I don't why but I got this for 50p the another day, so what the hell give a watch, thinking it haunted Light house. It turns out it was more of slasher movie, Well I don't know to really make out of this, it didn't hate but I didn't love either, i thougth it flowed, There were some bloody deaths in this movie but I didn't find him scary at all but I did enjoy those very tense scenes were some were hiding from him. If you may seem a little funny but the whole way to predicable, you know how the movie was going to end. 4 out of 10

More like outhouse as it's got the same contents. This is probably one of the worst horror films I've ever seen, and I've watched some utter drivel in my time!A ship flounders onto a lighthouse island with it's crew of convicts and wardens and a crazed killer attempts to murder them all....and... er....that's it. Cue lots of gore and screaming and running about. This could have been so much better but it's totally spoilt by the overwrought acting by people more used to the histrionics of British soap operas.You can almost see the angst in every delivered line of dialogue from this bunch of 'lighthouse luvvies.' Drama workshop and improv style makes for a pretentious story that plays like a student film.Even the swearing is strictly from RADA drama school, i.e: 'farking.' It pains me to admit it but we Brits just can't seem to make a decent horror film anymore,at least not a straight slasher genre type which this fails so dismally at. 'Darkness Falls' was a pretty bad lighthouse based horror but it's a classic compared to this cliché ridden overblown mess.

No originality! The plot of the movie is this. A criminal psychiatrist, a sick maniac and a bunch of prisoners are on board a boat. The maniac named Leo Rook escapes his cell and proceeds to sink the ship. The prisoners, ship crew and hot psych girl get to shore and are trapped on an island with Rook. The prisoners, rather than side with the maniac, devise a plan to kill him.The movie is your standard "bad guy picks off good guys one by one until the hero and the girl kill him in the end" so originality isn't a factor.The cast itself is wonderful with a lot of unknowns and you get into them, so when they die you actually go "awww" instead of "yawn".The highlight of the movie is when the fat prisoner calls Leo Rook a "sick f*ck!"The plot is unoriginal but the cast and the setting are decent.5 out of 10

It has to be said at times our British film industry seems to only cater for lovers of middle-class romcom action. However, there's a nice undercurrent of vicious, tense horror movies with a little touch of something different coming out of the UK as well. I've been thrilled by My Little Eye and Creep this year, and just as I thought the year was drawing to a close, I watched this little gem.I love the slasher sub-genre, so it's nice to see some of my fellow countrymen getting in on the game. Lighthouse is quite similar to 80s classic Maniac Cop, in that you see Leo Rook constantly but not in ways that reveal anything of him until the end. He's a nasty fella as well, decapitating all and sundry and collecting their heads in a boat. So, top marks on creating a memorable villain.One of the hurdles slashers normally fall at is that they're now too restrained. Scream made it okay to be clever as opposed to scary, and while that's okay, some recent movies have felt more like an x-rated version of Lizzie Macguire than a slasher. Not a problem here, Lighthouse is in possession of tension you could cut with a knife (no pun intended) and loaded with excruciatingly long, nerve-wracking and drawn out chases, often finishing them with sequences of shocking violence.It's odd that the movie that most encapsulates what the slasher sub-genre is missing is British, given our history of faintly operatic vampire/devil worship movies, but it's the truth. Hopefully our native directors will continue this tack of releasing taut, nightmarish horror thrillers and I'll no longer have to put up with the slew of US teen-horrors and overblown SFX pieces coming from the other side of the pond.