The Lodge

Name: The Lodge
Released: 2020-2-7
Cast: Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh, Alicia Silverstone, Richard Armitage

The Lodge

R
1h 48m
2019

74%

age 16+

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A bone-chilling nightmare from the directors of Goodnight Mommy, The Lodge follows a family who retreat to their remote winter cabin over the holidays. When the father (Richard Armitage) is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan (IT's Jaeden Martell) and Mia (Lia McHugh) in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace (Riley Keough). Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

Director:

Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala

Producer:

Simon Oakes, Aliza James, Aaron Ryder

Writer:

Sergio Casci, Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala

Cast:

Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh, Alicia Silverstone, Richard Armitage

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

74%

Critics Consensus: Led by an impressive Riley Keough performance, The Lodge should prove a suitably unsettling destination for fans of darkly atmospheric horror.

Reviews

Mark Leeper's Reviews

Mark R. Leeper

Compared with old Hammer horror films, there is more atmosphere, but the same or less character development. While not quite up to Hammer's LET ME IN or THE WOMAN IN BLACK, it has its moments.

February 12, 2021

FULL REVIEW

Richard Crouse

The Lodge may be mostly set in the great outdoors it is, nonetheless, a claustrophobic thriller that plays on dark psychological trauma.

A one-way road trip to atmospheric terror.

Irredeemable shite. "The Lodge" is a mean-spirited, ignorant assault on Cinema, and on its audience.

I could not wait for this movie to end, but then I am not a fan of this sort of movie anyway. It is a particularly bad viewing choice on a cold, snowy winter's night when I am feeling isolated by a deadly pandemic.

January 9, 2021

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 16+

Common Sense Says

Clever, ice-cold, chilling horror movie with kids in peril.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that The Lodge is a horror/thriller movie about sinister things happening to two kids and their soon-to-be-stepmother while they're stuck in a remote, snowbound lodge. Violence includes guns and shooting, characters dying/dead bodies shown (including a frozen dog), blood spatters/trails, children in peril, and other unsettling, spooky imagery. A woman's bare breasts are seen after she gets out of the shower, and her naked body is somewhat visible through the shower's opaque door. Two people kiss and giggle together in bed. Language includes a few uses of "f--k" (or "f---ing"), and a character seems to depend on prescription pills. Characters drink wine in several scenes; one drinks just before dying via suicide. Another scene suggests that a character may be nursing a hangover. The movie's setup isn't very smart, but the story is well told, and the film is moody and icily paced; it should appeal to sophisticated horror hounds.