Nosferatu
2024
***½
Director: Robert Eggers
Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Willem Dafoe, Emma Corrin, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, Daniel Malik, Aaron Monaghan
In 1838, newlywed German realtor Thomas Hutter must travel to Transylvania to seal a real estate deal with Count Orlok and leave behind his troubled wife Ellen, who appears to have a psychic bond to the Count. Robert Eggers' fourth film is a remake of F. W. Murnau's 1922 silent film, which itself was an unauthorised adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. Like Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 adaptation of the novel, this is a stylised and visually sumptuous retelling of a very familiar story. There are some strong performances, but Aaron Taylor-Johnson feels totally out of place in the period setting.
