Nosferatu

Oh no, not another Nosferatu movie, although to be fair, you don’t need to have seen Nosferat-one to enjoy this. FW Murnau’s silent version has never quite gone away as a pop-culture icon, but Werner Herzog already exhumed the horrible vampire Court Orlock in 1979, and since all versions of Nosferatu are actually unofficial, off-brand rip-offs of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, one of the most frequently filmed stories of all time, what new things are there to say about vampires? Writer and director Robert Eggers is certainly an original, big-name, high-concept talent, but the sure comic touch which elevated his bonkers The Lighthouse eludes him in this long, slow reworking of themes (real estate transactions! upward mobility!) from the original film, meshed with a lurid new take on female sexuality that doesn’t quite gel with the other elements….