Robert Eggers, director of the critically acclaimed horror film 'The Witch', is returning to the genre with a new take on the classic vampire film 'Nosferatu'. The film explores themes of desire, isolation, and the shadow side of human nature through the lens of a psychosexual relationship between a young woman, Ellen, and the undead vampire Count Orlok.
was released in 2016, this quote quickly became the film's most popular tagline. Uttered by Satan (in the form of the goat known as Black Phillip) to Puritan teenager Thomasin, the question is posed as an invitation for Thomasin to sign away her soul in exchange for freedom from the religious and sexual repression thrust upon her by 17th-century New England society. Thomasin's simple response?'Yes.
' Eggers once again focuses on a lonely, young female protagonist who embraces darkness in the hopes of assuaging her innermost desires in his fourth feature,, in theaters Dec. 25. Although, this time, the Faustian bargain is struck in the movie's opening scene rather than its climax.'I'm not trying to cannibalize my own work,' Eggers says of the parallels.'But there are obviously themes and motifs that interest me.'Unfortunately, the being that answers this call is not one for compassion or benevolence. Still, when the monstrous visage of the undead vampire Count Orlok () appears at her window and demands Ellen'surrender' to him, she reacts in a manner that toes the line between distress and pleasure. This psychosexual connection between Ellen and Orlok is what differentiates Eggers' take on thestory from its predecessors, and, according to the writer-director, arose from the 19th-century belief that women who were prone to sleepwalking—like Greta Schröder's Ellen Hutter does inEggers takes things a step further, positioning his Ellen as a young woman whose depressive and otherworldly nature has led to her ostracism among her 19th century peers.'She's an outsider. She has this understanding about the shadow side of life that is very deep, but she doesn't have language for that. She's totally misunderstood and no one can see her,' he says.'Because of this gift, in her teenage years, she ends up reaching out to this demon lover, this vampire, who is the one being who can connect with that side of he
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