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Written and submitted by Urma Fassinger.

This article contains spoilers for the film Nosferatu (2024). 

From the streets of Wisborg, Germany to the forest of birch trees in Transylvania, Nosferatu (2024) is strikingly beautiful, haunting, and nauseatingly disgusting. Gothic horror has been on the fringe of cinema until Robert Eggers showed the world how valuable it is. This isn’t the director’s first project that could be described as strange and off-putting—films such as The Lighthouse (2019) and The VVitch (2015) have stunned and mystified audiences who seek out the dark. 

Nosferatu (2024) is a faithful adaptation of Nosferatu (1922), which was a creative adaptation of the novel Dracula written by Bram Stoker and published in 1897. Many believe that Dracula is the first modern vampire novel, but it is not; it has two predecessors: Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, published in 1872 and The Vampyre by John William Polidori, published in 1819. 

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