Film Review - Nosferatu (2025)

Nosferatu is the new film by Robert Eggers who made the Northman and stars Lily Rose-Depp as Helen a young bride who years before swore eternal love to Count Orlock, now her husband Thomas (Nicholas Hoult) has to go to his castle in Transylvania to give him the deeds to a new home in Germany but the counts shadow is a long and terrible one.

Nosferatu is well made by Eggers and looks great on a cinema screen with deep blacks, use of candlelight, snow and very nice production design, on a purely visual level it is stunning to look at.

The film also has a slew of good performances, Rose-Depp at times reminded me of Emma Watson with her British accent but she is very good especially during some heavily physical moments, Emma Corrin is good as well in a small role as is Willem Dafoe while Nicolas Hoult and Aaron Taylor-Johnson are very good as well.

But where this movie lets itself down a little bit is in its storytelling, don’t get me wrong it isn’t bad in any way at all but at times it feels cold and distant not unlike other filmmakers who try to replicate Christopher Nolan’s style of storytelling which can also feel cold and distant at times but also not unlike the Northman felt at times and more often than not I found myself missing the high camp emotion of Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula film from 1992 which had great horror moments but also good emotion in its love story as well and that balance isn’t as good here I’m sorry to say.

And so that was Nosferatu and it is worth seeing and well made but I prefer the Coppola Dracula film instead, The Blood is the Life after all and the Blood runs a little too cold here, 3 out of 5.