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\"\"Nosferatu<\/strong> (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Focus\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 132 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (bloody violent content, graphic nudity, some sexual content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Robert Eggers\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Robert Eggers\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Robin Carolan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Jarin Blaschke\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: December 25, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Bill Skarsgard, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Willem Dafoe, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ** \u00bd<\/p>\n

\u00a0I was really looking forward to Nosferatu<\/strong>, a remake of the 1922 silent horror film from German filmmaker F.W. Murnau. I haven\u2019t been enthralled by any of the big holiday releases this year. I was hoping Nosferatu<\/strong> would change that. It didn\u2019t. It\u2019s a disappointment. It\u2019s not a terrible film by any means, but it\u2019s not as great as it should be given the talent involved.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Part of the problem with Nosferatu<\/strong> is the pacing. It\u2019s slow-moving. I didn\u2019t expect a thrill-a-minute horror movie, but writer-director Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse) could have tightened up the narrative a bit. However, that\u2019s not my biggest gripe about Nosferatu<\/strong>. In my never humble opinion, Eggers dropped the ball in the creature design department. I don\u2019t like the look of this Count Orlok. The moustache is especially ridiculous. I originally thought it was CGI, but research reveals this vampire is makeup and prosthetics. It looked like CGI to me.\u00a0 I get that the makers didn\u2019t want to make Bill Skarsgard (It) look exactly like Max Schreck in the original. Okay, fine. He looks different, but the final result is less than impressive.<\/p>\n

\u00a0As I\u2019m sure you\u2019re already aware, Nosferatu<\/strong> is an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula. It tells the same basic story of a young woman who falls under the spell of a count from Transylvania. In this version of the tale, the action is set in Germany circa 1838. Ellen (Depp, The Idol) has been psychically connected to Count Orlok since she was a young girl. Now a young woman, she\u2019s newly married to Thomas (Hoult, Renfield), a rising star at a real estate agency. His boss Knock (McBurney, The Conjuring 2) sends him to Romania to meet with an eccentric new client interested in buying property in Wisborg. The client, of course, is Orlok who takes action to keep Thomas in his castle upon discovering he\u2019s married to Ellen.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Back home, Ellen is plagued by bouts of sleepwalking and seizures. Family friend Friedrich (Johnson, Kraven the Hunter) calls in the local doctor (Ineson, The Witch) who can\u2019t figure out what\u2019s wrong with her. He brings in occult expert Von Franz (Dafoe, The Lighthouse) to get to the bottom of her mysterious malady. It\u2019s he who figures out she\u2019s under the spell of a vampire he calls \u201cNosferatu\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Visually, Nosferatu<\/strong> is quite stunning. It\u2019s thick with atmosphere and dread. A gloomy pallor looms over the proceedings. Cinematographer Jarin Blaschke drains any and all bright colors, utilizing a gray and cool blue color palette. It\u2019s not always pretty to look at, especially when the rats arrive on the scene, but it evokes the right mood for the story. Eggers has a real eye for scene composition. If not for his visual poetry, the film would have been a complete bust.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The acting is decent. Depp gets top honors as Ellen, a woman haunted by something she can\u2019t comprehend. Her fear is palpable. Dafoe hams it up mightily as this tale\u2019s version of Van Helsing. Hoult is okay as Thomas. Skarsgard does a pretty good job as Orlok. It would be unfair to compare him to Max Schreck, so I\u2019m not going to do that. He puts his own unique spin on the character and doesn\u2019t botch it up. He\u2019s much better here than he was in this summer\u2019s Crow remake. Still, I was let down by the look of his character. He\u2019s grotesque, but not all that scary.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Now I find myself in a quandary. What do I do with Nosferatu<\/strong>? I really, really wanted to love it, but I don\u2019t. It\u2019s boring. I actually struggled to stay awake in parts. Although I try not to be influenced by other critics, I\u2019ve read and heard so many rave reviews I\u2019m starting to doubt myself. Did I miss something? Should I hold off on this review until I\u2019ve seen it a second time? Or should I trust my first impression? I honestly don\u2019t know. I want to be fair, but I\u2019m not sure I want to invest another 132 minutes of my life. What to do, what to do?<\/p>\n

\u00a0Okay, here\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do. I\u2019ll let this review of Nosferatu<\/strong> stand for now. I\u2019ll consider seeing it again. If nothing opens on Jan. 3, I\u2019ll see it again with a friend. How\u2019s that sound? For now, I am not a fan of this Nosferatu<\/strong>.\"\"<\/p>\n

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Nosferatu (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Focus\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 132 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (bloody violent content, graphic nudity, some sexual content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Robert Eggers\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Robert Eggers\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Robin Carolan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Jarin Blaschke\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: December 25, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Bill Skarsgard, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Willem Dafoe, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney. Rating: ** \u00bd \u00a0I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Nosferatu-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10493,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485\/revisions\/10493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}