Nosferatu was called “one of the best films of the year” in early reviews

The first reviews are available for Robert Eggers’ Nosferatuand critics praised this haunting reimagining of a classic story with a 93% across 57 reviews on the review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes.

Led by Lily-Rose Depp, Nosferatu twists Bram Stoker’s Dracula story just like FW Murnau’s original Nosferatu did it in 1922, when Bill Skarsgård took on the role of Count Orlok, a vampire whose infatuation with Ellen Hutter (Depp) causes unspeakable horror.

The film is set to hit theaters on Christmas Day, and critics say it’s worth the trip, calling it “a beautiful gothic nightmare” (Rosa Parra, The Latino Slant) and “one of the best films of the year” ( Jeff Ewing, Collider).

“It’s exhilarating to experience a film that is as assured as it creates and sustains fear,” says David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter, “so hypnotically frightening that it grabs you by the throat and won’t let go.”

Eggers is known for his twisted stories, which stunned audiences in 2015 The witch and hypnotizes them again in 2019 with the show directed by Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson The lighthouse.

Ian Sandwell from Digital Spy says: “Nosferatu In the end, it’s an excellent mix of folk horror The witch and the larger scale of The Northman. By finally bringing his passion project to fruition, Robert Eggers has given us all the best horror film of the year.”

Nosferatu is a decades-long dream for Eggers, who has tried to bring his reimagining to the screen throughout his career.

“As his own master of the horror genre, dedicated to bringing to fruition a decade-long passion project,” says Don Shanahan at Every Movie Has a Lesson, “Eggers unleashed his vision in a raw and uninhibited way Way that only he could realize.”

There are currently only four negative reviews on the Rotten Tomatoes site, with Variety’s Peter Debruge saying: “Nosferatu builds to a tragic finale, but is weighed down by pretentious dialogue, sleepy pacing and weak performances, particularly Lily-Rose Depp’s as the doomed damsel.”

“Ultimately it’s a tone problem,” says Kevin Maher of Times (UK), “The film is so self-conscious that it keeps stumbling into camp. He wants to be Murnau’s original, but Mel Brooks’.” Young Frankenstein is in the way.”

However, the overarching narrative from the early reactions seems to be that Eggers has hit the mark with his passion project and we should all be excited to unravel his secrets on December 25th.