The Lighthouse currently dominates Midsommar 80–20

Deprivation horror buries daylight horror at distance.

80% 20%

Based on 20 head-to-head votes across 1 bracket

The Verdict Class of 2019

Eggers stripped everything away — colour, widescreen, context, sobriety — and built his horror from what remained: two men, a tower, a light they can’t stop staring at. The 1.19:1 frame is a coffin stood on end. Aster’s Midsommar works the opposite method: wide open fields, relentless sunshine, every ritual performed in full view. Both approaches are formally audacious. But at this margin, the horror you can’t quite see is proving far more durable than the horror you’re forced to watch. Dafoe’s monologues land like weather systems. Pugh’s grief is devastating but fully legible. Legibility, it turns out, has a ceiling in a format that rewards the films you keep thinking about. You finish Midsommar understanding what happened. You finish The Lighthouse unsure whether anything happened at all.

The Numbers

	The Lighthouse	Midsommar
Head-to-Head	80%	20%
Overall Win Rate	48%	54%
Championships	49	32
Avg Decision	3.5s	3.3s
Budget	$11M	$9M
Box Office	$18M	$48M

The Twist

Midsommar has the stronger overall record on BingeBracket at 54% to 48%. Against most opponents, it wins more — just not against The Lighthouse.

Where This Matchup Sits

Both sit mid-table among 53 films from the 2010s on BingeBracket — similar decade standing.

Elsewhere on the platform, Nosferatu reveals where they differ: The Lighthouse wins that matchup easily, while Midsommar struggles with it.

The championship record tells the same story: The Lighthouse has 49 tournament wins to Midsommar's 32. The pedigree gap matches the head-to-head gap.

On similar budgets ($11M vs $9M), Midsommar grossed $48M while The Lighthouse made $18M. But The Lighthouse wins the bracket matchup despite earning less.