Haunting New Trailer for the Disturbing Horror Thriller THE LODGE
We’ve got a new trailer to share with you for the messed up psychological horror-thriller The Lodge. I thought this was a great horror movie when I first saw it at Sundance last year. The film was quite disturbing, and one of the things I enjoyed most about it was the unexpected twists and turns in the story and how it messes with your head.
As I said in my review, “One of the things that I loved most about this film is that it got you believing that you know where the story is going. It even plays on those ideas! It totally messes with the audience and then all of a sudden something snaps in the film and the direction changes and ends up going to a place of darkness that you aren’t expecting. It was really quite surprising.”
The movie isn’t for everyone, but I think horror fans are really going to dig it. Here’s the synopsis that was shared:
Devoted to their devastated mother, siblings Aidan and Mia resent Grace, the younger woman their newly separated father plans to marry. They flatly reject Grace’s attempts to bond, and they dig up dirt on her tragic past—but soon they find themselves trapped with her, snowed in in a remote holiday village after their dad heads back to the city for work. Just as relations begin to thaw, strange and frightening events threaten to unearth psychological demons from Grace’s strictly religious childhood.
An unblinking study of human frailty, The Lodge offers a haunting exploration of the traumatic aftershocks of religious devotion while positing that some evils just don’t die.
The movie was directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, and they created something quite disturbing and claustrophobic. The film stars Richard Armitage (The Hobbit) as the father, Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) as his ex-wife, Riley Keough (Mad Max) as Grace, and Jaeden Martell (It) and Lia McHug as the two siblings.
The Lodge is set to be released on February 7th. Check out the trailer and let us know if this is a film you’ll be catching.