While Netflix had plenty of big-name movies out this last month, like Rebel Moon and Chicken Run 2, they're being beaten to the top spot in the streamer's UK movies ranking by an older Riley Keough horror movie.
This movie is called The Lodge, which made a small splash when it released but has blown up again once more. Since being added to Netflix at the beginning of the new year, it quickly jumped onto the streamer's movie Top 10 list. At the time of writing it's the most-watched movie on Netflix UK!
In The Lodge, a man (Richard Armitage) leaves his wife for another woman (Riley Keough), who has a cultist and religious past. Several months later, he takes his two kids to spend Christmas with this new love... however bizarre and unexplainable events start to occur, that could be linked to this woman's past.
When it came out, The Lodge was fairly well-received by critics but it had a very limited theatrical run, and so only made a small dent in the US box office at just over $3 million. It wasn't even released in cinemas in other parts of the world, so its addition to Netflix could well be most people's first chance to see the movie.
The Lodge was produced by once-legendary horror studio Hammer Film Productions, and was directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, who are perhaps best known for their 2014 Austrian horror movie Goodnight Mommy.
While Riley Keough was a fairly big name when The Lodge came out, she has had her biggest roles since then with The Devil All the Time later in 2020, The Terminal List in 2022 and Daisy Jones & the Six in 2023.
Given that The Lodge is trending on Netflix higher than many streamer originals, it's definitely well worth a watch, but only if you think spooky horror movies are for you.
Now that it's on Netflix, fans on X (formerly Twitter) can't decide whether they like the movie or not. Some are singing its praises, calling it "creepy, disturbing and cool". However others are less impressed, calling it slow or boring.
Very creepy, disturbing and cool. Screamed in the first 10 minutes! The Lodge now on Netflix #thelodge pic.twitter.com/sDhIO49cpNJanuary 4, 2024
Just watched The Lodge on Netflix so that you don't have to. It's slow, a bit weird but most annoying of all is that they filmed it with the microphones 200 miles away from the actors cos a lot of the time you can hear f all... until the music starts, which is deafening. 1/10January 4, 2024
Some watchers manage to straddle both groups, finding it horrifying for all the wrong reasons...
I watched The Lodge (2019) on Netflix.I wish I had not. I was fascinated by it for a while, until it got more and more nastily unsettling.January 3, 2024
