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November 2024

NOSFERATU Robert Eggers' scary reimagining makes the vampire foul and frightening again...

- JAMIE GRAHAM

BAD BLOOD

When Hutter throws open Orlok's coffin in the [F.W.] Murnau version, that was a legitimate jump scare in 1922 - seeing the putrid corpse must have been really terrifying,' muses Robert Eggers of the original Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, the eerie silent masterpiece that gorged on the blood of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. Eggers frowns under his cap. 'So how do we do that now?'

It's a good question, especially given the deluge of vampire movies since - there are more than 170 film versions of Dracula alone. 'Also, we've gone all the way to Edward Cullen, where vampires are not scary,' adds Eggers. 'So how do we go in the complete opposite direction of that? Vampires were scary enough that people used to dig up corpses and chop them into bits and set them on fire.'

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This story is from the November 2024 edition of Total Film.

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