Nosferatu Review 1

I'll have more to say after I digesting this film. I've been into Robert Eggers films since his The Witch movie and The Lighthouse is still one of my favorite horror films. So I was excited when I heard Bill Skaarsguard would be playing the titular vampire and he did not disappoint. The movie is filled with Gothic imagery and Victorian scenes almost to the point of absurdity. That's the key here, I caught a couple laughs in the audience and I laughed myself. Not because it was bad but more so at the oppressing feel of the film that anything that lightened the mood felt like a relief. I have a rule about horror films and it's that you almost never show the monster until the end and Eggers follows it perfectly. Only at the end do we see the hideous makeup Bill had to wear to portray a rotting corpse from Hell. I wasn't scared which is usually a knock on a film but I was so drawn into the great shots and the setting that I didn't have time to let the scares sink in. I also saw more nudity than I care to see but it comes off as a service to the film rather than a cheap way to get nudity in. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that the peomo pictures of a bald Skaarsguard weren't used in the film. He's usually hidden in the shadows but the makeup is different than the image passed around by the media.

I appreciate this film more than I fear it. Skaarsguard's It was scarier than Nosferatu but I still enjoyed myself. I doubt I'll see it again for a while but I would recommend the film just for the tremendous amount of effort put into the film.  

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