The Lighthouse Movie Facts, Easter Eggs and hidden details

References the Sacha Schneider painting Hypnosis (1904)

Willem Dafoe's character references "The Chicopee" when talking about how boredom affects sailors. The USS Chicopee was a real ship used during the Civil War to blockade Confederate ports, which would have been very boring for the crew.

Director Robert Eggers makes a costume choice that has dark implications to the previous scene it is shown in.

After Winslow falls from the lighthouse the paint on his face resembles a lighthouse with his eye as the light.

Robert Pattinson's character makes a toast with water at the beginning of the film. Making toasts with water is seen as bad luck across many cultures and can even cause the death of yourself or the person you're toasting with.

The Lighthouse (2019), Willem Dafoe's fate is foreshadowed in this scene.

Contains visuals inspired by works of art from the late 1800's and early 1900's, like this one - "Hypnosis" painted in 1904 by Sascha Schneider, a gay German artist.

The seagull that harasses Winslow and that he later kills is missing an eye. The partner of Thomas Wake that died was also missing an eye. At the end Winslow is also missing and eye when he's dead on the beach because the seagulls had picked it off.