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 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
same, i thought it was extremely mid
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