Nosferatu (2024)

Nosferatu (2024) is much what you might expect from a Nosferatu adaptation from Robert Eggers. Probably Eggers’s least interesting film to me because I know the playbook so well, but absolutely worth a look.

It adds a few interesting harsh dramatic beats and a way in I wasn’t fond of, though not compared to Werner Herzog’s miserabilist 1979 version, which it inevitably looks a lot like.

It makes Orlok more a pervasive force than a character until the end - it might have been interesting to go all in on this and not characterise him at all.

Orlok himself is unfortunately not that striking visually as Nosferatus go, although he sounds horrible, if rather like the Black Speech of Mordor.

Of course it looks fantastic if often rather gloomy. My main evil glee was in the castle sequence and the build-up to it. I particularly liked one small touch.

Hutter wakes in the inn to find it, and the village, abandoned. And not in a were-they-ever-here way but in a they-buggered-off-and-left-him way.