Late One Night I Was Trimmin' the Glim

This one doesn't count, because we didn't watch it on Netflix: The Lighthouse. We watched it on Amazon Prime because Netflix DVD wasn't letting us watch it. In fact, right now we have 14 "Short Wait" movies at the top of our queue, and I expect 2-3 of the available movies at the top to switch over to Wait status on Monday, before they send us any. While Lighthouse was in that limbo, we decided to just stream it.

It stars Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as two lighthouse keepers on a solitary rock, just starting a two week stint. Pattinson is a taciturn young man with past as a lumberjack he doesn't like to talk about. Dafoe is an old salt who doesn't mind taking a drop of rum at dinner. That leads to their first cconflict: Pattinson won't drink to the complicated maritime toast Dafoe offers. He compromises by drinking water - which unfortunately tastes like shit, because something got into the cistern.

The other conflict is that Dafoe won't let Pattinson go up to the light, and Pattinson suspects that he is somehow communing with it, getting some form of illumination from the intense beam.

They survive the two weeks, but there's a storm on the day their relief is supposed to come, and they do not get picked up. At this point, Pattinson decides a little drink won't do any harm. And things go right off the rails.

This was made by David Eggers (The Witch), and it takes a similar historical approach. It was based on a real event, and filmed on black-and-white stock, giving it an eerie look. While being quite scary, it also has a lot of silly humor, which both Pattinson and Dafoe are quite good at. 

Also, it had me singing "The Eddystone Light" song most of the way through.