THE LODGE

I was excited going into this film as I had previously seen and heard good things about it. I’m not quite sure we saw the same movie. THE LODGE has elements of THE SHINING and HEREDITARY but tried too hard to be smart. A lot of themes are touched upon such as family, isolation, nature, childhood trauma. However, religion is the biggest one and it’s at first done in a subtle way but by the end of the film, it becomes heavy handed. It’s unfortunate because the film had some potential. A slow burn so I was willing to give it some time to cash in but by around the halfway to three quarters point of the film, it got snowed in in my eyes. 4.5/10