Lighthouse [2000]

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1999
Running Times: 95 mins
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound: Dolby Digital

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Arts Council of England / British Screen / Tungsten Pictures / Winchester Films
Executive Producer: Chris Craib
Producers: Tim Dennison, Mark Leake
Co-Producer: Peta Inglesent
Line Producer: Lesley McNeil
Associate Producer: Sara Bingaman

SCRIPT
Script: Simon Hunter
Story: Graeme Scarfe

DIRECTION
Director: Simon Hunter
2nd Unit Director: Jim Solan
1st Assistant Director: Peter Cotton
2nd Assistant Director: Dee Hellier
3rd Assistant Director: Jonathan Scott
2nd Unit Assistant Directors: George Arton, Will Edridge, Marcia Gay, Kieren O'Brien, Eugenio Pérez

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Tony Imi

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Paul Green
1st Assistant Editor: Iain Erskine

MUSIC
Music: Debbie Wiseman

SOUND
Sound Designers: Kevin Brazier, Blair Jollands

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Designer: Clare Le Vesconte
Costume Designer: Linda Alderson

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Prosthetic Effects Designer: Paul Hyett

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Supervisor: Alan Whibley
Special Effects Floor Supervisor: Alex Gunn
Special Effects Senior Technician: Harry Bryce
Special Effects Technicians: David McGeary, Doug McCarthy, Jody Taylor, Joe Geday, Nick Smith, Phil Ashton

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: The Computer Film Company
Visual Effects Supervisor: Roy Field
Effects Compositor: Gavin Toomey
Digital Effects Supervisor: Paddy Eason
Digital Compositor: Adrian De Wet

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Simon Bowles
Art Director: Christian Huband

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Renee Glynne

LOCATIONS
Locations: Cornwall, England, UK; Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Rod Woodruff

CAST
James Purefoy [Richard Spader]
Rachel Shelley [Dr Kirsty McCloud]
Christopher Adamson [Leo Rook]
Paul Brooke [Captain Campbell]
Don Warrington [Prison Officer Ian Goslet]
Chris Dunne [Chief Prison Officer O'Neil]
Bob Goody [Weevil]
Pat Kelman [Spoons]
Peter McCabe [Prison Officer Hopkins]
Norman Mitchell [Brownlow]
Howard Attfield [Sykes]
Jason Round [Spitfield]
Stuart Callaghan [ship's mate]
Yolande Davis [young prison officer]
Sarah Wateridge [McCloud's mother]
Elizabeth Homewood [young McCloud]
Kenny Ingram, Neil Johnson, John Kearns, Rod Woodruff [guards]
Jake West [voice on radio]

SUMMARY

A ship transporting prisoners is shipwrecked and the survivors seek shelter on a remote, forbidding island. But one of them is a psychotic serial killer and when the survivors hide out in a lighthouse the killer starts stalking them one by one.

AVAILABILITY

France
Theatrical Distributors: CCI

Germany
Theatrical Distributors: M.I.B.

UK
Theatrical Distributors: Feature Film Company / Winchester Film Distribution

USA
Theatrical Distributors: A-Pix Entertainment Inc

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

France
Rating: -12

Germany
Rating: 18

South Korea
Rating: 18

UK
Rating: 15

USA
Rating: R [for strong horror violence / gore and some language]

AWARDS

1999
British Independent Film Awards, UK
Best Achievement in Production - nominated
Best Newcomer [Simon Bowles] - nominated

2000
Cinénygma - Luxembourg International Film Festival, Luxembourg
Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver [Simon Hunter] - winner

2001
Fantasporto, Portugal
Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Gold [Simon Hunter] - nominated

TIMELINE

2000
February
4: USA - theatrical release

August
9: France - theatrical release
25: UK - shown at Frightfest, London

2001
February
24: Kuwait - theatrical release

2002
July
19: UK - theatrical release

POSTER TAGS

The brightest light hides your darkest fear

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Dead of Night - US video title
Majakka - Finnish title
Le phare de l'angoisse - French title

KEYWORDS

decapitations, helicopters, islands, lighthouses, lightning, prisoners, serial killers, severed heads, shipwrecks, slasher, storms, swords

Last Updated: 6 March, 2007