I would kill for this collab. Anyone who has seen Emma in House of the Dragon would know, easily one of the acting powerhouses of that show. In another life, I could see them playing Anna Hutter in Nosferatu.
Edit: Emma D’arcy uses they/them pronouns. I’m not having this conversation.
Counting down the days, not that we have a date but we are at the point where it feels inevitable.
What should he do next?
I'm planning an illustration of Orlok making his deal with the devil, I want it historical and accurate to what such a scene may have looked like in that period's artistic vision
So if there are any clues about when he was a human, what was his ethnicity and where he may have made the deal, lets discuss it
I was watching an interview with Robert Eggers and sound artist Damian Volpe about the sound design of “Nosferatu” (Director Robert Eggers and the Bloodcurdling Sound of Nosferatu | #DolbyCreator Talks; I’ll leave the link on the comments) and Eggers talks about them preparing the director’s cut of the film.
Does anyone know anything about what’s the director’s cut? We have the “theatrical cut” and the “extensive cut”, but this is the first time I’m hearing about a director’s cut.
He's said he didn't want the Northman to be like generic fantasy like Game of Thrones. But if he was ok making the witches and the devil real in The Witch. Why would making the zombie king and the Vallyrie real be an issue?
He did those scenes so well he should've just made a Beowulf movie.
Hey Aster fans 👋
I run a small movie tournament site called BingeBracket. We wanted to see how Ari Aster's films stack up against the other two directors who've defined modern horror this past decade — so I built a bracket: Aster vs. Jordan Peele vs. Robert Eggers.
8 films, 3 rounds, takes about a minute:
- Hereditary, Midsommar (Aster)
- Get Out, Us, Nope (Peele)
- The Witch, The Lighthouse, Nosferatu (Eggers)
Early voting has Hereditary tied with Get Out - curious to see whether enough Aster fans can swing it :)
Hope you enjoy the tournament!
Kate
(Mods approved this post, thanks to them)
Woke up today with this cheeky chappy on my arm.
Eggers’ Nosferatu is the culmination of his first three films, driven by an obsessive desire to provide a new layer of meaning to this acclaimed cinematic masterpiece. His previous works are, in a way, incorporated into Nosferatu, as if everything before it was a preparation—which, in fact, it was—for his greatest ambition (or perhaps, obsession).
The Witch (2015) gave Nosferatu its tense, brooding atmosphere—that constant feeling that something terrible is about to happen and that something even worse is watching from the shadows. The Lighthouse (2019) provided a heightened sense of stylization; it’s widely agreed that it was his most daring project until then, crafted with a very specific aesthetic in mind that permeates the entire film. The Northman (2022) gave Nosferatu its grandeur; while not a typical epic, the scale of that film is colossal.
The 2024 Nosferatu is atmospheric, uniquely stylish, and grand, yet it would still lack a justification for a new version of this classic if it weren't for Eggers' obsession, which gave the project its soul. Eggers' film speaks volumes about a specific obsession (one we could debate endlessly: toxic relationships, repressed desire, incest... the possibilities are many), but what truly grounds this project is the female role throughout the movie. She ceases to be a damsel in distress and becomes the driving force of the film, sparking even deeper discussions about this version.
I wrote this because I’m more curious than ever to see what’s coming in his future works… what new visions will he present to us? What haunting endings will he leave us with? The endings of his films are masterpieces in their own right.
In Nosferatu (2024), while studying about nosferatu, Von Franz says:
>In every account, the Nosferatu must return to the earth wherein it was buried, by the first crow of cock.
The "And lo the maiden fair did offer up" monologue shows a medieval woodcut of a young woman sacrificing herself to kill a creature similar to the Nosferatu. Ellen sacrifices herself to kill Count Orlok in the 19th century.
This leaves me to wonder...will there be similar creatures in the future? Will another maiden have to sacrifice herself to kill this creature? I, for one, wonder how something like a nosferatu could operate in the 20th, 21st, hell even the 22nd century!
What do you guys think?
I believe this topic hasn’t been discussed yet, but I found a couple of interviews where Robert Eggers, cinematographer Jarin Blaschke and costume design Linda Muir discuss the use of the color red in the film, and it’s importance to the storytelling.
About the costumes, Linda Muir explained Eggers’ instructions: “I was to avoid the use of red, other than in the clothing of the Hunedoarian and Romani folk costuming.”
A bit of a side note; the Inn scenes and Castle Orlok are in Hunedoara County in Transylvania, and the Innkeepers’ costumes are based in the folk costumes of the region (as Linda Muir discusses in the linked interview).
Eggers himself talked about this in an interview to “Dazed”: “The moonlit scenes are virtually black-and-white, just with a cyan blue tint,” says Eggers. “The lack of colour in a colour film can have its own power. The only red in the movie is blood and embroidery on some of the Transylvanian costumes”
Jarin Blaschke elaborated a bit more on this: “Rob was very particular about not seeing red in the movie except for blood. When you did see blood, he wanted it to connect. In one of the houses that Craig [Lathrop, the production designer] created, we had to make sure that none of the brown furniture had too much red or would look too red in different lighting conditions.”
Aside from blood and costumes, there’s red in: the tassel of the horse that locates the moroi grave (Romani “vampire hunt” scene); Count Orlok’s sigil; the “covenant papers”; the canopy of the bed of the tower bedchambers where Thomas Hutter is staying; the “plague ship” sails; and in the “Solomonari codex of secrets”.
Do you think its possibile that the teaser trailer would drop next week attached to Obsession which Is another Focus features movie? Or It'll be released in June attached to Disclosure Day?
I dont know if it was shared here earlier!
Qual foi o primeiro filme do Eggers que você assistiu e qual foi a sua reação quando acabou? Se você tem uma classificação, qual posição ele ocupa?
Hello, dear people. I have a question, this person here in the scene in witch's hut, witch cuts off Samuel's penis. I watched the scene a year ago, and I was like," Surely that's what's happening here," but now I'm writing my thesis and wanted to elaborate on that scene, so I went back to it, and now I don't think that's what's happening there at all. Did anyone else see this scene as a castration scene, or was it just me and this one person, and we were trippin?