Nosferatu (Robert Eggers)

Bogey Lowenstein

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The Freidrich actor got on my wick a little bit, he seemed very hammy or ott at times. Thomas was well acted and Ellen gave an excellent, very unsettling performance, she actually scared me more than the Count. Something that had me giggling inside was that Willem Defoe reminded me so much of the Mel Brooks version of Van Helsing.

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Hamsterchops

Grew up watching & being a fan of horror/scary films, Started of with Hammer as the gateway drug, then onto real scary films like Alien & Nosferatu (1979 Herzog), and for me the dial stopped there.

The new Eggers Nosferatu is great in it's own right, scary as hell and full of dread and foreboding. An ever present feeling of death & gloom, with the Count casting his shadow (literally) over the entirety of the film. Excellent acting & casting, top drawer cinematography & sound, haunting & very bloody, but ……

For me it's too perfect, too polished, too well made and too refined. Highly recommended if you want to see & hear a bloodcurdling blood fest of savagery with the beast from hell …. but given the choice I'd favour the not so polished 79 Herzog movie with Klaus Kinsky. Simplicity & charm, slightly off beat and quirky too, not so highly produced, yet very scary and haunting in it's own charming way.

On saying all that I'd i give the new Nosferatu 9/10 as a stand alone horror story in it's own right 👍

Ezeoul

I found this slow moving and frankly, boring.

MfMan

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Have to agree somewhat. Visually excellent and the earlier scenes where Thomas / Hoult travels to Transylvania are well shot. After that though, it's like Eggers threw a whole lot of Dracula / Nosferatu cliches at the screen, hoping a few would stick. I didn't find it remotely scary I must admit and I don't think there's anything new that hasn't been covered in other vampire flicks. Ineson and McBurney are typically fine and Skarsgard is ok, but rather difficult to understand. Dafoe provides a guest appearance. Just 5 / 10 (for cinematography) from me.

Ezeoul

I also agree. Visually stunning, definitely, but I wouldn't bother watching it ever again.

Honestly, I got irritated quite quickly at all the excessive simpering, heaving bosoms and heavy breathing, where it wasn't needed. It was gory and graphic, rather than scary.

I think my favourite character, overall, was Ineson's.

murpho999

Finally got to see this last night and I really enjoyed it.

Visually stunning and for me the story moved along at a fine pace.

How anybody could say this was boring was beyond me. Do all scenes have to have a major impact. Can you not enjoy world building or character development?

Fine performances from a great cast with Willem Dafoe and Lily Rose Depp being the outstanding two

Rain from the West

Watched this last night. From a visual perspective it was beautifully shot. However Count Orlok switching between English and his native tongue didn't work for me. He came across as genuinely menacing in the latter. But in English he sounded like a comic book villain.