Nosferatu

Firmly rejecting the prevailing style in horror movies today, Mr. Eggers has created a somber, cold-sweat doomscape that is in no way a thrill ride.

Even at its most disgusting, and it does get disgusting, the film is engrossing. It’s not that you can’t look away. It’s that you want to look and look again. That’s the lure of the vampire. And it’s the lure of “Nosferatu,” Eggers’ best film (at least so far).

Skarsgård’s the ace though. Without going overboard, and never being anything less than terrifying, he fleshes out Orlok into a richer character than bat-like Schreck was able to. His tragic, albeit disturbing, final scene almost puts a stake right through our hearts.

The reason to see this Nosferatu anyway is its handsomely detailed production, which is soaked in gothic atmosphere thanks to incredible design, cinematography, and that creepy Skarsgard performance.

If you know the Dracula legend, you know what comes next. “Nosferatu,” which also was remade by Werner Herzog in 1979, is therefore somewhat predictable. But the images and performances are so riveting that it doesn't matter.

This take on Nosferatu may be essential viewing for fans of gothic horror but must be recommended with caution for everyone else.

Nosferatu is a failure on almost every level.

Just as Eggers' previous creations, Nosferatu is a poem of cinematography. Faithful to the atmosphere of the original, with excellent costumes, sets and acting.

Apesar de gostar da temática de vampiros e o filme retratar bem a história de Nosferatu, faltou um algo a mais, um desenvolvimento melhor de alguns personagens e uma explicação melhor da história, para aqueles que não conhecem a lenda.

Superb cinematography, talented cast and high production quality do their best with a limited screenplay and some pacing issues. I live a slow burn horror but this film drags its heels before hitting you with the horrific moment which almost defeats the point of any build up at all. Direction is interesting but the overall choreography feels unfocused instead delivering very technical shots one after the other. Perhaps a shorted, punchier cut of the same movie would've worked better here. Genre fans will enjoy this regardless of its shortcomings.

By far the least well accomplished Eggers film. It doesn't do anything particularly interesting with the material, and every aspect of it was better executed by Murnau, Herzog or plenty of other Dracula adapters. There isn't a different perspective or vision to this new version, and the most interesting parts of it didn't really have any direct correlation to Nosferatu (I think that few things regarding the handling of Orlok work). It made me wish Eggers just took his thin, barely developed psychosexual themes and made another movie with it: similar setting, gothic atmosphere and all, different story. But to be honest not even these themes are all that interesting, since all they are doing is transforming the subtext of the originals and making it into text (But that's apparently the general perception of what "elevated horror" needs to be, themes have to be evident or thinly veiled behind obvious symbolism for horror to be dealing with "important" or "serious" ideas. But I digress).I'm also surprised to announce that it didn't even work on an atmospheric or visual level. Some compositions are ok enough (the best visual of the movie is an homage to Murnau's Faust), but the color palette is horrible. I feel like it would have looked much better if it was in black and white. It still wouldn't save the movie though, because the whole narrative is presented through a monotone that I just wasn't able to sync with. There is no build-up towards anything. Eggers seems to think that every moment needs to be intense and epic, an eternal constant of maximum everything. It's just constantly trying hard to be creepy and eerie and dark, all of the time. The reason The Witch and The Lighthouse work is that there is enough time for the story and the characters to breathe, so the intense moments have some weight to them. If everything is intense and intensity is all you have to offer, such intensity is immediately rendered meaningless. Every character in this just made me wish I was watching Schreck or Lugosi or my dear and beloved Dwight Frye. Dafoe is pretty good and the last half is much better than the first, but this was still an overall frustrating experience. I dislike almost every decision regarding Orlok. I do like the dogs I guess, but that's it. After I first saw The Witch in theaters in 2015 I would eagerly await for a new Eggers project year after year, but since his last two films it seems that I've been more and more disconnected from his style and disinterested in his approach to filmmaking. I'm glad Nosferatu is doing much better than The Northman in terms of box-office because it means Mr. Eggers will be able to still find financial support for his films and I like it when people do what they like to do. But I can't really say I'm as excited for his future projects as I used to be. I'll still check it out in cinemas though. I swear I really wanted to like it.

It’s a waste of time. The acting is good, but the movie is completely boring. An extremely overrated film , “the best adaptation of Dracula”? Yeah, right…