#Nosferatu (2024)

[vampires-official]

official vampire post

i think i've mentioned it before in passing but it still fucks me up how Orlok is a physical manifestation of every "wrong and sinful" desire that Ellen tries to repress, as well as the panic that is associated with them.

the first sexual urges of her puberty (he claims her "ever-eternally"). the desire to dominate her husband (he dominates Thomas at the castle, demanding the subservience she never could). her queerness (he drinks from Anna, long and deep, and destroys Harding's family). the desperate longing for companionship, regardless of how dark and abnormal she believes herself to be (he answers her call from miles away, crosses an ocean for her, wants her, wants her, wants her - but she cannot imagine being wanted without repercussions, and so he brings the plague with him, a punishment for the sin of receiving what she craves).

Ellen is a mess of crushing guilt. she only ever sees ugliness in herself and i think it's so compelling to see her being desired above all else - not despite, but because of that ugliness, y'know?..

[dioptre-hertz]

nosferatu (2024) is so fucking funny. they did this joke twice

[snazzycicada]

[georgeharris0n]

PRACTICAL EFFECTS AND WILLEM DEFOE?? Letterboxd is going to devour this

[lobsterflaws]

[bitterbareface]

People not comprehending Nosferatu correctly might kill me. Yes it's erotic and about pleasure but yes it's devastating and about child sexual abuse. It's a movie about victimhood, about being already dead, about longing for the great beyond, about never feeling safe from your abuser, about always expecting one more rape must be endured. It is about being an ugly victim, a neurotic victim. About your supposed allies tying you down for fear you will rip their world to ribbons. It is about facing the abuser, facing the pleasure the abuser brought. It is about men seeking to silence a plague in the quiet of the night when grooming and abuse can only be destroyed by pulling it into the light of morning.

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

nosferatu is so funny. german guy in 1922 wanted to make an adaptation of dracula. couldn't get the rights so he just changed all the character names and killed off the mina at the end in hopes nobody would notice. they noticed and bram stoker's widow sued them and demanded all copies of the film be destroyed. but just like count orlok himself, the movie refused to die and then he showed up in spongebob

[descendinight]

‘‘ I am unclean ’’ from Nosferatu 草图

[tuserlivia]

NOSFERATU (2024), dir. Robert Eggers

[mxgicdave]

TO BE LOVED ENTIRELY 🩸

[emetselcch]

cause the best parts of a vampire besides the fangs are the (tender) hands

print available;

[yellenabelova]

Greta? She has no master or mistress

Nosferatu (2024) dir. Robert Eggers

[slothliart]

You are my affliction 🪻

Prints!

[swkywalker]

NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (1922) dir. F. W. Murnau NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (1979) dir. Werner Herzog NOSFERATU (2024) dir. Robert Eggers

[jackytaylor]

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) dir. Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau // Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) dir. Werner Herzog // Nosferatu (2024) dir. Robert Eggers

[lobsterflaws]