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Stunning photography and music, the choral parts reminded me of Mike Oldfield. Perhaps the pacing wasn’t completely right and lacked a bit of emotional depth but all in all it was a good film.

Outstanding. Spine-chilling at times.

All I have to say is that I watched on its first screening in Norwich, UK. The cinema was sold out and you could hear a pin drop for the whole duration. People didn’t even seem to be breathing. Not just a good film but a good communal experience. Now for what I came here to say. That the one star reviews are for the most part neopuritan fests. And as I suspected the people who complain about “innumerable unnecessary sex scenes” (not really) and the like just show an incredible ignorance of the western literary tradition and culture. Some reviewers don’t even know that Nosferatu, since its first inception is not “based” on Stoker’s Dracula, but IS Stoker’s Dracula. The worst example of pc smowflakery I’ve seen so far in the reviews is someone saying the gypsies should’ve been referred to as Romanis (in a story set in the 1830s!). Honest, some people should stick to Disney home cinema and stay the hell out of adult spaces. People cannot see the Freudian content. The neofeminists who complain about female nudity don’t clock that the subtext is the female embrace of their own shadow and sexuality, the shaking off of social mores, etc. Since the initial story came out of the Victorian milieu and supposedly we’re wiser now, I suggest that there could be a message to modern western society here, to recognise our collective shadow instead of finding monsters out there, Russia, the patriarchy, men, etc, etc. Ironically, this is what I see these pc reviewers reacting to. The idea that the female character, as she herself mentions is the largest cause of the crisis. But to see this you have to stop pretending to be whiter than white, both as a society and as individuals, and you have to get out of the newly imposed habit of disregarding centuries of tradition, culture and art, or you run the risk of completely missing out the context of everything around you. I marvel at how Romanticism seems to be making a comeback and has so much to say to us currently. Must be all the AI stuff and Mars travel they’re pushing down everybody’s throat. Good for the filmmakers. They made quite the horror movie, old fashioned in more than one way. And a big round of applause for Defoe, has this chap ever made a bad film? He’s got a hell of a nose for quality Willem. EDIT: lots of reviewers have remarked on the Count’s moustache without mentioning that it accords to Bram Stoker’s description in Dracula. In fact, this film gives us an image of the Count that is novel in cinema but is the closest to the literary original. Someone had to do it in the end. EDIT: Some people have doubts about miss Depp’s acting skills. I say to them, pay attention to the very first scene of the film, right from the get go, a dark screen with the sound of the female lead sobbing. Just hearing that I knew I was in for a massive treat, that the attention to detail was going to be exquisite.

Entertaining film. Some of the more intelligent reviewers point at several weaknesses that I agree the film has but I found it very enjoyable nevertheless. I’ll take the opportunity to poke a bit of fun at all these reviewers (a minority) who see the actions of the male character through the prism of the sex war while ignoring all the other aspects of romance, self sacrifice, cooperation, fear, loneliness, forgiveness, empathy, etc. (MINOR SPOILER) . . . they would have the girl climb onto the medical pod and abandon the chap to a life of loneliness. Luckily, she displayed some old fashioned values in the end, and good for her. Reverse the role and ask yourself, how long would an average woman wait before waking someone up, anyone. A day, two days, five minutes? 😂