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Nosferatu (2024) ⭐ 7.2 | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

2h 12m | R
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Have enjoyed the director's other movies (haven't seen The Northman yet, though) and am hoping he'll be able to pull it off.

The Werner Herzog version was okay and the "spoof" version with Willem Dafoe wasn't that great, but I like the more creepy original version.

Hope this new one is actually scary and creepy and not just something like The Last Voyage of the Demeter, where the trailer was so lame that it made me not want to watch the movie.
 
I'm up for anything Eggers does. He actually makes the movies people mistake Aster for making.

Though I am disappointed that Dafoe isn't playing Orlock again. I personally like Shadow of a Vampire and, particularly, like Dafoe in that role.
 
I usually like Willem Dafoe, but I thought he was hamming it up too much in that role, which is sad, because I know he can do incredibly creepy.

He also feels a little too short for the role.

Personally I would have gone for Doug Jones for the height and skinny look and I know he could act the part. Bill Skarsgård always feels too animated and extroverted, where Orlock should be still and introverted.
 
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Nosferatoo long, Nosferatoo slow.

I'll preface this rant by stating that I neither cared for Robert Eggers's The Witch nor The Lighthouse, putting me in the minority, but his films bore the hell out of me. I just don't "get" this guy. "Nosferatu" looks fab, the sets/costumes are solid, it's beautifully stylish and atmospheric, and the cast is earning its money (everyone's good), but the film takes forever to get up on its feet. Also, and it might simply be my hearing (or the theater's sound system), but Orlack's accent is so thick and the voice so slow and booming I couldn't understand a damn thing he's saying half the time (when Orlack speaks his native language, there are subtitles which would have been helpful throughout).

Despite my negatives, there's still a lot of good, fun stuff in the film—fabulous Demeter bit for once—so it's worth seeing if interested. I hope you like it more than I did. You probably will. Eye of the beholder, folks.
 
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Nosferatoo long, Nosferatoo slow.

I'll preface this rant by stating that I neither cared for Robert Eggers's The Witch nor The Lighthouse, putting me in the minority, but his films bore the hell out of me. I just don't "get" this guy. "Nosferatu" looks fab, the sets/costumes are solid, it's beautifully stylish and atmospheric, and the cast is earning its money (everyone's good), but the film takes forever to get up on its feet. Also, and it might simply be my hearing (or the theater's sound system), but Orlack's accent is so thick and the voice so slow and booming I couldn't understand a damn thing he's saying half the time (when Orlack speaks his native language, there are subtitles which would have been helpful throughout).

Despite my negatives, there's still a lot of good, fun stuff in the film—fabulous Demeter bit for once—so it's worth seeing if interested. I hope you like it more than I did. You probably will. Eye of the beholder, folks.
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Unfortunately I have to agree with aspects of your review.
I enjoyed The Lighthouse and The Norseman but there were times during Nosferatu where my attention did start to drift a little, part of that could be because of tw*ts playing with their phones or people rustling plastic wrappers taking me out of the film.
Also, knowing the story meant I was sorting of waiting for certain beats to hit, there weren't any surprises here.
If you're a film fan, the whole mise en scene will no doubt appeal, but as a film that engaged me it didn't meet that same level.

Overall I would give it 6.5/10, good to see once but I wouldn't watch it again.
 
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I'm Eggers-pilled; I like just about everything he's done thus far with my preferences being his first two films, The Witch and The Lighthouse. It's not that I don't like The Northman, I just find it bereft of what makes the Witch and Lighthouse work so well, and it's their dread atmosphere. It's absolutely palpable the experience watching it unfold in either of those movies and it's that intensity that I really enjoy experiencing. Northman kind of just delivers what's on the tin and does it well enough, but there's not much else there to bring me back for further reviews. I'm kind of sad to say this, but Nosferatu is like that as well. It's a more "mainstream" offering much like The Northman was, and it makes it kind of lackluster. It's well directed, looks great, and exquisitely costumed but there's not much more to get me back. It wasn't boring for me but everything that wasn't Orlok on screen wreaking havoc isn't very strong.

I loved the depiction of Orlok and, more broadly, evil in this story. It's big, vast, corrupting, and spoiling of land and spirit, it's almost insurmountable. He brings the intensity that I look for in Eggers' work. I just think he did this level of dread and the ramifications of suffering it was done already and far better in The Witch as there was an emotional weight to it. Nosferatu has all the lavish and spectacle but really lacks emotional weight to have it mean anything.

I enjoyed it (even if the crowd I saw it with kept taking out their bright phones through the runtime's entirety) but it is one of his lesser works. If I were to rank his films, from best to not-best: 1) The Witch, 2) The Lighthouse, 3) Nosferatu, 4) The Northman, and Nosferatu only just edging out Northman.
 
renaissance_man said:
Unfortunately I have to agree with aspects of your review.
I enjoyed The Lighthouse and The Norseman but there were times during Nosferatu where my attention did start to drift a little, part of that could be because of tw*ts playing with their phones or people rustling plastic wrappers taking me out of the film.
Also, knowing the story meant I was sorting of waiting for certain beats to hit, there weren't any surprises here.
If you're a film fan, the whole mise en scene will no doubt appeal, but as a film that engaged me it didn't meet that same level.

Overall I would give it 6.5/10, good to see once but I wouldn't watch it again.
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How about Orlock's voice, did you struggle to understand him? I've read other reviews that had the same problem I had.
 
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How about Orlock's voice, did you struggle to understand him? I've read other reviews that had the same problem I had.
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The voice was ok, I tuned into it without any problems.
It was just the film itself wasn't as gripping as I had hoped.
I was looking forward to seeing it, but it didn't live up to my expectations. Worth seeing once but I wouldn't watch it again.
 
hi all. i really liked the new movie, and i was inspired by the "new" contract to create my own document. i think i will create one identical to the new movie. i hid the texts for obvious reasons.
 

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while my studio is open again, I'm doing some interesting little things. who signs the contract???? entirely done from reference photo, completely redone.
 

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While waiting to move into my new workshop, I am having fun with some improvements to the contract of the tale of Orlock. There is a more Red version in the printing (left) and a more discreet one (right) the seal is not the right one, I am waiting to receive the final seal.
 

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Finally watched this. Agree with the sentiment above. Not as strong as The Witch and The Lighthouse. Haven't seen The Northman as I'm a little tired of Hollywood's version of Northern people and had hoped for more from Eggers, but will see it eventually.

The story is a mix of the '22 version and the '79 version, with a little '92 Bram Stoker's Dracula added, which I could have been without.

Very moody and creepy in parts, but suffering from some of the added fluff.

Still think Orlock should have been played by the actor playing the doctor - the father in The Witch. Perfect age, perfect build, perfect height, perfect face and perfect voice for the role, and it sounded like Bill Skarsgaard was imitating it with a lot of modulation, while that actor was brightening his voice so he wouldn't sound the same. A bit of a waste.
 
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Eggers should have made it more weird like The Witch and The Lighthouse. I was hoping he would... but it felt like it lacked his weird, intruiging touch.
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That was my biggest gripe, too. Witch and Lighthouse both had no reservation about becoming inexplicable and 'dreamy' and that's what draws me to Eggers' work most. Nosferatu is very accessible and, while it's not a bad thing, it does make it a bit dull.
 
I'm also slightly baffled by giving Depp's character a larger role, but removing her own agency in the biggest choice she makes in the story. In the earlier versions it was all her decision - her strength - in the new one it's no longer her making the decision, but rather, it's something suggested or put upon her by Dafoe's character.
 
I think it was more or less he pretty much confirms what she already knew what she had to do but, being the times they are, she was to mind her place the entire time by everyone else's account, so I believe Dafoe's character was just that extra confirmation. I'm more miffed by the fact that the introduction wasn't us, the audience, watching her as a child in her loneliness and sadness reaching out for something to console her and wakening something nefarious as Orlok by accident and them building that psychic bond. That her melancholia wasn't just that but something more. There would've been some stake to why Orlok is obsessed with her as she grew older and meeting Thomas; some emotional weight with consequence would've been established. While I enjoyed the movie, when that revelation came in the form of long, dry scenes of dialogue, I can see why many people felt this movie was boring and the characters shallow. The ingredients were there, but I don't believe it was mixed and baked in the right order.

Again, I felt this theme of the 'heroine' being a 'woman out of time' was done far better in The Witch. We see the conditions that the protagonist is brought up in, her reactions to how everyone treats her, and in the end, her taking action for good or ill as a result.
 
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