Under those lenses, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu effortlessly joins the pantheon of good vampire films. Unfortunately, that is really all the film does, which is to mimic the movies that came before it.
To put his scheme of escaping the grounds that he was cursed to never leave and reach Ellen into action, Orlock lures her husband Thomas (Nicholas Hoult) to Transylvania.
Those who have watched the iconic Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror from 1922, Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre from 1979, Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula from 1992 or literally any movie inspired by the 1922 film will get a whiplash just reading the previous two paragraphs.
However, what the writer-director brings to the table in filmmaking and talent allows his version of Nosferatu to stand well above those that came before it.
Caked in magnificent rot
While his traditional human roles have always left something to be desired, Skarsgard once again shows he was born to play alarming and terrifying otherworldly characters with his take as Orlok or Nosferatu, which rivals his version of Pennywise the Clown from the It films.
The choice to change Nosferatu’s appearance in the film has to also be commended. Eggers knew the audience would have liked his vampire to look similar to Max Shreck’s Nosferatu from 1922, but opted for an update that is more striking and sinister.
From shots that put the vampire’s blisters into focus to the repulsive “interior” hidden by the fur coat, Eggers’s Nosferatu is worth the watch just for Skarsgard’s portrayal of the legendary vampire.
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