Love me some Gothic horror and god damned if I wasn’t satisfied. Gorgeous, had a bit of fun addressing some of the more problematic trappings of the genre in how it treats women.
Remade some of the amazing shots from the original film, maintained a fantastic creeping horror and dread, lots of truly disgusting practical effects, and some original and well realised additions.
Absolutely fab.
i love all the robert eggers movies and you cant make me hate any one of them (even though i think the lighthouse is a little overrated)
I can’t get over how a big plot point is taking a ship from Hungary to Germany. I just absolutely can’t get over that It is a plot point introduced solely to make this not dracula, but copyright expired just call him dracula
taking a ship from Hungary to Germany
???
I’m sorry but WHAT
dracula also took a ship to england
oh heck yeah! it even has it’s own movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Voyage_of_the_Demeter
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (also known as Dracula: Voyage of the Demeter in some international markets)[7] is a 2023 American supernatural horror film directed by André Øvredal, and written by Bragi F. Schut Jr.[b] and Zak Olkewicz. It is an adaptation of “The Captain’s Log”, a chapter from the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.
Yes because that’s the way to get to England, it is not the way you would travel to Germany.
who hasn’t sailed the plains of Europe in a magnificent land ship
If he was really determined to travel by ship for part of the journey the Danube river runs pretty far. It doesn’t run through Transylvania, though, so he would need to get to the river first.
But it’s a coastal city, and he comes there by ocean. It can’t be the danube which would make sense. He’d need to either travel through Russia and take a boat from the black sea ports or go down through the balkans and take a boat from there to Germany. Either way he has to cross all of the Mediterranean a bit of the Atlantic, and apparently sail through the north sea pointed vaguely in the direction of Germany based on the last bit of the journey being at high seas (Going the long way around great britain instead of through the channel?)?!
Or do we combine the two and he takes the danube to the black sea, and then the river boat also takes the long way around?!
I guess you could argue travel by sea is safer for a being who can’t be exposed to daylight
Probably right that it was a narrative oversight.
You’re absolutely right, it’s clearly on the ocean. The film is just dumb haha
I wouldn’t call it dumb. It’s because it’s just an adaption of a ship going to England but nameswapped to Germany. The story is still good. It’s just that my brain is bad
It’s just that my brain is bad
noticing things is actually brain being good tho
I could simply be a philistine when it comes to gothic horror, but I just really did not like the movie. It was pretty faithful to the original, but with tons of extra bloody and sexual violence/ grossness added on for no reason I could see, other than to be like “oh no how shocking”.
I know it’s meant to be disgusting, but it felt very mindlessly so. No symbolism or metaphor, and I certainly didn’t notice any plot relevance to any of it. Like a complete story was already written, then they went “let’s stick on some more gore and gross stuff for kicks” (which I guess is sort of literally what happened).
It was very cinematic. Technically impressive for sure. The bit I did really enjoy was the first arrival at Nosferatu’s digs and all the shadowy movement and atmosphere. It made him seem very demonic and inhuman, almost Hellsing Alucard-like.
Again, it may very likely just not be my kind of movie
Vampire fiction has always had a sexual element to it, the OG Dracula was very much about sexual repression in Victorian society. It’s probably one of the most consistently horny genres of fiction ever. Also Nosferatu is a blood sucking demon.
If it’s not your cup of tea that’s fine, but between it being about Dracula and the director having a reputation for not shying away from graphic or uncomfortable subject matter idk how anyone expected it NOT to have gore and sex.
I didn’t really like it either. Not my thing I guess. It has a good look to it, but the movie itself was horribly boring to me.
Bloody sexual violence is good
i watched this with my gf a couple weeks back. neither of us got why she wanted to fuck the vampire or what was going on lol
She had latent psychic powers and was depressed as a child so she mentally reached out for help and Nosferatu responded. This is actually a thing in occultism (I’m told), when you try and reach out to the divine you have to first pass through the realm of evil and demons and intercept your call to corrupt you.
They weren’t literally fucking (in the beginning) but forming a psychic bond.
Watched it in theatre earlier this year. Beautiful, disgusting movie.
It’s so fucking good. The shadow hand manipulating the door was just like chills. Whoever designed that scene adores the genre.
I saw it twice, the cinematography is stunning.
incel nosferatu literally just wanted to fuck the young mistress
I yelled to a room full of motherfuckers I don’t even know that I needed a shower, went home and took one after the first screening. I knew damn well that this Orlok was gonna be the biggest PoS version of him we’ve ever seen, but even then my expectations were a bit succeeded. Saw it opening night in the cinema, twice. Best xmas ever
They really worked him into this malignant stain on the world. I adored the dream logic of his scenes, and the way they made the animal transformation less goofy by making the rats/plague/wolves/count a sort of nebulous evil entity more than one single spooky dude.
