Does Bill Skarsgård’s vampire thriller have bite?

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Nosferatu—Robert Eggers’ gothic horror thriller starring Bill Skarsgård, Lily-Rose Depp and Nicholas Hoult — is new in theaters. Will critics be captivated by the new gothic horror film?

A remake of director FW Murnau’s 1922 horror classic starring Max Schreck, Nosferatu opens in cinemas on Christmas Day.

The official logline for the film reads: “A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the fearsome vampire who is in love with her, causing untold horrors in its wake.”

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Skarsgård plays the lead role, also known as Count Orlok. The decrepit vampire is possessed by Ellen Hutter (Depp), the wife of Thomas Hutter (Hoult), a real estate agent sent to Transylvania to find a new property for Orlok.

Rated R, Nosferatu also starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Simon McBurney, Ralph Ineson and Willem Dafoe.

Directed by Eggers, Nosferatu is based on the filmmaker’s script, which was inspired by the original Nosferatu screenplay by Henrik Galeen and Bram Stoker’s legendary novel Dracula.

Nosferatu currently has a “fresh” rating of 86% on the critic aggregation site Rotten tomatoes based on 180 reviews.

The RT The critics’ consensus for the film reads: “Wonderfully orchestrated by director Robert Eggers, Nosferatu is a behemoth of a horror film that is equal parts repulsive and seductive.”

In addition Nosferatu currently has a “fresh” rating of 81% RTs Popcorn meter based on more than 100 reviews.

How are individual critics responding to ‘Nosferatu’?

David Fear is among them top critics on Rotten tomatoes that gives Nosferatu a “fresh assessment.

In his review for Rolling Stonewrites Fear, “You couldn’t have asked for a remake of this near-perfect silent film classic. Nor could you ask for a better artist to give this generation of goths a nightmare to call their own.”

Nick Schager also gives Nosferatu a “fresh review regarding RTwrites: “A monument to dark desire and the corruption it breeds, and a masterpiece of unholy terror that instantly takes its place alongside the genre’s hallowed greats.”

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Also in his “fresh” review regarding RT, BBC critic Nicholas Barber writes: “What really sets Eggers’ apart Nosferatu from the pack is how deeply it explores the imagery and themes of vampire history. There aren’t many Dracula films that give you that much to sink your teeth into.”

Richard Brody by The New Yorker is among the top RT critics giving the film a “rotten” review, writing: “The very coherence of his Nosferatu is what makes it drag. The images are not only stripped of superfluities; they are hermetically sealed from anything that might intrude from the screen. .. They feel designed, deadly, to mean only one thing.”

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Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair also gives Nosferatu a “rotten” review RTand writes, “Nothing is particularly frightening because most of the film’s humanity is drowned out by the relentless barrage of Eggers’ visual and aural mood.”

Another RT critic dulls his fangs Nosferatu is Katie Walsh, who writes in her review for Tribune News Service“An overly faithful retelling that is so indebted to its inspiration that it is completely hampered by its own reverence. If Shadow of the Vampire is a playful spin, Eggers’ Nosferatu is a completely straight-faced and endlessly boring retread”

Rated R, Nosferatu opens in cinemas on Christmas Day.

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