Nosferatu: A Technical Masterpiece…and That’s About It
Tim Basaraba – Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu arrived at the end of 2024 with the weight of cinematic history on its shoulders. His decision to remake F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu: A Sympathy of Horror (1922)—the unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula—places him alongside giants like Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931), Christopher Lee in Horror of Dracula (1958), Werner Herzog with Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), and Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992).
