Just saw nosferatu

So glad to hear it’s good as I love Robert Eggers. I look forward to seeing it.

Nosferatu predicted this.

OP - Can you provide an example of one thing Lily does that you've never seen another actress do?

R3, that had to be asked, but I dread the answer.

The character is possessed by demonic forces and she’s required to rapidly shift between multiple personalities and emotional extremes while contorting herself in very unnerving ways. It’s a little reminiscent of Linda Blair a little bit Isabelle andjani in possession but superior to both.

I understand the skepticism about her abilities but she’s quite good in a very challenging part and the film would not work unless she nailed it which she does.

Didn’t PETA complain about the treatment of the rats??

🙄🙄🙄

How many fucking retellings of Dracula do we really need?

R6, PETA protested the film for promoting "shameful stereotypes" of rats. They did this, as far as I can tell, without consulting rats about this. It's possible rats ENJOY being scary vermin.

R5 Superior to Andjani’s performance which is considered one of the greatest acting feats in cinema? I highly doubt it. You sound like a promotional bot. Swipe left

Lilly gives good Unhead.

R9 your opinions about my opinions would carry a lot more weight if you had actually, you know, seen the movie. The film is currently 95% on rotten tomatoes and 82% on meta critic making it a very solid critical success and there isn’t a single review that doesn’t praise her performance.

r5 Thanks for elaborating. I'm looking forward to watching it!

I thought she was good in the idol even though I was prepared to hate her and the show was garbage

[quote]Superior to Andjani’s performance which is considered one of the greatest acting feats in cinema?

Now that made me laugh.

I admittedly am excited to see this. I like Robert Eggers's other movies quite a bit, and am a fan of both the 1922 and 1979 versions of "Nosferatu". The fact that Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Bill Skarsgard (take the latter's makeup out of the equation)—all fucking smoking hot IMO—are in this is just a bonus.

I am skeptical of Lily Rose-Depp but I'm refraining from judgment until I see the film. I will say that casting her as Nosferatu may have been a better choice though—that egghead is horrifying.

Nosferatu is Dracula?

there are too many Dracula movies to even count!

R16, it’s the same story. After the original silent version was released, Bram Stoker’s estate sued for copyright infringement and won. To resolve things, all copies of the film were supposed to be destroyed. One copy survived, though, and Nosferatu lived on.

[Quote] OP - Can you provide an example of one thing Lily does that you've never seen another actress do?

She reaches down her own throat and pulls her pancreas out her mouth.

[Quote] How many fucking retellings of Dracula do we really need?

I know right? It’s fucking ridiculous!

Awful Cinemascore

If there was a cinemascore for food macaroni and cheese would get an A and caviar a C. It’s a piss poor metric for quality.

[quote] Lily Rose Depp does things I’ve never seen an actress do.

It involves ping pong balls.

I’m surprised the Bram Stoker estate isn’t suing.

I've actually never seen the original. Looking forward to this.

R24, Dracula—the book, the character, etc.—is now in the public domain.

[quote]She reaches down her own throat and pulls her pancreas out her mouth. —Let’s see Steep manage THAT

I accept that challenge, r19. And will do it while singing!

There's a interesting well-written essay in "The Bloodied Nightgown" on the fascination with Dracula through the ages. I didn't realize how much the book has been studied, annotated, imitated and interpreted. The original novel sounds incredibly gruesome.

“According to Nina Auerbach in Our Vampires, Ourselves (1995), Dracula’s crimes are merely symbols of the real-life sociopolitical horrors facing the late Victorians. One was immigration. At the end of the century, eastern European Jews, in flight from the pogroms, were pouring into western Europe, thereby threatening to dilute the supposedly pure blood of the English, among others. Dracula, too, is an émigré from the East. Stoker spends a lot of words on the subject of blood, and not just when Dracula extracts it. Fully four of the book’s five vampire hunters have their blood transfused into Lucy’s veins, and this process is recorded with grisly exactitude. (We see the incisions, the hypodermics.) So Stoker might in fact have been thinking of the racial threat. Like other novels of the period, Dracula contains invidious remarks about Jews. They have big noses; they like money—the usual.”

Excerpt From: Joan Acocella. “The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays.” Apple Books.

[quote] The Bloodied Nightgown

Also seen in the current Bway rival of Sunset Blvd

[quote] I’m surprised the Bram Stoker estate isn’t suing.

Stoker didn't invent vampires

I want to see this but I can't stand gore and have heard there's some really gross bits throughout. Scares I love but not gross scenes.

That begs the question: which do you think is more disturbing--Nosferatu or Nicole Kidman naked in Babygirl?

[quote] but I can't stand gore and have heard there's some really gross bits

I'm the same. It sounds like this is just gratuitous blood and gore.

I am a lifelong horror enthusiast so maybe I am just desensitized, but I honestly would not classify this film as overtly gory—you see some blood here and there (it is a vampire film, after all) and there are some grotesque shots of Orlok's body, but that's really about it. It is far less gorier than your standard slasher movie even. It's really more of a gothic romance than it is a straightforward horror film, which again, is true to the traditional vampire narrative.

"does things I’ve never seen an actress do."

OP's fave "actress"

Watching a Mexican cam version as I type. Thank god I can read Spanish, so I could understand the Latin parts at the start.

How did they get the kitty to jump on the bed on command? Between this and Disclaimer, we've seem to have made tremendous strides in cat acting this past year.

GORGEOUS set design for that town. However, there was no Germany in 1838. German Confederation, yes, but no Germany just yet. Perhaps Eggers thought that word would be too triggering for the Americans? Also, maybe just pick a city/town, imagine how weird it would be if the card said "America, 1838". Like, where in America?

Okay, he just mentioned Würzburg not five minutes later, I can unclench a bit.

R33 Thanks, that's what I wanted to hear.

[quote] How many fucking retellings of Dracula do we really need?

How else will they catch up with all those Superhero movies?!

Thank god this was shot in Czechia and not in deplorable Hungary, which would leave a bad taste in my mouth. They've also just increased their production incentives, so hopefully we'll have even more projects shot there rather than in Hungary. Sorry, neighbours, but you're a certified fucking shithole.