The Lodge

2019

Action / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

89
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 51% · 184 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 51% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 64058 64.1K

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Plot summary

When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

Director

Severin Fiala Photo
Severin Fiala

Top cast

Jaeden Lieberher Photo
Jaeden Lieberher as Aidan
Riley Keough Photo
Riley Keough as Grace
Richard Armitage Photo
Richard Armitage as Richard
Alicia Silverstone Photo
Alicia Silverstone as Laura
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
994.11 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 17
2 GB
1920*1040
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 70

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by E Canuck 6 / 10

Strong beginning gets progressively less believable

I've given this a six because we were both effectively creeped out and very impressed with cinematography and the film's immediacy for the front half. The key plot point of why the Dad left his kids in the situation he did wasn't credible but I was willing to go with the premise...up to a point.I lost confidence in the film's direction when the "mystery" began to be explained. It felt as though the writers decided there HAD to be a violent resolution to the story (and somewhat of a nod to the morbid religiosity that had been pointed to.)We were a little disgusted with a pat ending after such early promise of something different. I also get tired of films where someone takes it out on an innocent animal to create fear and foreshadow things are going to get really bad for the humans.
Reviewed by JICNZ 7 / 10

Improves on Second Watch

I'll get the major cons out of the way first. This movie suffers from the usual problem Hollywood film always seem to have -- no money to afford electricity. Most of the movie is shot entirely in the dark, so goodness knows what happened in those scenes. Also, one or two key bits of dialogue that explain what's really happening are totally lost to mumbling.However, overall, this film really did improve on second watching. Once you know what the story is, you spot all sorts of little bits of detail that make the whole thing make sense. But more than this, my empathy with Grace, the protagonist and victim, grew exponentially during this second watch. She comes over as an almost wholly sympathetic character. Little things like the carefully wrapped presents she brings and hides make her rather loveable. Her love for her dog and what he represents to her is very moving. She's a very damaged person, but unfortunately for her, she gets entangled with other very damaged people and hell hath no wrath like grieving children.There's only one jump scare in this movie, but it's a good one. The rest of the film is a more slow psychological horror about the power of grief and early childhood trauma. And human fragility.I highly recommend this to anyone who likes their horror thought-provoking and real rather than shock-horror jump scares. This clearly borrows from Hereditary: almost shamelessly copies much of the atmostphere of that film with the dark house, the dolls' house, the cult, the dolls, the camera work inside the dolls' house distorting our perceptions.Pretty good movie with strong performances all round.
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