The first trailer has been released for the upcoming psychological horror thriller The Lodge. I had a chance to see this movie at Sundance, and I loved it! This is one hell of a crazy-ass twisted movie that is seriously going to mess with your head.
I like movies that mess my head! They are the ones that really get to me, affect me, and scare the shit out of me. As I said in my review, the movie starts out as an unsettling nightmare but ends up being seriously jacked up.
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.
As I previously said, 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 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 this fall.