The director of 'The Witch' and 'The Lighthouse' presents us with what is, without a doubt, one of the best films of the year that is about to end
Twenty-five years after Bram Stoker gave birth one of the seminal novels of the horror genre and created its most iconic characterDracula, the German FW Murnau premiered in 1922 one of the most important films ever conceived, Nosferatu. The skeletal and ghostly image of one of the most terrifying vampires, immortalized by the mysterious actor Max Schreck, is already cinema history and food for our nightmares.
Now, more than a century laterone of today's fundamental horror directors, Robert Eggers, has decided to undertake the daring adventure of making a new version of Nosferatudirectly inspired by the work of Bram Stoker. Considering that Eggers' previous films have been The witch, The lighthouse y The man of the northwe can only expect something brutal, groundbreaking and, definitely, unique and terrifying.
The representation of the folkloric vampire
Universal Pictures Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen in 'Nosferatu'
For Eggers, his new film is his most personal work, “a story that I did not create, but that I have lived and dreamed of since my childhood”. A title, furthermore, with which he wanted to maintain the repulsive, almost stinking essence of the mythical character, without romanticizing or sweetening it. “The folk vampire is not an elegant seducer dressed in a tuxedo, nor is he an attractive, dark hero. The folk vampire embodies illness, death and brutal, ruthless sex. And this was the vampire I wanted to exhume for a modern audience “.
Nosferatu es a gothic tale that tells of the excessive obsession between a young woman and a terrifying vampire in love with her. An obsession that leaves a trail of death and desolation in its wake.
The real estate agent Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) He goes to Transylvania to meet Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård), a client who, in turn, could be a vampire. During his trip, his fiancee Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) stays with a friendly couple, Friedrich y Anna Harding (Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Emma Corrin). Plagued by continuous visions and irrational fear, Ellen must confront a force unknown to her.
Although in both the US and Spain the film will be released exclusively in theaters next Christmas Day, December 25, the critics have already given their verdict and we can say, without fear of being wrong, that we are facing one of the best films of the year, and not just horror.
Criticism bows down to Count Orlok
Universal Pictures Image of 'Nosferatu'
From Hobby Consoles They assure that the director “composes a fascinating story. He has the ability to hypnotize you like Orlok himself and the more dreamlike the sequences he composes, the more he subjugates you.” […] An atmosphere as disturbing as it is absorbing.” From THRin turn, assure that it is “impregnated with a dense atmosphere and macabre poetry“.
In The Independent They don't hold back and call it “one of the most deeply terrifying horror films of recent years”, giving it a score of five stars. And finally, we are left with the criticism of The Daily Beast: “An instant horror classic, a rigorous fairy tale, and a demented, malicious wonder. […] A masterpiece of unholy terror.”
A new horror masterpiece which will be released exclusively in cinemas, we remind you, next December 25. The best gift this Christmas for all lovers of the seventh art.
