The Lodge: 'The Lodge' review: Riley Keough makes it worthwhile

At one point the characters themselves seem to stop just short of invoking the plot of “The Others,” a horror picture they may have seen once upon a happier time.

There’s nothing wink-wink postmodern about “The Lodge,” though at the same time, there isn’t much conviction or heat in the way it quietly shuffles through its various reference points, either.

The haunted-house elements are offset by a dash of suicide-cult claptrap, complete with flashbacks to duct-taped bodies and other sinister imagery reminiscent of Jonestown and Heaven’s Gate.

It’s a contrivance, designed to get us thinking seriously about the return of long-repressed trauma, and also about sin, guilt and remorse.