- Lighthouse (film)
Infobox Film
name = Lighthouse aka Dead of Night (USA Title) /Majakka (Finland)/Phare de l'angoisse, Le (France)
caption = The brightest light hides your darkest fear
director =Simon Hunter
producer =Tim Dennison /Mark Leake /Chris Craib (executive producer )/Peta Inglesent (co-producer )/Sara Bingaman (associate producer )/Lesley McNeil (line producer )
writer =Graeme Scarfe
starring =James Purefoy ,Rachel Shelley ,Christopher Adamson ,Don Warrington
music = Debbie Wiseman
cinematography =Tony Imi
editing = Paul Green
distributor =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
released = 2000
runtime = 95 min
country =UK
language = English"Lighthouse" (Dead of Night in the
USA ) is a2000 Britishhorror film directed by (Simon Hunter ). It was shot in primaryCornwall 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.ynopsis
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.
Taglines
*The brightest light hides your darkest fear
Cast
ee also
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Convict
*Psychosis
*Deviant
*Decapitation
*British films
*Hammer horror
*Horror films in the UK
*Psychological horror
*Horror-of-demonic
*Horror-of-personality
*Supernatural thriller films The original writer of LIGHTHOUSE - and now given a STORY credit - is British writer, Graeme Scarfe who has gone on to write other screenplays SEAGULLS ON SPEED, GAMBIT, MARTA'S VINEYARD and the screen adaptation of Richard Hayden's novel THE INFLUENCING ENGINE. He is contacted via The Tennyson Agency, London, UK.External links
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