17 thoughts on “Nosferatu (2024)

  1. The only costume I didn’t like in the movie was Anna’s yellow evening dresses, with those strange cold shoulders. Never saw anything near like it in all my historical researches. I went to see Nosferatu with one of my closest friends, who’s also a historical costumer/sewer and we both laughed at that costume.
    But on an other subject, we couldn’t agree on whether Ellen’s corset had a wooden busc or not, my friend says she doesn’t, because Depp’s slim figure makes it useless, but I say it does, how could the corset stand up and not wrinkle at the waist if there was no stiff structure ?
    Anyway, would love to hear your take on this !

    1. Aah there was one interview with Lily in which she mentions the busc. So I think she had one. Idk if I can find it again.

  2. As much as I adored the costumes, I found myself really not liking the film very much. It’s probably because I’ve seen so many iterations of the same story over the years, but I just didn’t feel like it added anything new. It didn’t have the drama of Coppola’s Dracula, or the raw creepiness of Murnau’s Nosferatu. For a slow burn, it was pretty slow. And it was dreary, something my little goth heart should have loved, but I actually caught myself nodding off a bit near the end.

    That all said, I was thrilled to see the dress from a period that isn’t covered all that often!

    1. I’d argue that comparing NOSFERATU (2024) to DRACULA (1992) is a very bad idea, since the similarities are purely superficial – this may sound a little odd, but to my mind these two films are built in the same basic plot, but use it to tell two very different stories.

      DRACULA ‘92 is all Bad Romance (Though the film has a disturbing habit of forgetting the ‘Bad’ from time to time) whilst NOSFERATU ‘24 is the Tragedy of an abuse victim bringing down her abuser only at the cost of her own life (Something she is obliged to do due to the failings of local systems and the failures of the men in her life).

  3. I didn’t go to see this movie for the costumes, and to be honest I was expecting a glammed-up, highly stylized, vaguely 19th century look to appeal to the target audience. But it’s so rare that I leave a movie or show being pleasantly surprised by the costumes!
    What a breath of fresh air to say the costumes were not only better than expected, but GOOD, even capturing the little details of the time that definitely appear weird by modern standards.

    I was so excited to see sleeve pads, and I never thought I’d say that!

    It led to quite the conversation with my date over dinner afterwards about this particular time period lol

  4. I absolutely loved the movie in every aspect! And though this is not my favorite era for clothing, I’m so happy they still nailed the look, even if it isn’t always flattering and can look weird to the modern audience! I also was impressed by some of the hairstyles we saw indoors and that hair was UP except for scenes when people were in nightclothes!

  5. I’d say that Mr Skarsgard’s Orlock is more Imposing than engaging (Also, I’d argue that every member of the main cast puts in an excellent performance, with particular credit to Ms. Lily Rose Depp for carrying the whole tragedy of the film on her shoulders and to the chap playing Herr Knock for being THE creepiest ‘Renfield’ since Mr Dwight Frye – though almost completely bereft of the literary character’s pathos).

    Also, this being Frock Flicks, it would be remiss of me not to mention some quality ‘Kitty!’ content – with at least two of Our Heroes being happy cat persons.

    Well, they’re happy with their cats, at least.

  6. Also, one would be lying if some part of me were not curious about where the Nicholas Hoult Classic Vampire Cinematic Universe will go next – shall he be cast as Doctor Seward or Lord Godalming in some new adaptation of DRACULA, will he find himself cast in a CARMILLA (Possibly as a rather young Baron Vordenburg) or will he wait a few years until he’s old enough to play Van Helsing in the style of the young Peter Cushing?

    Who knows, perhaps he’ll follow Mr Hugh Grant into THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM.

  7. I was SO looking forward to this and I did enjoy it, but something was missing and I couldn’t say what really. I loved the scene where Thomas meets Orlock, really great, and obviously the costuming, just stunning. But one thing that really bothered me was there was a REALLY bad wig in it and it just seemed odd to me that it was bad when everything else felt real. It was Emma Corrin’s character’s really awful blonde wig which seemed to not even look like real hair to me. I have a bit of a thing for spotting bad wigs, but this i didn’t expect.

  8. Loved the film – my sort of thing and it was done well as a vampire story. I loved the costumes in the film and hoped they were period appropriate and I’m glad to read that they are.

  9. I rented this and watched it twice. I really liked it, even though it’s bleak and without hope. There is something beautiful, haunting, and creepy about it. I normally love romanticized vampires, so maybe the excitement of this going back to vampire roots and making them a rotting corpse that takes away your autonomy is what gripped me. It also IMO has THE BEST Dracula castle scenes of any film about this particular story, with Thomas’s terror palpable. And, of course, it’s gorgeous.

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