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‘Nosferatu’ Review: Robert Eggers’ Gothic Romance Is A Perverse, Technically Brilliant Tango With Death

In Eggers’ version, however, there is a broader conspiracy at play, which is why Orlok — a near-ringer for 15th-century despot Vlad the Impaler — proffers a deceptive foreign-language contract, locks Thomas in his empty, decaying home and sets sail to be reunited with Ellen. Just as they returned to Murnau’s original (which, for years on scruffy VHS copies, must have looked like a supernatural snuff movie), they’ll be drawn to something not much seen in mainstream horror, a tango with death that is perverse but strangely compelling and, in some quarters, possibly — dare one even imagine it? Title: Nosferatu Distributor: Focus Features Release date: 25 December 2024 Director/screenwriter: Robert Eggers Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney Rating: R Running time: 2 hr 12 mins

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