The threat actually has personality and generated creepiness. Parts are creepy and there is are a few fun set pieces. The characters were not as annoying as feared and don't make as many frustrating and illogical decision making like some films seen recently did (this is always also including bigger budget films that were box office successes if variable critically). 'Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper' wisely plays it straight with a little tongue-in-cheek going on and appreciated and admired the more ambitious storytelling when the action properly kicked in. The music is both quirky and ominous and the direction when the film gets going is assured. Starting with the good things, Vernon Wells is great and generally the main performers were better than average. And it actually was, not perfect and the potential is not completely lived up to but in no way is it wasted. But I went with my gut instinct and saw 'Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper' anyway because it did seem like it would be one of my better recent low-budget viewings. Most of my recent low-budget viewings with low rating and mediocre to terrible reviews have been as bad and in some cases even worse. Based on an unfinished short story, 'Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper' intrigued me with a great concept and the reviews here were nowhere near as bad as feared.Įspecially when the rating was very low, which from personal experience recently has not been a good sign. Love Edgar Allan Poe, from reading his timeless stories and the Roger Corman and Vincent Price films where the best of them were creepy and entertaining. Reviewed by TheLittleSongbird 6 / 10 The secret of the lighthouse What are the secrets of Walsh, Nora and the lighthouse? During the night, the young man blows out the candle and sees spectral creatures. When he returns to the lighthouse, Nora explains that Walsh is crazy and she cannot go there.
He learns that her name is Nora and they fall in love with each other.
He goes to the woods in the morning and meets the woman again. Last but not the least, he warns that he shall always keep a light burning during the night. The only means of transportation to San Francisco is a ferry that will arrive two weeks later. He wakes up with amnesia in a lighthouse and the keeper Walsh explains that they are isolated in a remote peninsula where nobody can leave. While climbing a cliff, he falls and faints. A castaway awakes on a beach with wounded forehead and sees a woman leaving the place.