Nosferatu Afterthoughts

After thinking and digesting the movie, I'm led to some new thoughts. I thought of the famous painting "Saturn Devouring his Son." A horrifying picture of the past eating at the future by Fracisco Goya. The pictilure is horrible to look at, by you appreciate the representation and effort that went into it rather than the work. I feel the same about Egger's new film. I appreciate the work that went into making me believe that the movie was set in the Victorian age with a vampire hunting down a married woman. But it wasn't scary like "It," or disturbing like "Skinamarink." It's a good film that's more about horror than scary.

Count Orlok, played by Bill Skarsgard is a fantastic monster. He's not a heartthrob not understood by humanity or a menace only when threatened. He brings a plague of rats with him as he heads to collect his woman. Bound by rituals of darkness and wrapped in shadow, he's a hungry monster that causes terror. It's refreshing to see the monster as a monster. Bill, of course, brings his A game but uses his voice to become the menacing creature with a raspy voice and guttural gasps of a dying man. A change from his usual technique of causing his eyes to almost pop out of his head. It's what he was known for as Pennywise but now Bill is a monster with all his senses. 

Willem Dafoe comes across as a madman in his role as a vampire hunter. Maybe those that hunt monsters really do become monsters. He looks like he's having fun and that's always a plus for me. 

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