The Lighthouse currently dominates Midsommar 79–21

Deprivation horror buries daylight horror at distance.

79% 21%

Based on 19 head-to-head votes across 1 bracket

The Verdict Class of 2019

This matchup has 19 votes. The picture may shift as more people weigh in.

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	79%	21%
Overall Win Rate	51%	55%
Championships	42	23
Budget	$11M	$9M
Box Office	$18M	$48M

Where This Matchup Sits

Among 34 films from the 2010s on BingeBracket, The Lighthouse is in the upper half and Midsommar at #10.

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 42 tournament wins to Midsommar's 23. 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.