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Nosferatu’s Final Moment Is an Act of Consent
In deliberately weaponizing her body, Nosferatu’s Ellen becomes her own hero.
And while the monstrous mermaid in The Lighthouse isn’t a fully fledged character, her mixture of aggression and sensuality toward wickie Ephraim Winslow is one of the film’s defining motifs, a representation of both the allure and unknowability of the natural world and, maybe, of a woman’s mind. A century ago, Ellen was a woman consumed by a vague sense of danger awaiting her husband on his business trip, and then increasingly enthralled by Nosferatu once he sees a small portrait of her amid Thomas’s things. The “virgin on horseback” (Katerina Bila), whom Thomas follows to a Romanian cemetery, guides a vampire hunter to the “unclean spirit” the villagers are going to exhume and kill; she grips the reins with her head held high, a leader rather than an offering.
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