The Lodge (2020) on Netflix
Grace Marshall spends Christmas at a remote Massachusetts lodge with her fiancé Richard Hall and his two children. Richard is called away, a blizzard seals them in, and strange events begin.
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- Netflix3.4/5
- IMDb6.0/1065,943 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes75%
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Plot summary
Richard Hall plans to wed Grace Marshall, whom he met during his research into an extremist cult. Grace was raised in the cult and is the only survivor of the mass suicide led by her father. Richard's children, Aidan and Mia, are grieving their mother, Laura. Six months on, Richard brings them to the family's remote Massachusetts lodge for Christmas so they can get to know Grace. The children treat her with hostility. After Richard departs for a work obligation, a blizzard strands Grace and the children inside the lodge. Catholic images in the cabin give her nightmares about her father.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Lodge (2020)
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- Before Riley Keough was cast as Grace, Franz and Fiala considered another unnamed actress who had already started a journal about the character's trauma. They ultimately chose Keough after meeting her.
- The Lodge began as a screenplay by Scottish writer Sergio Casci that sold to Hammer Films, which offered it to directing duo Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala. They agreed but rewrote a significant portion, including the ending, which Franz felt didn't work.
- The film was shot in chronological order. Fiala said Riley worried her character's difficult journey had to stay plausible, so they shot in sequence to help her and the other actors.
- Cinematographer Thimios Bakatakis and Franz and Fiala deliberately avoided eye-level shots for interiors, choosing angles above or below the actors. They modeled the film on a haunted house movie, inspired by Hitchcock's Rebecca.
- To build sibling chemistry between Martell and McHugh, directors Franz and Fiala took them on excursions including rock climbing and ice skating. Keough was kept separated from the children in pre-filming meetings to maintain their onscreen distance.
