Robert Eggers began his career in the music industry as a production designer, but later moved into directing. He directed horror films and films with mythological elements, and Nosferatu certifies its previous success.
Nosferatu is the fourth film directed by Eggers and follows the same exciting trend as his previous directorial efforts. The film received positive reviews upon its Christmas release, and it continues its impressive run. Rotten Tomatoes sequence for the director. So far, all Eggers movies are certified fresh and feature a full popcorn bucketwhich indicates over 60% positive reviews from the public.
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Eggers’ first film was The witchreleased in 2015. The film, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, was a major critical and commercial success. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and grossed $40 million against a very low budget of $4 million. It currently has a Certified Fresh score of 91% from critics and a mixed score of 60% from the public. While the audience score isn’t particularly exciting, it’s high enough to maintain a positive badge.
His second directorial effort, that of 2019 The lighthouse was also a critical success. The period psychological thriller, which stars Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, received positive reviews but made no profit. It grossed $18 million against a budget of $11 million, which remains encouraging. The film has a Certified Fresh 90% critic rating and 72% public rating.
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Robert Eggers, director of 2024’s Nosferatu, explains his decision to revive the silent film rather than adapt the Bram Stoker novel it was based on.
His 2022 film The Northerner had positive reviews but had the most disappointing performance yet from the director. With an estimated budget of between $70 and $90 million, the film only grossed $69.9 million. However, this gave Eggers his third Certified Fresh score, as the epic historical film starring Alexander Skarsgård and Anya Taylor-Joy holds a 90% rating from critics and 64% from the public.
Nosferatu continued all this, with a Certified Fresh score of 87% from critics and 76% from the public. This is currently the highest score among moviegoers.
Robert Eggers wanted Count Orlok to be grotesque
The gothic horror based on the 1922 German horror masterpiece stars Bill Skarsgård, the brother of Alexander Skarsgård, with whom Eggers worked on The Northerner. The director wanted to give the vampire a different approach, bringing him back to the undead being he always was. Although he admitted that he thinks “Bill’s vampire is sexy,” he also previously explained the difference from other vampires. “Orlok drinks blood from the heart, not the neck.”
“We went to Edward Cullen, where vampires aren’t scary“, Eggers noted. “So how can we go in the completely opposite direction of that? Vthe amps were frightening enough that people dug up the corpses, cut them into pieces, and set them on fire.” He emphasized: “I think we deserve a scary, stinking corpse again“.
Nosferatu is currently showing in cinemas.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes
Nosferatu
- Director
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Robert Eggers
- Release date
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December 25, 2024
- Cast
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Bill Skarsgard, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Willem Dafoe, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Simon McBurney, Ralph Ineson, Paul Maynard, Stacy Thunes
- Writers
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Robert Eggers
- Runtime
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132 minutes