Week 25.02 - Socials Roundup
Posts from 06 Jan - 12 Jan 2025
Week 25.02 posts were all about Vampyre Movies, with shots from Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922); Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979); Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992); and Nosferatu (2024).
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Love this shot-reverse-insert-shot from the silent classic; Thomas Hutter wakes up, feels strange, and pulls a mirror from his bag to examine his neck.
It's a great insert shot which nods to the fact mirrors have great significance in vampire lore - the film's opening scene (yellow, below) and climactic final sequence (pink and green, below) also feature mirrors . . . though you’ll notice Nosferatu’s reflection is visible, as well.
Egger’s Nosferatu (2024) pays homage to both these scenes: first with a direct reference image of Thomas (Nicholas Hoult) holding a square mirror up to see the telling two holes in his chest; later a similar rectangular mirror hangs in the Hutter bedroom, showing Thomas and Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) at various points.
Two Versions of Women Yearning Whilst Occupying a Beach Full of Dead Sailors
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) pays much homage to Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922), including these shots of Lucy (middle) and Ellen (top) pining and then getting bad news while sitting on a beachside bench amidst a bunch of surely-unstable grave markers.
Nosferatu (2024) directly references them both (bottom).
Skeleton Clocks
Never underestimate the work of props department, especially when they find and/or make work so great directors devote whole shots to showing them off, like these clocks in Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) and Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979).
Two Versions of Dudes Cutting Their Thumbs While Slicing Bread in an Utterly Inane Way
The parallels of the 1922 / 1979 versions continue with the scene where Hutter / Johnathan cuts a loaf of bread in a way so stupid he is bound to slice his thumb wide open . . .
Nosferatu 2024 also plays homage to these same shots.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
There’s match cuts, and then there’s audacious, ridiculous, batshit crazy concepts like taking the twin neck piercings of a vampire’s fangs and insinuating them over two glowing [were]wolf eyes.