Composer · 1953

Mark Korven

2: briefs
13:00: average
26 min: in total

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The Witch

Robert Eggers · 2015

Robert Eggers’s 2015 debut is a meticulously researched Puritan folktale set in 1630s New England. After a family is banished and settles near a forbidding forest, the disappearance of their infant son triggers theological panic, mutual suspicion and spiritual unraveling. Shot in natural light with Early Modern English dialogue, period-accurate costumes and a dissonant, instrumentally unconventional score, the film builds dread through restraint, silence and escalating ambiguity — culminating not in terror, but in a chilling, ecstatic surrender.

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The Lighthouse

Robert Eggers · 2019

Robert Eggers’ 2019 black-and-white horror follows two lighthouse keepers—Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson—stranded together in isolation, their relationship fracturing under storm, duty, and buried desire. Shot in a near-square 1.19:1 aspect ratio on 35 mm film with custom optical filters, it uses period-accurate dialect, oppressive sound design, and unrelenting close-ups to render descent as sensory inevitability. Its themes orbit masculinity, hierarchy, myth, and the sea as unconscious force.