Nosferatu
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A Visual Feast that Fails to Frighten March 11, 2025
Iconic though the name “Dracula” has become in our culture, it is, in fact, a diminutive. The Transylvanian potentate Vlad III, who was feared for impaling his captured military opponents, took it from his father, Vlad II, who was known as “Dracul,” ...
The Poet of the New Gothic February 27, 2025
“...that is to say, when an idea would have been by a Roman, or Byzantine, symbolically represented, the Gothic mind realizes it to the utmost…the Gothic inventor does not leave the sign in need of interpretation. He makes the fire as like real fire ...
On Robert Eggers’s “Nosferatu” February 19, 2025
During Germany’s Vormärz period, a resurgence of interest in the occult and supernatural merged with medical practice. One of the most famous case studies was of Friedrike Hauffe, known as the Seeress of Prevorst, who suffered from an array of sympto...
Leave the Movie Previews Alone February 06, 2025
A half-hour of previews and a commute ballooned the last movie I saw in a theater — the cozy two-hour-and-12-minute Nosferatu — well past a three-hour time commitment. The standard trailers, the Noovie trivia crap, and, more recently, product ads (Pe...
An Unusual Cultural Artifact of Religious Revival February 04, 2025
Religiosity in America, measured in denominational affiliation and church attendance, has never been lower. Over the past decades, a growing culture of atheism (and non-denominationalism) has spread across the country and permeated into our art, trad...
'Nosferatu' and the Erotics of Evil January 08, 2025
Hello and welcome to Many Such Cases.I hope you all had a lovely holiday season. I enjoyed a nice little break from working and writing, but make no mistake — I thought of you all and this newsletter every day. I have a few essays on the horizon, inc...
Robert Eggers’s 'Nosferatu' Is a Modern Gothic Triumph January 08, 2025
Somewhere in the overcast German town of Wisborg, our weeping protagonist, Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp), emerges from the shadowy corners of her bedroom. Enveloped in an aching loneliness as dense as the sheet of darkness that blankets her, she cries out t...
“Nosferatu” Defanged January 06, 2025
One of the most famous scenes in F. W. Murnau’s 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu takes place on a rat-infested ship. All but two of the vessel’s crew have died of plague, and in desperation the first mate descends into the hold to attack the problem...
'Nosferatu' Steps Into the 21st Century December 31, 2024
It has been more than 100 years since German filmmaker F.W. Murnau released the first great horror film, 1922’s silent Nosferatu. An unauthorized adaptation of the Irish author Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, Murnau’s film singularly created the ho...
The Definitive Ranking of Vampires in Pop Culture December 31, 2024
We’re at the tail end of the holiday season: a time to reflect on the year that was, catch up with loved ones, and, for many households, sneak away to the nearest multiplex. And what says “fun for the whole family” like going to see the R-rated remak...
'Nosferatu' Is a Flawed Triumph December 31, 2024
When it comes to creating an aura of occult menace and eerie atmospherics, Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu is a triumph. His is such a rare talent that it seems almost unnecessarily picky to note the film’s unevenness, with sensational sequences followed b...
‘Nosferatu’ and ‘The Brutalist’ Reviews December 30, 2024
Robert Eggers is one of our most interesting filmmakers today because he makes a genuine effort to transport the modern viewer into pre-modern times. And while plenty of filmmakers do this via the trappings of costuming and set design, Eggers is one ...
‘Nosferatu’ Is Accomplished and Masterful (Derogatory) December 24, 2024
Not since Javier Bardem glowered his way through No Country for Old Men beneath a page boy haircut has a villain been as defined by their eccentric grooming choices as Bill Skarsgard in Robert Eggers’s remake of Nosferatu. In a movie that blatantly b...
‘Nosferatu’ Review December 03, 2024
With the reverential early-horror tribute that is “Nosferatu,” Robert Eggers has crafted more than just a remake, but somehow less than a fully satisfying filmgoing experience. Visually striking as it is, with compositions that rival great Flemish pa...
