™s a cantankerous old bastard, drinking heavily and murmuring ominous quotes (in one scene uttering PoeвЂ™s LenoreВ across a dinner table) to J.P. While attempting to scale the cliffs to reach the home, the man loses grip and falls to the shoreline, losing consciousness.

He spots a large, white house perched atop the cliffs overlooking the sea, with a lighthouse affixed next to it. Edgar Allan PoeвЂ™s Lighthouse KeeperВ is the story of a man (Matt OвЂ™Neill) that finds himself shipwrecked on a secluded peninsula, ( heвЂ™s trying to paddle to San Francisco in a tiny rowboat?)В only to awaken on the shore and realise that he has no clue who he is. Because the work was never finished (Poe died on October 7 th, 1849, allegedly from an animal bite/scratch that resulted in the writer contracting rabies which then went untreated and caused his death) this tantalising last novella/novel could be interpreted in many different ways on screen.Д¬ooper attempts to create a sense of isolation and loneliness in an unsettling way, but doesnвЂ™t quite seize the essence of PoeвЂ™s words and the whole thing isВ permeated by a production value that is less than mediocre. Lovecraft, the terrifying tales of Edgar Allan Poe have been scaring the bejesus out of people for many years вЂ“ and with these authors in mind, Benjamin Cooper has taken PoeвЂ™s last recorded written work from May to August 1849, The Light HouseВ and has adapted the fragmentary sum of words into a feature length film.

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