In a transition between the use and non-use of color, Eggers makes this film a dreamlike experience between dream and waking. The warm pastel colors accompanied by cold black and white help to create a surreal atmosphere.
Eggers performs a truly masterful directorial game that leaves the viewer somewhere between amazed and stunned; Eggers is one of those directors who can do it and does it. He is one of those directors who never seems to miss a shot, and Nosferatu is the latest of his masterpieces. Eggers returns to direct, write, and produce, accompanied by the inevitable Jarin Blaschke for photography.
Bill Skargård is amazing in the part of Count Orlok; the make-up and interpretation are spine-chilling. This is a role that certainly did not benefit his vocal cords. Lily-Rose Depp was something incredible and a note of merit also goes to Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Willem Dafoe is Willem Dafoe.
Talking about the actors is important, but I would like to focus on the product itself; Nosferatu is a tribute work to the entire cinema and to its namesake from 1922. This in turn was a tribute/freeboot of the famous Dracula by Stoker. This tribute from 2024 however matures and accentuates its terror and tension, changing small details here and there from the one from 1922. By highlighting some points from Stoker’s work, Eggers creates a true jewel of horror and cinema in general.
