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Shouldn’t Nosferatu Be Scarier?
Lily Rose-Depp stars in a vampire movie from The Witch director Robert Eggers that’s gorgeous and weirdly inert.
When possessed by the immortal vampire she unknowingly promised herself to as a lonesome girl, Depp performs some incredible physical feats, twisting her spine, contorting her face in an impossible grimace, and rolling her eyes back in her head in a display of supernatural interference that’s entirely practical. Hoult’s stricken face swimming in the dark, eyes wide and wet, gives Nosferatu a burst of the urgency it otherwise lacks, as Orlok sets off to Germany on a doomed ship, and as the skeptical Friedrich (a nicely snippy Aaron Taylor-Johnson), Ellen’s brother, searches for a medical treatment for his sister’s increasingly unmanageable fits. But a glimpse of Simon McBurney, as Orlok’s familiar, crouched nude while performing a dark ritual in the center of the frame just brought to mind a similar shot in Eggers’ breakthrough, in which a witch is seen from behind preparing flying ointment with the help of a devastating ingredient.
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