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'Nosferatu' Director Unlearned Every Vampire Trope To Reinvent the Genre

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Eggers directs a gritty, historically-grounded 'Nosferatu' that shuns vampire movie tropes to deliver a chilling reinvention of the genre.
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  • Eggers and his team spent months researching obscure folklore to craft an authentic 19th-century vampire experience, ditching familiar blood-sucker cliches.
  • The film eschews flashy special effects, opting instead for a somber, unsettling tone that critics are hailing as Eggers' most ambitious and provocative work yet.
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Robert Eggers, 'Nosferatu'
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