Probably high up the list of any Outposter’s list of most anticipated movies this Christmas is Robert Eggers’ adaption of Nosferatu. The professional reviews are now in and the news is good.
The reimagining of F.W. Murnau’s silent German feature from 1922 feature stars Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, and Willem Dafoe.
According to the go-to aggregators online, Nosferatu now sits at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes and 80/100 on Metacritic. So what do the reviews say? To the summary pages!
“This is an elaborate, detailed love letter to the original, intelligently respectful and faithful.”
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“It’s thrilling to experience a movie so assured in the way it builds and sustains fear, so hypnotically scary as it grabs you by the throat and never lets go.”
David Rooney, THR
“Eggers reinterprets Murnau’s seminal work as a psychosexual gothic tragedy that transforms this adaptation into a mesmeric macabre masterpiece.”
Meagan Navarro, Bloody Disgusting
“This Count Orlock is a gruesome monstrosity, gnawed on and gnarled, as repulsive as movie monsters get. But he is now also that sexual creature, a hypermasculine 1970s porn star, as virile as he is virulent.”
William Bibbiani, The Wrap
“Bloodcurdling to the last delicious drop, Nosferatu is extraordinarily compelling, one of the best films of the year, and an unforgettable, phantasmagoric experience for theaters that will astonish.”
Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist
“What really separates Eggers’ Nosferatu from the flock is how deeply it explores the images and themes of vampire lore. There aren’t many Dracula films that give you so much to sink your teeth into.
Nicholas Barber, BBC
Is it all breathlessly positive? Well… not quite.
“Sumptuously realized and terminally self-serious, it’s the culmination of everything Eggers has been working towards in his career so far — for better and for worse.”
Katie Rife, AV Club
“Nosferatu builds to a tragic finale, but is weighed down by pretentious dialogue, somnolent pacing and weak performances, especially that of Lily-Rose Depp as the doomed damsel”
Peter DeBruge, Variety
Really hate your family? Then escape from them this Christmas Day and go see Nosferatu on the day it is released.