• Unruffled [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    No problem. It was good, they are all quality actors and the direction from Eggers was on point. I was kind of wondering though whether we really need another classic-style vampire movie, because there’s nothing particularly interesting or new about the retelling of the story in terms of content, despite its excellent production quality. But sometimes that’s maybe enough? :)

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      14 days ago

      Huh, I felt the opposite. It felt refreshing to see this truly undead vampire instead of some sort of “human in every way but drinks blood” vampire

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          13 days ago

          I haven’t but I fail to see why a 100 year old film is relevant to current films? My comment only works because they went with a remake of a monster movie. I specifically found it to be refreshing because it was a new movie falling back to that older formula.

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            13 days ago

            It’s relevant because the new film is a remake of that 100 year old film, that’s why I mentioned it and noted that there’s not much that’s innovative about it.

            Nosferatu is a 2024 American Gothic horror film written and directed by Robert Eggers. It is a remake of the film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922), itself an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897).

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              9 days ago

              I know the origin. My point is that doing something monstrous with vampires instead of making them some misunderstood character or a hot anti-hero is REFRESHING AND DIFFERENT. You don’t need to innovate to do either of those things. In fact I think it’s even more impressive that they chose to remake a silent film and do it as well as they did. Bill Skarsgard was creepy AF.