The second remake of FW Murnau’s unofficial Dracula adaptation is handsomely shot and stylised, with a forbiddingly gruesome monster, but walks the line between self-conscious and scary
ere is Robert Eggers’s avowed passion project as writer-director: a luxury-arthouse remake on a grand scale, paying homage to, the German expressionist nightmare of Count Orlok, or Nosferatu, the “evil one”, a pallid vampire living in the shadow of the Carpathian Mountains. Eggers’s film can’t quite bear to say the comedy word “Transylvania” out loud, though we get to glimpse it on a map.
Most importantly, Willem Dafoe plays occult expert and vampire-hunter Professor Von Franz, a heterodox outsider and freethinker who is the only one they can rely on; he is the equivalent of Stoker’s Van Helsing and the great ancestor of Father Merrin in Friedkin’s The Exorcist. .
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