Robert Eggers had smarthouse authority in spades when he made The Witch and The Lighthouse in the mid to late teens.
But he gave up that ghost in order to brand himself as a re-maker of boilerplate franchise properties…gothic retreads that emphasized a certain oozy, grotesque, ultra-violent mythology -— The Northman, Nosferatu, Werwulf and (may God forbid and protect us) A Christmas Carol.
