‘Nosferatu’ Review: Robert Eggers’ Gothic Romance Is A Perverse, Technically Brilliant Tango With Death
deadline.comWhen George A. Romero first started work on 1968’s Night of the Living Dead he very nearly ended up making an apocalyptic vampire movie.
Something wasn’t quite right, however: vampire movies were a little bit… obvious? Indeed, Hammer’s Dracula cycle was still in mid flow, and the poor Count had been reduced to fighting Billy the Kid and Batman in sundry rip-off movies.
By having his reanimated corpses ferociously gorge on the raw flesh and vital organs of the living instead of genteelly sucking their blood, Romero made an inspired move, patenting a genre that, even now, shows no signs of slowing down.
Meanwhile, attempts to (re)resurrect the O.G. of the vampire movie has resulted in a series of high-profile flops, ranging from attempted blockbusters (Van Helsing, 2004), to indie cult wannabes (Dracula 2000) and even spoofs (Dracula: Dead and Loving It, 1995, which was swiftly laid to rest by some of the most sharpened reviews of Mel Brooks’ career).
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