SACRED BONES
‘Oh no’, was this reviewer’s initial reaction on sitting down to watch Robert Eggers’ psychological horror film The Lighthouse. ‘Not BWAAAHs’. Popularised by Hans Zimmer’s Inception score, it seemed as if every film released in recent years was obliged to include the synthesised fog horn effect to signal ‘serious stakes’. Mercifully, the trend appears to have died out. That is, until Mark Korven decided they’d make a good fit for a black-and-white thriller set on a desolate rock. The difference here, though, is that the BWAAAHs make for a perfect marriage to the visuals, and when mixed with a chaotic string section and deep, dramatic brass, they encapsulate perfectly the isolation of life at sea with Willem Dafoe.