A man walks alone in the snow.
There, he is told, awaits only shadow and demons; a nightmare without end.
For anyone who has seen F.W.
Yet in rarefied moments,Robert Eggers 2024 retelling of the classic vampire story feels strangely new.
As the most aesthetically beatific rendering of theDraculamyth put to screen, EggersNosferatuis also the most perverse.
The woman in question is named Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp in the Mina Murray role).
Like other versions of this character, she is a woman graced with an otherworldly intuition for the supernatural.
However, more so than any other telling, thisNosferatuis her movie.
He urges her to never speak aloud those macabre fancies which follow from her dreams.
Much in the marketing has been made about the mystery of the vampires appearance.
At least with Pennywise, the dancing eyes remained.
There is a deeply empathetic concern for all the players in Eggers treatment.
Depp providesNosferatuwith a soul, giving texture and context to the ancient motif of Death and the Maiden.
The appeal, then, of thisNosferatuis the juxtaposition between the radiant and the rancid.
The contrast even seems designed to carry the viewer inside the vampires worldview.
Their final repose is what lets them live forever.
Nosferatu opens in the U.S. on Dec. 25 and in the UK on Jan. 1.
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Rating:
5 out of 5
