Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

patrick-green There was a movie. With a lighthouse. A serial killer is loose and the audience is agonising, and not because the film is terrifying. The film is terrifyingly bad with awful characters, awful acting and an awful end. The serial killer was the ugliest bastard I'd ever seen, and he does not utter a word throughout the movie!!!!The whole film has a strange surrealistic atmosphere, as if the actors had been teleported into a parallel bad movie dimension. The "traumatic scenes" of the movie were more like comedy than anything else, like some awesomely bad joke told by my sister. By watching this movie I experienced no feeling of being entertained at all, it is definitely good for the trashcan.

KHayes666 No originality! The plot of the movie is this. A criminal psychiatrist, a sick maniac and a bunch of prisoners are on board a boat. The maniac named Leo Rook escapes his cell and proceeds to sink the ship. The prisoners, ship crew and hot psych girl get to shore and are trapped on an island with Rook. The prisoners, rather than side with the maniac, devise a plan to kill him.The movie is your standard "bad guy picks off good guys one by one until the hero and the girl kill him in the end" so originality isn't a factor.The cast itself is wonderful with a lot of unknowns and you get into them, so when they die you actually go "awww" instead of "yawn".The highlight of the movie is when the fat prisoner calls Leo Rook a "sick f*ck!"The plot is unoriginal but the cast and the setting are decent.5 out of 10

Zombified_660 It has to be said at times our British film industry seems to only cater for lovers of middle-class romcom action. However, there's a nice undercurrent of vicious, tense horror movies with a little touch of something different coming out of the UK as well. I've been thrilled by My Little Eye and Creep this year, and just as I thought the year was drawing to a close, I watched this little gem.I love the slasher sub-genre, so it's nice to see some of my fellow countrymen getting in on the game. Lighthouse is quite similar to 80s classic Maniac Cop, in that you see Leo Rook constantly but not in ways that reveal anything of him until the end. He's a nasty fella as well, decapitating all and sundry and collecting their heads in a boat. So, top marks on creating a memorable villain.One of the hurdles slashers normally fall at is that they're now too restrained. Scream made it okay to be clever as opposed to scary, and while that's okay, some recent movies have felt more like an x-rated version of Lizzie Macguire than a slasher. Not a problem here, Lighthouse is in possession of tension you could cut with a knife (no pun intended) and loaded with excruciatingly long, nerve-wracking and drawn out chases, often finishing them with sequences of shocking violence.It's odd that the movie that most encapsulates what the slasher sub-genre is missing is British, given our history of faintly operatic vampire/devil worship movies, but it's the truth. Hopefully our native directors will continue this tack of releasing taut, nightmarish horror thrillers and I'll no longer have to put up with the slew of US teen-horrors and overblown SFX pieces coming from the other side of the pond.

Hagard1956 This movie is a lot like the movies High Tension, and Creep. It revolves around a lighthouse with a killer on the loose, knocking off every few minutes one more casualty. Although the story is nothing original, the writing, and directing are top-notch and worthy. The movie looks, and feels like a high-budget, blockbuster movie. From my Country of Origin, this movie has a very thrilling and is one of the best slasher films I have ever seen.This is the first lighthouse type movie I have ever seen, and I think it will remain the best for a while (in my perspective!).For the overall work and amazing atmosphere, I give this movie a cheering 9/10.