With the release of his trailer for the forthcoming Werwulf two weeks ago, writer-director Robert Eggers re-entered the ever-simmering cinematic discourse. Though the master of gothic horror and grimy period pieces isn’t for everyone, most cinephiles with a penchant for the dark and eerie agree that Eggers hasn’t had any true missteps — from his 2015 debut The Witch to 2024’s award-nominated Nosferatu. Perhaps his most divisive film, however, was 2019’s The Lighthouse, the odd and fascinating two-hander starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as a pair of bickering New England lighthouse keepers. Though the film is grim and full of unsettling imagery, Pattinson has said he considers The Lighthouse “100 percent a comedy.” I’m not sure I’d personally agree with the percentage there, but it’s certainly full of enough wild lines and shocking moments that the audience gathered for its midnight screening this weekend at the Belcourt will get plenty of laughs in.
Midnight at the Belcourt
2102 Belcourt Ave.
