A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
Cinematically and amospherically this movie is indeed beautiful. Especially those night filters on camera and the shadows on the walls etc. is a big nod to the predecessor.
The short summary on the IMDb basically scratches the surface of the storyline, but does not touch upon the meaning that could be interpreted from the circumstances Ellen finds herself in.
On the surface it's a story of Ellen Hutter, who, relatively simply speaking, finds herself not like others, as if there is something more about her. But her oddities only make her more isolated and even feared by her parent, they continue and the feeling of isolation makes her seek something out there to be her company. Instead she awakens an ancient evil - Nosferatu. By her call they form a sort of pact.
It seemingly ends when Ellen is married to Thomas, but does this pact fully disappear?
To make their lives better Thomas agrees to travel in person to count Orlok and deal with the purchase of the estate. But it all is just a trap to make Thomas sign the deed in language he does not understand.
All after that Orlok cares about is to go and find the one who belonged to him once. Through sheer manipulation he makes Ellen to agree to him "willingly" and Ellen sacrifices herself just to lift the curse of Nosferatu on the plague-infested city.
Under the surface you can feel that it's a bit of metaphor for the female sexuality of that period and even now. That something is lurking beneath her skin, but it is claimed to be sin and that she should be ashamed of it, not something natural that women should feel.
This is to put things simply. I think anyone should just explore the movie for themselves, if they'd like to give it a chance.
Now about the details.
The camera work I think is fantasic.
The visuals are great too, although the movie feels so dark at times. But the atmosphere is truly great.
Even if that city is a fiction, but most of what was shown was pretty accurate. The locations especially feel incredible. Of course everything is filtered like the color was sucked out of that movie, but still the locations are beautiful and accurate.
Actor's work is fantastic, Lily-Rose especially nailed it, she did not shy away from anything and became the true heroin of this movie.
I'm surprised to find that Skarsgard played the count Orlok. You can't see him behind the heavy sfx make-up, he also speaks with that accent and he speaks so slowly and wheezes all the time. Everything pointed out that he's a second aways from kicking the bucket. But he is death and plague, he is a walking rotting corpse that is somehow alive. But I feel pity I saw him fully before watching the movie. All thanks to YT, otherwise it wouldn't be YT, if something was not spoilered there. I feel pity because the trailer I watched at first kept his image fully concealed, even in the movie for a good deal of time you can't clearly see him, because he's like a shadow. The only thing that made me crack up is that accent and the hair, because I can't unthink the radish. It reminds me of Cossacks and actually it has one of the beliefs about that hair, so it will be easier for God to pull you out. But orlok is a fully bad villain with no redeeming qualities mind you. He is fully manipulative and he makes you think there is no love from his side actually, no matter how many times he claims the opposite.
In conclusion it's a cool-looking gothic tale, which is quite gruesome and bloody.
RATE: 7/10. It's my personal opinion that they should tone down some of the eroticism. Not all of it was okay with me.
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