nosferatu – Moe Lane

Robert Eggers’s next Focus movie will be called WERWULF.

Gee, I wonder what that will be about? “Robert Eggers is reteaming with Focus Features after the phenomenal success of Nosferatu becoming the studio’s second highest grossing movie stateside with $90.5M behind Downton Abbey, and that is with the new genre movie Werwulf.”

Via Geek Tyrant. If you like horror movies at all, do not sleep on NOSFERATU. It is a good vampire flick, solidly based in its time period. I assume that WERWULF will be the same way, and that it will not be a happy-shiny werewolf movie. Eggars doesn’t roll that way.

#commissionearned

My mini-review of NOSFERATU.

Short version: I liked it a good deal, but if you’re not into seeing a movie explore the idea of vampirism simultaneously being a metaphor for kinky sex and disease, well…

The Intriguing NOSFERATU trailer.

It’s… I’m not entirely sure I want to take my kid to see NOSFERATU. It might be a touch weird for him to watch it with his dad. It’s got a complicated vibe about sexuality, death, and desire going on there.

But we might go see it at different times.

Hey, they’re remaking NOSFERATU.

“They” being “Robert Eggers.” Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I find the original NOSFERATU a bit of a slog. I don’t want to, but it’s difficult for me to get into some of the oldest movies. Which was one reason* why I liked SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE so much; it made the original more accessible to me. So I don’t mind the idea of a remake at all. It should be wonderfully creepy.

Mind you, it’s gonna be a few years before it comes out.

Moe Lane

*The other reason is just so utterly jaded the Weimar filmmakers were in the film. The aforementioned vampire is not even close to the weirdest, or most disturbing, thing those people had seen. It’s a great flick.