Robert Eggers's Nosferatu remake

As I've muttered elsewhere, a side benefit of seeing the kinda choppy/strange Bikeriders this weekend is that the trailer for Nosferatu ran in front of it, as it's only running that way (officially) for this weekend. Unsurprisingly looked pretty great! So, might as well kick off a thread for it...

This might prove to have wide popular appeal, but I don't see how anyone anyone can improve on Murnau's Nosferatu (1922) and Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

I really loved The Witch and The Lighthouse, they are two of my all-time favorite films, but The Northman was a big disappointment to me, it was too comic-book bombastic.

This sounds like a good fit for him and maybe it will be great, but I'm now suspicious of the direction he's turning in

And here we go with the trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b59rxDB_JRg

i'm not hostile to sequels or remakes so the idea of it "improving upon" the other incarnations doesn't really factor in for me at all. this is probably gonna look and atmospherically feel so badass imo, perfect meeting of director and material/mise-en-scène

i loved the northman tho, impossible for me to resist hallucinatory dicks-out viking hamlet

i read a long new york profile of eggers that suggested the northman suffered from a lot of studio interference, not that i could necessarily see it in the final product. but it made me admire eggers' method all the more

yeah I know some here were sour on NOrthman but that shit was my wheelhouse.

looking forward to this and tricking mom into seeing this on Christmas

"It's about a savior who has arrived to release us all from our lives of misery."

"That sounds nice!"

also no one makes vampire movies anymore. i’ve been starving (for blood)

was actually surprised at the number of mainstream Dracula-affiliated films last year, regardless of the quality of them

i guess there was renfield (terrible) and last voyage of the demeter (boring, except for the dope winged and desiccated dracula design)

those were the two I was thinking of.

Abigail was middling vampire fare. Better than Renfield, anyway.

I loved Abigail

I want to see Abigail and Last Voyage of the Demeter, but I'm not sure about this movie given that we already have Nosferatu, Herzog's Nosferatu, and Shadow of the Vampire, all of which rule. Plus, I'm kind of lukewarm on Eggers in general: loved The VVitch, skipped The Lighthouse because I don't like Robert Pattinson, and thought The Northman was...not great. Right now this looks to me like, what if Coppola's Dracula was neither funny nor fun?

Your last point definitely comes to mind; this film feels a little more in conversation with that than the other Nosferatus.

The Murnau film is one of my forever favorites so I’m intrigued. Especially after poring over this trailer shot by shot. Dome cool stuff in there ( Harker surrounded by nuns(?), an ornate stone coffin…)
There’s the classic “Nosferatu in the castle hallway” shot but this time he’s got two wolves (!!) at his side. And another cool, quick shot of the vampire biting someone aboard the ship. Coppola feel is certainly there but I think this may be a fun take.

*Some cool shots

We don't see Orlok's dome clearly enough, unfortunately

Da-dome!

I like a lot about The Northman, especially the cinematography and the complex way that many of the scenes were filmed.

There are some classic vampire films, including Louis Feuillade's classic silent film serial Les Vampires (1915–16), which was remade into the comedy-drama Irma Vep by Olivier Assayas starring Maggie Cheung in 1996, and then into a great miniseries by him starring Alicia Vikander in 2022.

Also, Carl Theodore Dreyer’s Vampyr (1932) was an astonishing film

Hate ro be a pedant but there were no vampires in the Feuillade.

i feel like the things that didnt work for me about The Lighthouse (all vibes, no story) could be strengths in a Nosferatu remake, optimistic about this

Hate ro be a pedant but there were no vampires in the Feuillade.

― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, June 25, 2024 3:05 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Fine degrees of pedantry: Les Vampires are a gang of criminals, but they use vampire imagery to further scare the public.

For my part I wait to see if Eggers includes anything like the night Hutter arrives at Orlok's place (Orlok was totally hitting on him!).

Slightly disappointed that this is still basically Dracula, I always felt Orlok deserved his own stories.

Orlok and the Chamber of Secrets wait hold on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nulvWqYUM8k

lets fucking go :D

Also, Guillermo Del Toro wrapped shooting on his "Frankenstein." And Leigh Whannell has a "Wolf Man" coming out next year. The Dark Universe(tm) is alive!!!!

hell yes to all of that

trailer is pretty ambiguous, but I'm down to give it a shot

I emailed a radio 'year-end movie roundup' program about why The Northman didn't succeed despite its impeccable direction, and the critic opined that the weird/toxic dude energy of the film was maybe not reflecting the cultural moment of its release date

The trailer is giving very straight (non-epistolary) adaptation of the novel vibes. Also a few echoes of Coppola's.

Funny timing in that regard.

Murnau’s Nosferatu movie was also an unofficial adaptation of the novel iirc (so much so that Stoker’s wife sued!)

In related happy news, Alamo's 1979 screening series for September/October means I'll get a chance to see Herzog's version on a big screen in a couple of Saturdays.

The Dark Universe(tm) is alive!!!!

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, October 1, 2024 12:41 AM (seventeen hours ago)

I thought you were joking but I can only see the new Wolfman listed as a part of that. Frankenstein seems to be made for Netflix.

This whole dark universe thing sounds bad and I don't think the crossovers worked that well in the black and white era of Universal. Didn't Del Toro leave previous attempts to do things like this?

This whole dark universe thing sounds bad and I don't think the crossovers worked that well in the black and white era of Universal.

Well, of course it would be much better if we had a modern-day Abbott and Costello to "meet" these new monsters.

Harold & Kumar meet Frankenstein, Key & Peele meet Dracula, Tim & Eric meet Wolfman

Why not cgi Abbott & Costello?

20 years ago a Keenan & Kel Meet Dracula movie would have ruled.

Eric Andre meets the Creature from the Black Lagoon

Eric Andre *as* the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Eric Andre fucks the Creature from the Black Lagoon

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