anuradha jaishankar

A thoroughly compelling watch, refreshing to the horror genre where in recent years all complexity has been sucked out, leaving us with bland and cheap tricks that get our heart rates high with nothing left to engage the mind. While most recent horror films had been illogically justified by religion, The Lodge takes a more passive and skeptical view of the same and brings out the predominance of guilt surrounding the concept of god, more as a form of control rather than helping believers of god. It also dealt with broken family, unlike most films which are set in a perfect family with some vague doom descending upon this fairy tale shabbily crafting a tepid "horror" story. The movies engagement with some sophisticated philosophical questions, enquiring the nature of reality distinguishing life and death would leave viewers pondering. the movie has worked its way very smartly without reinventing the wheel of the horror genre, using known tropes while showing them in an unthreatening and unpredictably unexceptional and almost detached way, leaving you wondering what the REAL horror is, ultimately leaving you with the dreadful conclusion of your own self being your worst horror. The sound track is also minimal, a reflection of the rational take of the film on the horror theme by the makers. It’s visually very compelling with great technical detail given to the aesthetic layout and good editing. It’s a must watch for anyone in with disbelief new age horror.