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‘Nosferatu’ (2024) is a Grim Ballet of Terror with a Hidden Message

Robert Eggers-directed Gothic Film Modernizes Classic Horror in Haunting Fashion While Honoring Its Legacy

Yusuf Ali
Counter Arts
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5 min readJan 13, 2025

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Focus Features/Universal Pictures (via IMDb)

Remakes of Hollywood classics have always challenged filmmakers as critics and fans pre-subscribe to the notion that the original work will always be superior and the remake can not replicate the nostalgia established by the original work. However, director Robert Eggers demonstrates his filmmaking mastery by balancing admiration for F.W. Murnau’s German Classic Nosferatu (1922) and infusing the remake with contemporary storytelling sensibilities. Led by versatile Swedish actor Bill Skarsgård in the titular role of the villainous nobleman vampire and the gothic re-imagination of Robert Eggers, Nosferatu (2024) is one of the finest horror remakes of recent years that thrives off of incredible performances, direction, cinematography, and thoughtful social commentary.

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror was a German silent Expressionist horror film released in 1922, directed by F. W. Murnau. An unofficial German adaptation of the classic Gothic horror novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, Muranu’s silent film brought Stoker’s timeless story to German…

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