‘Nosferatu’ Review: An Undead Classic Brought Back to Life

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• Director Robert Eggers avoided the temptation to modernize the classic tale, instead finding contemporary resonance in the story's themes of a society besieged by a monstrous plague, with swarms of rats and a veritable pandemic of disease and decay.
• Skarsgård's Orlok is a far cry from the stereotypical cinematic vampire - he's more like the personification of all that's unholy, with a guttural growl of a voice, unsettling wheezes, and a mutable form that's barely even human.