Le phare de l'angoisse

With Lighthouse at last we see a lottery funded co production that is trying to appeal to a mass market. Hunter has with this film managed to demonstrate that he is adept at handling action and tension while keeping the chit chat to a minimum. Some of the performances are below par but with the money he had £i.5 million we can see where Hunter has put it and it is obviously not on the performers. Notable exceptions being Don Warrington and Paul Brooke. Where the money has gone is on the set peices which are well planned and show sadistic delight in the subject matter. The production design is superb although perhaps let down by some indiffrerent cinematography in places. The film brings nothing new to the genre but Hunter does a good job with his first film. Perhaps the saddest aspect to all this is that it is inevitable that Hunter will cross the pond and work within the Hollywood system. A good watch

I bought this movie at my local video store the other day for the whooping sum of 94 cents. I figured I could`nt lose. About 10 minutes in I was thinking that I had thrown away 94 cents and was about to eject it from the VCR and throw it in the trash. However, it began to show some promise in the thrills and suspense area so I continued to watch and ended up very pleased to add this film to my collection. Even though there is nothing original about this movie (psycho killer stalks people on an island with large knife) it is well made and well acted by a cast of unknowns. At times the suspense is riveting. I would recommend this movie for at least a one time watch.

Visually it looked great, but it fell into madman hacks people to death in unimaginative ways with no suspense or caring for characters crap video territory very quickly. It's all been done before and a million times better in loads of other straight to video slasher shockers. Tony Imi was too good for them!

More like outhouse as it's got the same contents. This is probably one of the worst horror films I've ever seen, and I've watched some utter drivel in my time!

A ship flounders onto a lighthouse island with it's crew of convicts and wardens and a crazed killer attempts to murder them all....and... er....that's it. Cue lots of gore and screaming and running about. This could have been so much better but it's totally spoilt by the overwrought acting by people more used to the histrionics of British soap operas.You can almost see the angst in every delivered line of dialogue from this bunch of 'lighthouse luvvies.' Drama workshop and improv style makes for a pretentious story that plays like a student film.Even the swearing is strictly from RADA drama school, i.e: 'farking.' It pains me to admit it but we Brits just can't seem to make a decent horror film anymore,at least not a straight slasher genre type which this fails so dismally at. 'Darkness Falls' was a pretty bad lighthouse based horror but it's a classic compared to this cliché ridden overblown mess.

I don't why but I got this for 50p the another day, so what the hell give a watch, thinking it haunted Light house.

It turns out it was more of slasher movie,

Well I don't know to really make out of this, it didn't hate but I didn't love either, i thougth it flowed,

There were some bloody deaths in this movie but I didn't find him scary at all but I did enjoy those very tense scenes were some were hiding from him.

If you may seem a little funny but the whole way to predicable, you know how the movie was going to end.

4 out of 10