The moment I found out Robert Eggers was remaking Nosferatu, I was hooked on the idea. Each casting announcement made me more excited. It did not disappoint.
Nichoulas Hoult is Thomas who is sent to Transylvania to sell Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård) some real estate. He leaves behind his new wife (Lily Rose Depp) who suffers from what is later assumed to be some kind of demonic possession. Really, she’s just spiritually connected to Orlok who visits her in dreams.
Most impressive here is the depiction of Orlok himself who is a rotted, deformed vampire who apparently carries the smell of rotting flesh. Skarsgård completely disappears behind the makeup and costuming. His performance adds to the mystique using an altered voice that is so frightening that a single sentence is enough to send shivers down your spine.
Lily Rose Depp leave not a second during which she isn’t tortured internally. During her fits and dreams, here eyes roll back in her head. It’s rumored there were no effects to those shots which makes them all the more unnerving that she pulled it off.
Film making all around is a spectacle for the eyes. Costumes set the time period and the crumbling sets of Transylvania and the house Orlok purchased set the tone for a movie filled with characters who mentally deteriorate by the end of the film. And the rats. So many rats, real ones, as Robert Eggers wouldn’t have CGI rats in his movie. A wise decision.
If you don’t know the history of the original 1922 version, it was loosely based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Known for its trick photography, the 1922 version is considered one of the best German horror films ever made. This new version does not use as much trick photography, but does utilize a lot of vampire lore derived from Stoker’s work. The characters are differently named and it is not a direct adaptation by any means, but the inspiration is there nonetheless.
Four and a half stars out of five.
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The moment I found out Robert Eggers was remaking Nosferatu, I was hooked on the idea. Each casting announcement made me more excited. It did not disappoint.
Nichoulas Hoult is Thomas who is sent to Transylvania to sell Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård) some real estate. He leaves behind his new wife (Lily Rose Depp) who suffers from what is later assumed to be some kind of demonic possession. Really, she’s just spiritually connected to Orlok who visits her in dreams.
Most impressive here is the depiction of Orlok himself who is a rotted, deformed vampire who apparently carries the smell of rotting flesh. Skarsgård completely disappears behind the makeup and costuming. His performance adds to the mystique using an altered voice that is so frightening that a single sentence is enough to send shivers down your spine.
Lily Rose Depp leave not a second during which she isn’t tortured internally. During her fits and dreams, here eyes roll back in her head. It’s rumored there were no effects to those shots which makes them all the more unnerving that she pulled it off.
Film making all around is a spectacle for the eyes. Costumes set the time period and the crumbling sets of Transylvania and the house Orlok purchased set the tone for a movie filled with characters who mentally deteriorate by the end of the film. And the rats. So many rats, real ones, as Robert Eggers wouldn’t have CGI rats in his movie. A wise decision.
If you don’t know the history of the original 1922 version, it was loosely based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Known for its trick photography, the 1922 version is considered one of the best German horror films ever made. This new version does not use as much trick photography, but does utilize a lot of vampire lore derived from Stoker’s work. The characters are differently named and it is not a direct adaptation by any means, but the inspiration is there nonetheless.
Four and a half stars out of five.
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