NOSFERATU (2024)

Robert Eggers is one of the greatest and most interesting directors working today. His track record speaks for itself: The Witch (2015), The Lighthouse (2019) and The Northman (2022). Needless to say, I was very excited to see his obsessively detailed reimagining of FW Murnau’s silent film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922), which itself is the unauthorized retelling of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. Unsurprising to me, the outcome is nothing short of a triumphant. 

Much like all of Eggers’ films, the period-specific dialogue pulls you deep into the journey, all while being draped in a gothic atmosphere so stylishly captured that the camera (thankfully) pauses throughout so that us viewers may take in its haunting beauty; intensified further by its sublime cast. This is gorgeous filmmaking and I appreciated every frame.

WATCH OR NOT: WATCH

Additional musings: Not that it means much to us here at Premium Def, but it’s befitting that Nosferatu received a 2025 Best Cinematography Oscar nomination (among other nods), but how it missed out on Best Picture is baffling.