The effects are a mix of CGI and practical, but never feel cheap. When you want to use them in your film and digitally produced scores sound silly sometimes, Lighthouse Keeper greatly benefits from the film’s score. The music has a nice old school horror feel, even though songs have copyrights To elaborate on some of those features would be to spoil Lighthouse Keeper, which will not be done here. The overall atmosphere, style, and look are very reminiscent of American International Pictures’ and Roger Corma’s early ’60s early Edgar Allan Poe adaptation collaborations, There are some elements throughout the film, such as the reading of his poem Lenore, the usage of another Poe stories’ leading character’s name, and structural issues involving the Lighthouse Keeper’s home that mirror the collage of Poe story information that AIP and Corman use to bring together in said films. This film can be described as a clash between the Boris Karloff/Jack Nicholson lead The Terror and the original John Carpenter masterpiece The Fog, as it permeates most of, if not the whole film. This transitions to true beginning of Lighthouse Keeper, and visual telling of the film’s synopsis, with a young man washed up on the shore of a peninsula that he seems to have no idea how or why he is there. An unknown, and only briefly seen, evil seems to be stalking the old fisherman in his dark and dreary home. The music, while not haunting in and of itself, lends itself and adapts to feeling far more eerie in the setting it is played in. An old man with a stereotypical fisherman look is sitting and drunkenly listening to an old phonograph in the first scene. More specifically, it is reminiscent of The Fog. Lighthouse Keeper starts off like a lot like a John Carpenter film. For those of you, Edgar Allan Poe fan or not, unwilling to take the plunge blindly, here is a review from this writer’s advanced screening. While it might be hard to track down, it is suppose to be available on DVD in April. Lighthouse Keeper is the newest Edgar Allan Poe adaptation to hit the…Poe adaptation market, and it has relatively flown under the radar thus far.
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