Robert Eggers, the acclaimed director of The Witch [1], is back with another unsettling story to keep you up at night: The Lighthouse. In the first trailer for the black and white drama, we're introduced to Thomas Wake (Willem DaFoe) and Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson [2]), two lighthouse keepers who are posted on a remote New England island in the late 1800s.

Although the exact plot is still a bit mysterious, the trailer hints that the men will begin to go stir crazy in their surroundings, hallucinating mermaids, keeping grave secrets, spying on each other, and potentially ending their stay with an act of violence. Watch the trailer above to see if you can figure it out before the film arrives in theatres on Oct. 18 in the U.S. but sadly, we'll be waiting until Jan. 17, 2020 in the UK.