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Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu ignores a century of Draculas to summon an old monster
- Robert Eggers is back with his new movie 'Nosferatu', which is a tribute to Murnau's version of Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula'.
- Eggers is known for digging deep into the language and traditions of the past to bring his visions to life.
- 'Nosferatu' ignores a century of movie Draculas with one notable exception and goes straight to the source.
- Eggers has reset that narrative and created a movie that bypasses a changed corpse – a cinematic one: a tribute to the original version of Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula' as imagined by F.W. Murnau.
- Eggers uses Murnau’s German character names and precisely replicates his settings, giving the film a color treatment so washed-out that it’s almost monochrome.
- In his previous three films, Eggers’ vision was striking for its originality and craft.
- In this movie, Eggers gives strength to characters and subplots and fleshes out Murnau’s stripped-down retelling of Stoker into something more expansive and durable.
- 'Nosferatu' has an impressively doomy atmosphere and one hell of a closing shot which makes it a finely wrought monument to the ultimate Gothic horror movie.
- As a new reading of one of the most resonant stories of the past 150 years, it rings hollow.
- 'Nosferatu' debuts in theaters on Dec. 25.
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