"The Lodge" is one of those films that you think about from time to time; I certainly do. With Keough playing one of the most harrowing roles, the film serves as a chilling cautionary tale with eye-catching cinematography and strong writing.

| Original Score: A | Dec 5, 2024

With deserved confidence, this salutary tale takes its characters well beyond the point of no return.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 6, 2024

Franz and Fiala scale down Kubrick's more expansive vision, and the result offers its own kind of skin-crawling satisfaction.

| Sep 23, 2023

This atmospheric horror flick is elevated by its outstanding technical attributes, especially Thimios Bakatakis’ bizarre cinematography, as well as the claustrophobic production design. Impressive lead performance from Riley Keough.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 24, 2023

The Lodge is an agonizing and upsetting Christmas movie that people will have trouble watching, much less revisiting.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 23, 2023

One of the most effective chillers of the year. It presents images that will lodge themselves in your mind long after you leave the cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 11, 2022

Dark and dripping with stomach-turning, ample dread, and incredible lead performance, The Lodge isn’t a perfect movie, but damn does it not take up a heavy residence in your brain.

| Oct 28, 2022

The performances are rock-solid especially from Riley Keough who digs deep into her character’s damaged psyche without ever overplaying the inner-turmoil.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2022

The performances are spot on, especially Riley Keough who is fortunate to have her grandfather Elvis Presley's eyes, but more fortunate to have exceeded his acting abilities.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2022

The cumulative disorientation of The Lodge is a testament to the control exercised by Franz and Fiala.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 21, 2022

Compared with old Hammer horror films, there is more atmosphere, but the same or less character development. While not quite up to Hammer's LET ME IN or THE WOMAN IN BLACK, it has its moments.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 12, 2021

The Lodge may be mostly set in the great outdoors it is, nonetheless, a claustrophobic thriller that plays on dark psychological trauma.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2021

A one-way road trip to atmospheric terror.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 29, 2021

Irredeemable shite. "The Lodge" is a mean-spirited, ignorant assault on Cinema, and on its audience.

| Original Score: F | Jan 9, 2021

I could not wait for this movie to end, but then I am not a fan of this sort of movie anyway. It is a particularly bad viewing choice on a cold, snowy winter's night when I am feeling isolated by a deadly pandemic.

| Original Score: C | Jan 9, 2021

Perfectly paced, each film places viewers in purgatory along with the protagonists.

| Dec 30, 2020

A deliberately ambiguous and paranoid work, provoking the audience not only to speculate on each character's motivation but what precise kind of a thriller the film is.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 25, 2020

The most bone-chilling developments come not from the supernatural but from the human psyche, and the bleak ironies may stick with you long after watching.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 14, 2020

I feel like [the storyline's] completely original and completely well-thought-out.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 12, 2020

The Lodge suffers from an exceedingly (and excessively) deliberate midsection that pushes the slow-burn aesthetic well past its breaking point...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 13, 2020