Tag: Nosferatu

Monday Morning Movie Review: Nosferatu (2024)

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My older brother and I saw Nosferatu (2024) a couple of days after its release, which was on Christmas Day 2024.  We attended a 12:30 PM EST showing on Friday, 27 December 2024, and even that early matinee had a very good crowd.

My brother and I had been anticipating the release of this film with an eagerness we rarely experience for movies anymore.  I love movies, but there aren’t many films that get me excited to go see them.

Nosferatu promised “a symphony of horror,” according to its tagline (and the subtitle of the 1924 original), and it delivered—in spades.

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Monday Morning Movie Review: Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

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I’m coming off a dizzyingly long Thanksgiving, and while I enjoyed quite a bit of unstructured time, I surprisingly did not have much time for writing.  Posts from the past week indicate the amount of phoning in I’ve done lately, and this week’s Monday Morning Movie Review will likely be no different.

The idea for this review came from my good buddy photog over at Orion’s Cold Fire.  On Halloween he wrote a large double review of the 1922 silent film Nosferatu and the Werner Herzog remake, Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979).

After reading his review, I found that Shudder had the Herzog remake—which photog correctly identifies as a tribute to the 1922 F. W. Murnau film—and watched it.  I will say that photog’s review really does an excellent job of detailing the highlights, so I’d encourage you to read it.  As he goes through much of the plot, I’ll leave that alone, and instead will give some of my thoughts on the film.

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