Robert Eggers’ long-awaited Nosferatu is an unexpected hit. The film has currently grossed over $100 million worldwide, making it one of the most successful horror movies of 2024, not to mention ...
In the press notes from Focus Features, Eggers has called Nosferatu his "most personal film…embedded with many of my own memories and personal experiences amplified and transposed to 1830s Baltic ...
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 ...
In the 1920s and 1930s, filmmakers created two distinct lineages of Draculas. In 1922, German silent film visionary F.W. Murnau released Nosferatu, an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel ...
Passion projects often are lauded simply for their passion, for the sheer effort it takes to bring a dream to life. Sometimes, that celebration of energy can obfuscate the real artistic merits of a ...
Understand that Robert Eggers didn’t decide to make an adaptation of the 1922 silent German film “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” on a whim. In the director’s statement for his “Nosferatu,” which ...
In "The Language of Shadows," a one-hour documentary included on Kino Lorber's DVD release of FW Murnau's classic chiller "Nosferatu" (1922), the auteur is recalled by his niece as a sensitive, ...
It may have gotten trampled in the rush for Oscar nominations, but Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu” is a chilling journey that has plenty of moments that will make you jump. Taking F.W. Murnau’s film and ...
Left: Lily-Rose Depp in "Nosferatu." (Courtesy Aidan Monaghan/Focus Features) Right: Nicole Kidman in "Babygirl." (Courtesy Niko Tavernise/A24) Back in April, when reviewing Luca Guadagnino’s randy ...
While gothic fiction has been prevalent since the 18th century, it reappears as a staple of popular culture during moments of social and political transition. It makes sense, then, that the gothic has ...