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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The brightest light hides your darkest fear
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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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.

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  • The brightest light hides your darkest fear

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Actor / Actress Character
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

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