Overview
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

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| Country: | US |
| Genre: | Horror/Supernatural, Fantasy |
| Production Companies: | Focus Features, Studio 8, Maiden Voyage Pictures, Birch Hill Road Entertainment |
| Watched by: | 7 339 of 1 025 800 |
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the film is definitely atmospheric. real cinema art!
But he's not scary, he is... whatever word to choose... disgusting. no matter how this word sounds, but it came to my mind after the end of the movie.
There's such a disgusting aftertaste at the end, and that's not bad, it's a well-done job by the entire production team.
It looked good in the cinema, but I probably wouldn't review it at home...
Lilly Rose Depp makes you laugh with her obsession. the rest of the cast is good, the picture of the film itself is beautifully made, but all these unpleasant scenes make watching boring and uncomfortable. after watching it, there was some kind of feeling of abomination..
It's a pity, there were expectations about the movie
In general, my main conclusions from the film are that you need to solve all problems with your ex first before getting married, especially if the ex is a bloodsucker. And if you marry a young strange girl, make sure that she did not have a vicious connection with an ancient demonic entity. Well, if you are given a contract in an unknown language, you should not thoughtlessly sign without understanding what exactly you are signing, especially if you work in a law firm yourself. :D
There is no special scene in the film (
The picture, the staging, the sound, the acting and the makeup are gorgeous
If it were reduced to 1.5 hours, it would be ideal.
My inner vampire lover rejoices))
I was pleased with the film, the atmosphere of the film is amazing, the cast is amazing.
Lily Rose played it cool 👏🏼
It turned out to be a worthy reinterpretation and reincarnation of Murnaun's century-old Nosferatu. The film came out visually beautiful. The director of photography did a great job. The musical range is also beyond praise and probably accounts for half of the total atmosphere. The acting is good for the most part, except for some moments where Lily Rose Depp overplayed her hand too much. Holt did a good job of the role, as did Defoe - it was nice to watch. Skasgard is difficult to assess, since the lion's share of the character is one big job of the makeup artists (who did a great job with their role). The image of Orlak is strikingly different from the previous two classic performances by Max Schreck and Klaus Kinski (the second one does not visually differ from the first one). The current image has become much closer to the living dead, and it is Romanian (hello to the mustache and forelock of Vlad the Impaler). Eggers made the right decision not to show the count in any of the promotional materials for the film, which had a positive effect on the perception of the mystery of the character.
So, a subjective five out of five points and the expectation of an expanded version of the film, which will have to be released on physical media after the theatrical release (as well as the opportunity to watch cut scenes that were missing from the version that was rolled in our cinemas.
As a bonus to the film, I advise you to familiarize yourself with the original painting from 1922 and The Shadow of the Vampire by E.E. Merige, which tells about the adventures of Nosferatu. By the way, Defoe played the main role there.
Camerawork is based solely on centering in the middle, which makes any frame look poor compositionally.
Bill Skarsgard's inappropriate expense is either a cloak or an arm in the frame, any actor could be cast in this role.
Well, the moral of the fable is that from time immemorial a woman has been accustomed to sacrifice, so that in the end she would sacrifice herself for everyone... conveniently.
It's better to read Stoker's Dracula. There, the hero is not so caricaturally evil, but more complex and ambiguous, evoking even sympathy. It's just a bald, mustachioed uncle who wants to eat. The film didn't even try to delve into the character's depth, focusing entirely on the mystical component. Beautiful wrapper with standard contents
, it's beautiful, but the plot, the narration, the disclosure of the characters.... Yeah, they put it in the groove 15 times, they barely finished it.
A lot of cool actors, the cast is gorgeous.
But the plot doesn't hold at all, as banal as possible.
6/10 🤝
If we take into account the exclusively silent movie Nosferatu, then yes, the new version with Count Orlok simply made a "curtsy" to the original and Yeggers succeeded in his idea, with new details and the ending of the film.
Bill Skarsgard's Count Orlok is the spitting image of our Ukrainian Cossack, "in Tula with an ass"Romanian traditional outfits are much closer to our Ukrainian ones than I might have thought, it's interesting))
But perhaps my main complaint about Eggers personally is his excessive accuracy. It is possible that, having received a large budget, he became a hostage to studio expectations aimed at the mass audience. Here he does not seek to surprise with the story itself – only with its design. Therefore, the narrative is extremely simple in the end. The second problem is the performance of Lily–Rose Depp, whose obsession with places is so caricatured that it causes laughter. Sometimes it looks fake, and therefore moments of tension often come to naught. But we must pay tribute to the director, who skillfully created her visual image. Of all the actors, the one I liked the most in the film is Willem Dafoe with his trademark expression. But even here it's worth admitting that this image is not destined to stick in my head as vividly as his madness in The Lighthouse. Just like Eggers' film itself, it is certainly beautiful and aesthetic, it will most likely work in the moment, but his first two will be truly remembered.
If you watch or review Nosferatu, notice how often Nicholas Hoult's character is surrounded by a cross, shown differently against the background.
I didn't even finish it.
Yes, the movie is not scary. If you're waiting for screeners, lots of blood, and other things to happen, then you don't even have to start watching. The plot can be called sluggish, but that's the beauty of it. It oozes slowly from frame to frame, like thickening blood. It's also not worth expecting any novelty and wow plot twists from a film that openly references the classic 1922 film. This is a good remake of an old classic.
I can't say anything bad about the actors' performance either. We played well. Lily Rose Depp played quite in the spirit of her character, and not the actress of the year, but there's nothing to scold her for. Skarsgard was made up from the bottom of his heart, but he's no stranger to it. 😄
Well, and separately I want to poke at some points) First of all, I was amused by the moment when Thomas gives the horse into the hands of a gypsy camp, and in the morning he's like, where's the horse? Secondly, I don't know about the dubbing, but in the original I was amused by Orlok's mystical recitatives, which in the original resembled Sauron's whispers in Elvish.
In general, what can I say if you are ready for a leisurely narrative, where screamers and bloodshed are replaced by a beautiful video sequence, and you generally have nothing against old horror movies - watch. If you are waiting for an active action, unexpected plot twists or - suddenly! - sexy vampires, conquerors of women's hearts, then you can safely not start, so as not to spit when watching 🙂 For myself, I will consider the film to be successful in this genre, although I'm not sure if I'll review it. But I definitely don't regret watching it.
I was also pleased that Eggers tried to squeeze something out of Lily-Rose's acting (and it turned out quite successfully, in my opinion), as he once did with Anya-Taylor, in fact, giving a strong boost to her future career.
I will be waiting with great interest for new works by this undoubtedly talented director.
And the creators clearly made a reference to the bride's corpse.
the first and most important thing that came to mind when watching MUSIC! In Dracula, it's excellent, it responds to the plot as much as possible, but here the music came to me only from the credits.
The costumes and the picture are very typical in Dracula.
Acting - it doesn't even make sense to compare Depp and Ryder, as well as Bill and Gary, the former just has a make-up artist's triumph.
The plot and the script - Why did the hero of Defoe suddenly decide that this was Nosferatu?! Everything was clear in Dracula - Hopkins' hero watched the patient for a long time, that blood transfusions, etc. ... Immediately out of the blue conclusions) The actions of the other characters are also not supported by anything.
Well, it's just an incredibly boring movie where you don't worry about any character. No one's death touches, no one's love cares. Only Defoe is trying to give charisma, and even that is somehow comical and out of place.
I watched it through nehacha until the end
The thing is, Nosferatu and Dracula are the same identical brothers as Pinocchio and Pinocchio, with a few exceptions - Nosferatu did not acquire a literary source. Back in the 1920s, its authors came to Stoker's widow to ask permission for a German adaptation of Dracula, for which they received a beating.
As a result, the movie came out anyway - all the characters just changed their names, the local draculito stopped breeding vampires with bites, but he became afraid of the light (yes, the quality that later began to be attributed to all vampires in the cinema first appeared in the original film of the 20s of the last century), and in the end, the German Mine solved the questions on its own, just fucking a German blood guide to death.
The widow of Bram Stoker looked at this plagiaristic rampage of a cunt, and filed a lawsuit, which ordered the shit to be burned. But a couple of copies survived and for some reason turned into a classic of cinema.
And last year, director Robert Eggers, as a major expert on this very shit (The Witch, the Lighthouse), made a full-fledged remake of the classic. In the role of Nosferatu, moose Bill "Ono" Skarsgard, a well-known lover of steaming in makeup, is now walking around here - he was significantly plastered under the original historical portrait of Vlad Tepes, adding a little rot. Johnny Depp's daughter starred as a woman who, with her pussy suffering, first telepathically woke up Dracula in a coffin, and then forced him to run from Romania to Deutschland with a raised bump. The backup dancers are Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe - they're all fucking pretentious and desperately overdoing it, as befits German expressionists.
In short, I recommend watching it, because it will be one of the most uselessly wasted two hours of your life. Phew, ha.
The Lily-Rose Depp game is just wow
I bow low to the director.
The painting is a masterpiece!!!
After the movie, the anxiety inside is very strong.
Of course, no one could beat Coppola with his Dracula. After all, it turned out to be a whole poem about eternal love through the ages.
Even at the caste level. Taking on the role of a kind of scientist, Willem Dafoe, is already a tradition, almost a meme. I mean, there are no unexpected solutions here. Except for the absolutely vile and unpleasant image of Count Orlok. A kind of mix of images of Nosferatu in 1922 and, in fact, Vlad the Impaler. I think I'm much more impressed with Gary Oldman's Dracula. And having Bill Skarsgard in the cast...
it probably kind of bothers me that the character Lily-Rose Depp, according to the director's idea, has already been in some kind of relationship with the count in the past, and of her own free will. And as if choosing an object of passion would have been more understandable if Orlok had been a little more pleasant. A little less scabs, a little more hair on the head and all that.
Although this whole story of somnambulistic fucking, in my opinion, turned out to be superfluous and only stretches the timing. The final scene of intercourse with a half-decomposed corpse would have been enough for me. By the way, wouldn't this scene be a little less disgusting if a vampire had bitten his maiden in the neck, according to the classics, instead of biting into a persimmon?
And in general, the film causes disgust to a greater extent, but certainly not horror. And maybe he could have hooked me at least a little bit if the characters had aroused my sympathy and sympathy, but for the whole two hours I still couldn't get into it.
Perhaps it was the last frame, Death and Virgo, that impressed me. Beautiful.
As for the rest, the good words seem to have ended. Especially according to the script. It doesn't hold well on the screen, although I can at least sit down right now to review xs some time with much more pleasure. Not as bad as Demeter's Last Trip, but not much better either. It's kind of depressing. The emotional background is generally OK... well, you get it). The feeling of a certain emptiness in what is happening on the screen. And yes, that's the most unpleasant thing when watching. Not even in the sense of sickening, but just disgusting. So it's in the green zone, but not nearly as good as we would like.
Everything in the picture is also very beautiful, the costumes and decorations are wonderful.
At the same time, for the most part, I didn't like the cast at all. Subjectively, in my opinion, Lily-Rose is not beautiful and repulsive. Her antics in some of the scenes looked absolutely absurd.
Nicholas Hoult couldn't handle his role either, I think. He already has very little screen time, and he did not take out that moment of glory in Orlovka Castle, he could not convey the horror of the character.
Who I liked was Aaron - he looks organic in his role, plays convincingly and well.
I liked Orlok himself. He is vile, repulsive, his mustache and forelock, which would look comical in any other film, but the antagonists do not add to this comicality. A colorful character.
The Qigans and the Orthodox also came out very well and naturally, for which I was very impressed by the film at those moments.
But the plot is very sad. He's incoherent, illogical, and strained.
Overall, the film turned out to be very controversial. For me, there are both extremely negative and positive aspects here.
It's probably something between 6 and 7, definitely not more.
Besides, the choice of Lily-Rose Depp for the role of Ellen Hutter seemed to me unfortunate. Maybe it's a taste, but I don't like it at all and it only causes rejection. There are no questions for the other actors. Nicholas Hoult and Willem Dafoe are as good as ever. And I didn't recognize Bill Skarsgard as Orlok at all. Although the fact that he got a mustache and a forelock like Taras Bulba in the remake looks strange. I wouldn't recommend this movie to everyone, but if you don't know the plot of "Dracula" at all, then you can try it. At least the visual in the movie is great.
On the plus side, the promised atmosphere of gloom was obtained. And that's it.
And you can talk about the cons for a long time.
1. Sobsno Nosferatu. There was no stage here, there was an image of Dracula that everyone already knows + the work of makeup artists. Visually, I have no way, I doubt very much that the Transylvanian nobleman looked like a retired Cossack hetman. This moth-eaten sheepskin coat and flesh scabs caused not a trembling horror, but a desire to bypass the tenth road, like a stinking homeless man, God forgive me.
2. Depp - above, for the most part, has already said everything, she has outplayed herself. The wig was clumsily stuck on her head, and the scenes of obsession did not inspire fear or fright at the unknown, but rather the neighing from the convulsions of a drug addict in withdrawal.
3. Holt is a fresh substance.
4. The others did something, but they couldn't fix the overall impression.
I was especially pleased with the final scene, which is the culmination of Hollywood's inability to show anything between people other than actual sex.
Otherwise, in order to form my own more specific opinion, I had to watch Dracula Coppola for the first time - the case when everything is learned in comparison. There's logic, motivation, and depth to each character. And in the finale, the most important message is that love is eternal.
I expected something else, I didn't like the plot, but I liked the cast and the beautiful picture. Emma Corrine 💔
I hardly regret the time I spent
I saw Lily-Rose Depp play for the first time and how good she is. People who don't like it are clearly watching dubbing and don't know what seizures look like)
And that everyone had the same sound and healthy sleep as he did. Then you wake up from every rustle, and they push him and at least whine. Envy.
My mistake. Inattention . I noticed it only after watching it again.
Visually, it's a buzz. Actors - does exactly what is required of them
The only good thing here is the wonderful Bill Skarsgard. Well, how good he is! I like him more and more.
Robert Eggers is a director, which means a well—honed atmosphere with unhurried scenes, unitary color selection and, of course, with a careful attitude to antiquity and aesthetics.
Bill Skarsgard is a villain — this means a new vivid image in the piggy bank of a talented Swedish family with an incredible accent (without using AI) and an oppressive face.
One of the roles fell to Willem Dafoe, which means his soul is invested in the picture and he knows what he signed up for.
And I swear to you, this is a story about how a woman wanted sex without commitment, committed a sin and brought disease and death to the city. In fact, I believe that such a story in the 18th century in Germany went from house to house for the sake of scaring aristocratic girls of puberty age. Like, don't you dare go out with Josef, he hasn't married you yet, do you want to repeat the fate of Helen Hutter? From what it seems, the author conveyed the whole story in an extremely authentic and downright meticulously perfect way, which is even difficult to find something new in this, but in the era of remaking everything that lies around, it is good that there are films with canon and sustainability.
🧛♂️The music, the shooting angles, the scenery, the costumes, everything is created by the orchestra of the soul, there is no snow, rain and clouds outside the window, and I doubly find myself feeling depressed about the imminent approach of the plague. How can you convey a rich range of feelings — wow, I applaud.
Count Orlok is powerfully built, from his manner of speech to his appearance, it seemed to me that he was only a little, I wanted to get more and more into his philosophy, but his every appearance became a horror and incredible style!
Eggers uses harsh sound effects, complex footage, and menacing horror to bring such a dark and evil film to life.
The excellent makeup of Count Orloc, under which Bill Skarsgard cannot be recognized.
Overall, it's a good movie with very good acting.
I will not spread my thoughts along the tree. I only have two questions after watching Nosferatu. Nah... me, and most importantly, why? Well, really. Now I would like to shoot a direct film adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel, hiding behind a remake of a century-old painting.
For those who don't know, I'll quickly clarify the situation: a little over a hundred years ago, the Germans wanted to make a film adaptation of Dracula. Stoker's widow refused. Director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, who was charged with filming, promptly rewrote the script, replacing Dracula with Count Orlok (and the names of the other actors), the location - from Great Britain to Germany, the time of action - from the end of the nineteenth century to the thirties of the same century, and slightly changed the ending (it was thanks to Murnau that vampires became deathly afraid of the sun light). The silent horror film managed to spread quickly around the world and gain cult status before the widow came to her senses and forced the German film studio to burn all the films with the film by court order. The studio did not survive this, but, of course, not all reels were destroyed. The long arm of the law was not so long. In general, these are nuances. Anyway, the film could have been watched in the middle of the last century, when it was "reassembled", and even more so now. The copyright period for Dracula ended a long time ago, and already in the 1978 version by Werner Herzog called Nosferatu - the Ghost of the Night, all the characters bore the names familiar from the literary work: Dracula, Van Helsing, Jonathan and Mina Harker, etc.
Now imagine that in 2025 you are shown a version of Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula" starring Gary Oldman, from which the Grinch stole all the colors, all the actors are godlessly overplaying, and for some reason the characters have left-wing names. I hoped that the critically acclaimed Robert Eggers, director of "The Witch" and "The Lighthouse," would bring something new to a familiar story. By the way, in my opinion, of the contemporaries that Mike Flanagan ("Doctor Sleep", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "Ghosts of the House on the Hill"), that Ari Luster ("Reincarnation", "Solstice"), when it comes to horror, everything is much scarier, and this one comes at the expense of "Oh, that's the mainstream slop, and I have an art house here for ultramarine aesthetes!". But the only thing Eggers came up with, besides covering up with names from the original Nosferatu, was to bring Jonathan Harker's wife (sorry, Thomas Hutter) into the spotlight, giving Ellen more screen time, and twist and turn the whole plot around female sexuality and sexual abuse, where the roles of victims and abusers change back and forth.. And it turns out quite well for a while (however, I still didn't understand the prologue - where did this sudden mental connection come from out of nowhere? Answer: from there. Question: why? Answer: patamushta), until Lily-Rose Depp decides that she is up to Isabel Adjani with her acting talents, and for some reason begins cosplaying her scenes from "Possessed" by Polish director Andrzej Zulawski (this film, and specifically the scene in transition, is often quoted in recent times). It's horrible. In a bad way. It's painful to watch. Almost in a physical sense. It would be nice if the topic of sex was new to the genre, but vampires and eroticism almost always went hand in hand. Take the same version of Coppola, where one of Dracula's brides was the whole Monica Bellucci. And, by the way, Ajani did play in the last remake of Nosferatu.
However, Rose is not the only one who is acting strangely. Throughout the second half of the film, it generally gives the impression of a theatrical production in which something went wrong - well, for example, all its participants were drugged with disturbing synthetic substances. Everyone is goggling, yelling, and salivating at the camera. However, Nicholas Hoult (the local Harker) is no stranger to it, as is Willem Dafoe (the local Van Helsing), so they do it more or less organically, but with the help of Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who lost his entire family in the story, you can break your nose with the palm of your hand from a sudden facepalm.
Well, with all due respect to Skarsgard (you need to look at at least fragments in the English version to understand what he did with his voice), outwardly this is also some kind of misunderstanding that causes only laughter. Congratulations to Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, who have released more terrifying vampires in the comedy "Real Ghouls" (which is in the feature film, which is in the series). Yes, the TV Nandor of the local Count Orlok. I understand that Oldman's appearance (hairstyle, for example) was mocked at the time. And Mel Brooks, and the Simpsons. And, yes, I understand that the costumers and make-up artists wanted to recreate the image of the Romanian nobleman of the fifteenth (or whatever?) centuries. But here, Grandma and candybober are really sitting in the shadows. Or the heroes of the clips "No more parties" from Cream Soda with the "Star" from the Invisible band (Google it, yes). Is that what I should be afraid of?
Throughout the film, I felt like my time was being stolen (and, apparently, my mental strength, like the energy vampire Colin Robinson). I even said out loud in the middle of watching it, "I don't understand why we're watching this. I don't understand why they took it off. There's a Dracula. And my wife is like, "I thought I was the only one with such thoughts..."
Why retake a hundred thousand times digested story without qualitative changes? Well, that is, it's obvious that no one from modern viewers will be able to watch that very "Nosferatu" in an adequate state (I don't take into account film school students and all sorts of cinephiles), and Coppola's "Dracula" mentioned more than once is already thirty years old, but, damn... Even the actors from the same movie were filmed (some quite recently!) in near-vampire projects that were better. Holt had the comedy "Renfield" with Cage-Dracula (by the way, a great black comedy with good action scenes), Skarsgard had the series "Hemlock Grove", Defoe had how much? - four tapes on this topic? Moreover, Defoe has one of the films, Shadow of the Vampire, with an awesome concept: an alternative version of the story of the filming of Nosferatu, in which director Murnau finds a real vampire to shoot him in his film, which is why Nosferatu came out so frightening and realistic for its time. Isn't it cool? There is, on the one hand, a remake (many frames are accurately reproduced), and, on the other, a great original idea that plays on the semi-legendary status of the painting. In general, in my opinion, Eggers came dangerously close to the approach of Gus Van Sant, who in the nineties decided to retake Hitchcock's "Psycho" frame by frame.
Again, I suspect that Eggers' idea was to make a horror film as close in spirit and tone as possible to those that were filmed in the twenties of the 20th century. And from a visual point of view, everything is wonderful here. In the first half, there is also a pressing feeling of being half asleep. However, then half a nap can be replaced by real sleep and even your snoring. Well, you can't be so straightforward and not play with the Dracula myth in any way, pretending that there were no other films and works before that. The viewer, who has not even watched a single vampire movie, will still feel the torment and lack of ideas of this story. Judge for yourself: recently, for example, "The Journey of Demeter" has been released - a separate film dedicated to one chapter from Stoker's book, about how Dracula sailed to London. I didn't really rate him, but even he looks fresher, and before that, Steven Moffat dedicated an entire episode to this in his Dracula series! Or "Renfield," which takes a new look at Dracula's weak-willed servant, who decides to fight back after all. Or the same "Abigail," who was actually called "Dracula's Daughter" when she was a girl. It all came out not so long ago and is in the field of view of the layman. And the authors of each of these films are at least trying to bring something new - someone more successfully - to the thoroughly studied and well-known vampire world. Yes, take the same "Sinners" of Kugler - it would seem that "From dusk till dawn" is about blacks, but it looks fresh.
In general, Eggers again got into his favorite themes of folklore, myths and costumed fantasy, but slipped on ambition and fell into the cesspool of despondency.
P.S. Perhaps if Anya Taylor-Joy had played in the film instead of Depp, as originally planned, the picture would have turned out better.
Rating: 4 alucards out of 10
What an amazing picture
It looks different from other movies
I am surprised by the comments that Dracula is not like that and does not look like that at all. People probably keep in mind the sugary, uninteresting Bessonian Dracula. I watched Nosferatu after the creation of Besson and what a breath of fresh air it is. Thanks for the movie.