Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I've not seen Nosferatu yet but it's so much on my mind that I dreamt I watched It last night but no way is the real film as disturbing as the one I dreamed, which culminated in a coven of female vampires gleefully eating the brains out of the upturned skull of one of their former cohorts and starting to eat her chin too
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Finally went to see Nosferatu.

I really loved the opening but sadly my regard for it slowly dribbled away what with all the cacaphonous melodrama and hammy gothic bollocks going on. Maybe that's just implicit to the source material I don't know.

But I thought several performances were creaky and Aaron Taylor Johnson in particular was RUBBISH.

I did like the vampire himself, the rotting flesh and chest glugging. And the sunrise scene I feel is burned into my memory, loved the last shot of his dessicated corpse.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I watched the original Nosferatu last night and it made the eggers one make more sense to me as an adaptation.

It's quite a cool film in places but as an adult there's really nothing very scary about max schreck, esp the scenes where he's walking around the town in broad daylight with his own coffin slung under his arm.

I've been reading ppls opinions about nos2024 and some at least agree with my sense that it starts really strongly and then nosedives.

A film like that, which I feel like COULD have been brilliant and wasn't, sticks in my craw more than a piece of shit.
 

vershy versh

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I watched the original Nosferatu last night and it made the eggers one make more sense to me as an adaptation.

It's quite a cool film in places but as an adult there's really nothing very scary about max schreck, esp the scenes where he's walking around the town in broad daylight with his own coffin slung under his arm.

I've been reading ppls opinions about nos2024 and some at least agree with my sense that it starts really strongly and then nosedives.

A film like that, which I feel like COULD have been brilliant and wasn't, sticks in my craw more than a piece of shit.

You'll have to do these two now.



 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I've seen both of those, although so long ago that I might as well never have seen them.

Weirdly (or not) I remember shadow of the vampire being the scariest.

Perhaps because it's about a "real" world colliding with gothic fantasy, whereas films entirely set in campy gothic fantasy worlds are less scary on account of how fantastical it all is.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Nos2024 did get me good at least twice with a jump scare. Probably worked a lot better cos I was in the cinema so the sound when Nosferatu appears/wakes up etc is like a fire alarm going off.
 

vershy versh

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I've seen both of those, although so long ago that I might as well never have seen them.

Weirdly (or not) I remember shadow of the vampire being the scariest.

Perhaps because it's about a "real" world colliding with gothic fantasy, whereas films entirely set in campy gothic fantasy worlds are less scary on account of how fantastical it all is.

The trailer for that one's ridiculous. I don't remember the film too well, but I definitely remember it being scarier than it comes across there. The voice-over's peak 90s.
 

vershy versh

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