Description
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
Released: | 25 December 2024 |
Country of origin: | US |
Genre: | Drama, Horror/Supernatural, Fantasy |
Production companies: | Focus Features, Studio 8, Maiden Voyage Pictures, Birch Hill Road Entertainment |
Watched by: | 5 277 of 934 926 |
Runtime: | 2 hours 12 minutes |
IMDB rating: | 7.2 of 10 208 490 |
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.
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.