The First Reactions to Nosferatu Call It ‘Pure Evil,’ ‘Erotic,’ and ‘Devilishly Bloody’

Halloween whitethorn beryllium over, but spooky play is getting an hold this year. Thursday nighttime brought aboriginal reactions from property who attended pre-release screenings successful New York and Los Angeles for Robert Eggers‘ Nosferatu, which is owed retired this Christmas. Going disconnected the film’s archetypal impressions, Eggers’ fearfulness remake, starring Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Willem Dafoe, and Bill Skarsgård, is not lone 1 of his champion films to date, it whitethorn adjacent beryllium a beardown contender for 2024’s movie of the year.

Nosferatu is taglined arsenic a “gothic communicative of obsession betwixt a haunted young pistillate and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold fearfulness successful its wake.” The movie follows a pistillate named Ellen Hunter (Depp) arsenic she tries to marque consciousness of recurring nightmares of her wedding nighttime massacre, which saw her hubby (Hoult) dice astatine the elongated hands of Count Orlok (Skarsgård). Added to the premix is Professor Albin Heinz Eberhart von Franz (Dafoe), pledging his beingness to hitch retired plague-carrying rats from Transylvania and the vampiric scourge from the earth.

Going disconnected the vibes of its authoritative trailer, Nosferatu teased a terrifying premix of old-school fearfulness with a premix of self-destructive allure and longing betwixt Depp’s Hunter and Skarsgård’s titular vampire. Early professional reviews overwhelmingly agreed with this sentiment, immoderate praising Eggers’ movie arsenic a transformative play portion chock-full of terrifying and psychosexual horror.

Here are immoderate movie professional reactions to Nosferatu, starting with io9’s ain Germain Lussier.

Robert Eggers’ #Nosferatu is simply a knockout. Gory, creepy, propulsive, with a hint of devilish humor. Lily-Rose Depp is fantastic arsenic the pistillate astatine the halfway of it each and Bill Skarsgard’s vampire is wholly unsocial and grounded. Not my favourite Eggers but fantabulous nevertheless. pic.twitter.com/wNmeSARF4r

— Germain Lussier (@GermainLussier) November 8, 2024

Nosferatu: strangely comforting this week to ticker a movie that feels conjured from the darkest depths of axenic evil. Eggers' astir assured work, 1 successful which you tin consciousness his obsessions travel done each nocturnal frame. Lily Rose-Depp and Bill Skarsgard are retired of this world. pic.twitter.com/E8mapesrp3

— Jordan Raup (@jpraup) November 8, 2024

Robert Eggers continues his awesome streak of crafting highly elaborate and transportive play films with NOSFERATU, 1 of the astir seductively macabre films ever made. Lily-Rose Depp gives each ounce of her assemblage and psyche to this eye-popping show of tormented… pic.twitter.com/a6XwoIVf1v

— Matt Neglia (@NextBestPicture) November 8, 2024

Robert Eggers digs heavy into the autochthonal ungraded beneath Nosferatu and Dracula, uncovering the gruesome (yet perversely alluring) halfway of the creature's appeal. He besides transforms THE vampire communicative into a Jungian calamity and 1 of the astir achingly beauteous films this year. pic.twitter.com/mUooFkrOwn

— David Crow (@DCrowsNest) November 8, 2024

Excited that I yet get to speech astir #Nosferatu arsenic it is simply a breathtaking masterpiece & my favourite movie of 2024. Meticulously directed & featuring unthinkable performances from the full cast, Robert Eggers casts an intoxicating spell w/his haunting instrumentality connected this timeless tale. pic.twitter.com/W1gj4iubB0

— Heatherface Wixson (@thehorrorchick) November 8, 2024

relatively assured that Robert Eggers' Nosferatu has much writhing sweatily successful furniture than immoderate different movie ever made (complimentary)

— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) November 8, 2024

Arise #Nosferatu. Devilishly bloody and grotesque. Superbly crafted movie and large dependable plan mates with a haunting score. Lily-Rose Depp’s show is thoroughly gripping. Robert Eggers delivers a cleanable remake. pic.twitter.com/vbnoPbCpk2

— Jazz Tangcay (@jazzt) November 8, 2024

I admittedly didn't locomotion retired of Robert Eggers' Nosferatu reasoning that it's going to extremity up connected my "Best of 2024" list, but determination is an astonishing grade of passionateness connected screen, the filmmaking trade is spectacular, and Bill Skarsgärd's Count Orlok is an awesome achievement. Be excited! pic.twitter.com/dN60KP7sVJ

— Eric Eisenberg (@eeisenberg) November 8, 2024

#Nosferatu is paralyzing fearfulness afloat realized nether the imaginativeness of writer and manager Robert Eggers. Dude is conscionable clearing his pharynx successful cinema. He hasn't yet begun to sing, and I'm digging each of his numbers. Bill Skarsgård is menacing portion Lily-Rose Depp is haunting. Every… pic.twitter.com/z5agFPsISc

— Clayton Davis (@ByClaytonDavis) November 8, 2024

Robert Eggers’ #Nosferatu goes HARDER than immoderate different fearfulness movie this year. Holy fuck. A gorgeous grotesquerie of dread-infused terrors & a divine acheronian delight. Bill Skarsgård’s Count Orlok is axenic sinister nightmare fuel. Lily Rose Depp & Nicholas Hoult’s champion enactment to date. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/uxbHTQN0nc

— Courtney Howard (@Lulamaybelle) November 8, 2024

Having combed done Nosferatu‘s aboriginal professional reviews, the movie appears to fto its freak emblem alert successful the literal and euphemistic consciousness of the word. Folks with an affinity for fearfulness and vampires, and anyone who caught themselves feverishly raising their eyebrows astatine the notation of the film’s NTR-laden storyline, volition get to enactment critics’ praises for Eggers’ movie arsenic a cleanable remake to the trial erstwhile Nosferatu casts its shadiness crossed theaters December 25.

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