The second remake of FW Murnau's unofficial Dracula adaptation is handsomely shot and stylised, with a forbiddingly gruesome monster, but walks the line between self-conscious and scary Here is Robert Eggers's avowed passion project as writer-director: a luxury-arthouse remake on a grand scale, paying homage to FW Murnau's classic silent film from 1922, the German expressionist nightmare of Count Orlok, or Nosferatu, the "evil one", a pallid vampire living in the shadow of the Carpathian Mountai...
Nosferatu review - Robert Eggers's respectful homage to a vampire horror classic
The Guardian - 2 Dec 2024 23:30
The second remake of FW Murnau's unofficial Dracula adaptation is handsomely shot and stylised, with a forbiddingly gruesome monster, but walks the line between self-conscious and scary Here is Robert Eggers's avowed passion project as writer-director: a luxury-arthouse remake on a grand scale, paying homage to FW Murnau's classic silent film from 1922, the German expressionist nightmare of Count Orlok, or Nosferatu, the "evil one", a pallid vampire living in the shadow of the Carpathian Mountai...
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