Lighthouse (film)
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Lighthouse aka Dead of Night (USA Title) /Majakka (Finland)/Phare de l'angoisse, Le (France) | |
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Image:Lighthouse poster.JPG The brightest light hides your darkest fear |
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Directed by | Simon Hunter |
Produced by | Tim Dennison/Mark Leake/Chris Craib (executive producer)/Peta Inglesent (co-producer)/Sara Bingaman (associate producer)/Lesley McNeil (line producer) |
Written by | Graeme Scarfe |
Starring | James Purefoy, Rachel Shelley, Christopher Adamson, Don Warrington |
Music by | Debbie Wiseman |
Cinematography | Tony Imi |
Editing by | Paul Green |
Distributed by | Winchester Films/A-Pix Entertainment/British Screen Productions/Arts Council of England/Tungsten Pictures/Feature Film Company/M.I.B./Unapix Entertainment Productions/Pinewood Studios |
Release date(s) | 2000 |
Running time | 95 min |
Country | UK |
Language | English |
Lighthouse (Dead of Night in the USA) is a 2000 British horror film directed by (Simon Hunter). It was shot in primary Cornwall for the main locations (lighthouse, beaches rockshores) & Hastings/East Sussex. The film follows survivors of a shipwrecked being preyed on by an escaped psychotic convict who beheads his victims.
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[edit] Synopsis
A prison ship on its way to a remote island prison runs aground on rocks and sinks. Mixed survivors of cons and prison guards struggle ashore, only to discover to their horror that another survivor has made it ashore before them. Murderous psychotic, Leo Rook, who not only had a hand in the ship's sinking but has decapitated all but one of the island's lighthouse crew. Stranded, with no means of escape or call for help, the survivors must face a night of terror as they know that since they've learned that Leo survived going down with the ship he can't let any of them live and is hellbent on adding their severed heads to his collection.
[edit] Taglines
- The brightest light hides your darkest fear
[edit] Cast
Actor / Actress | Character |
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James Purefoy | Richard Spader |
Christopher Adamson | Leo Rook |
Rachel Shelley | Dr. Kirsty McCloud |
Don Warrington | Prison Officer Ian Goslet |
Paul Brooke | Captain Campbell |
Christopher Dunne(as Chris Dunne) | Chief Prison Officer O'Neil |
Pat Kelman | Spoons |
Bob Goody | Weevil |
Peter McCabe | Prison Officer Hopkins |
Norman Mitchell | Brownlow |
Howard Attfield | Sykes |
Jason Round | Spitfield |
Sarah Wateridge | McCloud's Mother |
Rod Woodruff | Guard |
[edit] See also
- Convict
- Psychosis
- Deviant
- Decapitation
- British films
- Hammer horror
- Horror films in the UK
- Psychological horror
- Horror-of-demonic
- Horror-of-personality
- Supernatural thriller films