Robert Eggers is an American filmmaker who has released four films. The Witch (2015), set in colonial New England, is wonderfully atmospheric and deeply disturbing. The Lighthouse (2019), set in nineteenth-century New England, is the least of his films. It is highly atmospheric, but I found the story unintelligible as well as deeply distasteful. The Northman (2022), an adaptation of the original Hamlet story, is Eggers’ best film. Nosferatu (2024), Eggers’ latest film, is a remake of F. W. Murnau’s silent classic Nosferatu (1922), based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), which is one of my favorite stories, in all its variations. (more…)
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