The cinematography is stunning, the acting stellar, but in the end, this film is a very unpleasant story about two hard to like human beings who are nasty to each other as they fall into madness at an isolated lighthouse, and thus, it left me cold. I'm not sure what the point of this film was. I realize it was horror, but I found no inspiring message to cull here, and the stunning cinematography and talented acting can only carry you so far. By 2/3rds of the way through when Pattinson engages in a wholly unnecessary on screen masturbation scene, I was bored and wondering why I bothered. Clearly not for everyone.