The Lodge (2019) Movie Review

So where do I even begin on this one. This was like dark song meets escape from a cult meets sixth sense, and I would say more, but I don’t really want to give anything away.

The setting of the entire movie is very interesting, very creepy – keeps you on edge pretty much the whole time. That, and there’s something really intriguing about movies that deal (or seem to deal) with metaphysics, but maybe that’s just me. It just always makes me think that it’s all real, or could be real, we just haven’t been doing it right.

To paraphrase Ernest Hemingway, “There’s no one thing that’s true. It’s all true.”

The Lodge: The Premise

Moving on, I’ll share the basic premise of the movie without giving away any key plot points. I hope. The movie opens with a husband telling his wife that he’s leaving her for another girl. The wife then proceeds to shoot herself in the head.

Now the dad is a bit of an asshole, and after his kids just had to deal with their mom’s suicide, he forces them to spend time with his new bride to be, who is probably young enough to be their sister. I mean, sure, people are allowed to get divorced and remarried, but its pretty cruel to drag your kids into the mess just months after the death of their mother.

Anyway, so he thinks they should all get to know each other better and plans a weekend of just the kids hanging out with his new girlfriend at (wait for it) a cabin in the woods! Of course! I mean—what better place?

Okay, to be fair, it’s not a cabin in the woods, but really in the middle of some snowy wilderness.
Oh yes, aside from dumping them there with his new lover, I forgot to mention that she is mentally unstable, and is one of his ex-patients (he’s a shrink), so he pretty much knows that she’s not right in the head.

Shortly after being left there, they get snowed in and as is to be expected, all sorts of strange occurrences occur. Normally, I wouldn’t like to repeat the same word twice in a row, but it seemed right.

The Lodge: The Review

This movie is certainly worth the watch, and for once, actually lived up to the hype that was going around on social media. I stopped expecting much from social media reviews, but this one was certainly worth my time.

It’s a slow burn, but not too slow that you lose interest, and just enough plot twists to keep you on edge.

Acting wise, I'm always impressed by kid actors, and the 2 in this movie are amazing, but particularly the little girl.

Final Rating: 8/10

Distributor: Neon
Production Company: Filmnation Entertainment, Hammer Films
Director r: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
Cast: Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh, Richard Armitage, Alicia Silverstone
Producers: Simon Oakes, Aliza James, Aaron Ryder
Music: Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans