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‘Nosferatu’ Review: Bill Skarsgard and Lily-Rose Depp Are Riveting, but Director Robert Eggers Rules This Haute-Horror Feast

The Hollywood Reporter
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In Eggers' masterful take on the vampire tale, Lily-Rose Depp and Bill Skarsgard deliver riveting performances as an emotionally isolated woman and the menacing Count Orlok in this exquisitely crafted, darkly atmospheric horror feast.
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  • Acclaimed director Robert Eggers brings his distinctive style to the classic Nosferatu story, seamlessly blending gothic horror, macabre poetry, and sly hints of camp to create a truly mesmerizing cinematic experience.
  • Willem Dafoe shines as a disgraced professor with a fascination for the occult, injecting a fresh jolt of vitality into the film's climactic stretch as Eggers accelerates the action in sync with the plague descending on the town of Wisborg.
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Bill Skarsgard, Lily-Rose Depp, Robert Eggers, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Nicholas Hoult, Willem Dafoe, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, Focus Features, Nosferatu
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