The Lodge Movie Review: An Underrated Gem
Discussing The Lodge without spoilers is incredibly difficult, but this review will be completely spoiler free. The basic premise of the horror movie is simple, but admittedly a little strange: two children are forced to spend the holidays with their father's girlfriend in the titular lodge during a terrible blizzard. All three of them are unhappy with an arrangement which sounds disastrous from the start, yet the girlfriend and father decide it's simply what they should do. So, we join Riley Keough in her babysitting adventure isolated in a cabin. My biggest critique is that the writers should have decided on stronger reasoning for Keough to wind up stuck with the two children in the middle of nowhere. Perhaps it could have been a situation more like The Shining and less along the lines of "your dad said this is a good idea, so it's clearly a good idea." Silly set-up aside, The Lodge is decent. The film longs to discuss complex subjects like religious abuse, ...