Overview
Genre: Horror
Language: English
Country of Origin: UK
Production Status: Completed
Running Time: 95 minutes
Year of Production: 2000
Synopsis
A disparate group of prisoners are being transported by ship to a remote island prison. Among them is mass killer Leo Rook who audaciously escapes during a fierce storm and flees to a lighthouse on an isolated rocky outcrop. When the ship hits rocks and sinks, a bedraggled bunch of survivors struggles ashore to the apparently deserted lighthouse. Only when they discover the decapitated corpses of the lighthouse keepers do they realise, with mounting horror, that the psychopathic Rook is at large, and hunting them. One by one the death toll mounts as the terrified party desperately attempts to stay alive until daybreak. Lighthouse is a dark, claustrophobic throwback to the classic stalk-and-slash horrors of the 1980s, combining visceral thrills and genuine chills with a unique, creepy location.
Cast + Crew
Director: Simon Hunter
Producer: Mark Leake, Tim Dennison
Main Cast: James Purefoy (Resident Evil, A Knight’s Tale), Rachel Shelley(The Bone Snatcher), Paul Brooke Bridget Jones’s Diary, Star Wars VI – Return of the Jedi), Christopher Adamson (The Fifth Element).
Distributors
US Distributor: Unapix Entertainment Inc.
Festivals
British Independent Film Awards, 1999. Nominated for Best Achievement in Production and Best Newcomer. Cinenygma – Luxembourg International Film Festival, 2000. Simon Hunter won Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver Fantafestival, 2000. Simon Hunter won Special Jury Prize.
Fantasporto, 2001. Simon Hunter nominated for Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Gold
Film credits are not contractual
