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Robert Eggers wants you to see his Nosferatu as both a lover and a biter

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Summary
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Robert Eggers' new Nosferatu is brimming with visual and tonal nods to F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent film.

The director wanted his film to be as erotic as it was haunting.

He also wanted it to feel like a decidedly feminist, macabre romance, which is why he took inspiration from Emily Brontë .

Nosferatu leans into the fact that creatures like Orlok feast on the blood of the living because they themselves are very dead.

There's also an increasingly orgasmic quality to the sound of Ellen ’s fits that immediately clues you into how, as scary as the scary vampire is, he also elicits something deeply pleasurable in some of his victims.

VR Score

42

Informative language

30

Neutral language

43

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

55

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offensive

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medium-lived

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