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Funded with Arts Council money, writer-director Simon Hunter's debut feature has been in development since 1994. The first scene was shot in July 1998; the film was in the can by 1999; then it sat on the shelf until it was released on video in the US as "Dead of Night" (2000). Two years later, it's finally been given a UK theatrical release.
Serial killer Leo Rook (Adamson) has a nasty habit of decapitating his victims and taking their heads as trophies. Now captured, he is being transported to Marshelsea island prison along with other convicts, their guards, and criminal psychologist Dr Kirsty McCloud (Shelley). When the ship sinks, Rook escapes to a nearby lighthouse island, kills the keepers, and lays in wait to pick off the remaining survivors from the wreck.
With a murky look that seems highly indebted to David Fincher's work on "Alien鲁", "Lighthouse" tries hard to make its set-up as menacing as possible. The dark craggy island, illuminated only by the intermittent flashes of the lighthouse beam, is the perfect environment for a stalk 'n' slash movie and as the killings start, including a tense sequence inside the lighthouse's toilet stall, things look promising.
Before you know it, though, the movie's run aground. With no proper explanation of why Rook's such a vicious slasher, some hammy acting from respected British thesps (Don Warrington and Paul Brooke in particular) and an unnecessary romance between convict Spader (Purefoy) and McCloud, "Lighthouse" really stretches the credibility quota.
After all, how seriously can you take a slasher movie where characters tell each other to drink coffee to stay awake. Isn't the prospect of being stalked and decapitated enough for them?
