Lovely cinematography, tangibly creepy and very impressive production design and really solid effects. The score was great, too.
The only issue I had really was story-based, mainly the climax/denouement. The film successfully builds up a load of tension and atmosphere, moving between tense and terrifying, but once it gets to the lighthouse it just kind of gives up and shows you a load of weird stuff plus some twists that don't really mean anything; the Benedict Wong framing device ends up being pointless and the other scientists never get past lightly-sketched fodder. To be fair, though, the 'weird stuff' at the lighthouse is a pretty amazing sequence.
I'm glad I watched it, but I don't think I'll ever go back to it.
Rating: Good
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