I spent a rental of $21 on this two hour and twelve minute mess. I've seen far better productions from of film student majors than this baloney. Not one actor or actress was even remotely good and sadly, even Willem Dafoe, who has had a solid career, was pitiful. Maybe Director Robert Eggers is just an untalented director and a ludicrously poor writer of a screenplay. The dialogue was literally unimaginative and juvenile. Depp and Hoult have zero charismatic range as their characters were 100% less than inspiring to watch.
It was piss-poor script, terrible direction and if there was ever a film where the cast just got a paycheck for doing less than minimal, this gets the award. I hope they had a good caterer.
Bill Skarsgård was excruciatingly bad as Orlok, reading his lines like he was totally bored with the entire production.
If this film was meant to be a true gothic horror, it failed completely. If was made as a black comedy, then again it ranks as a major, big-time fail. But, if was meant to be somewhat satirical, cult-like and tongue-in-cheek, even that awards it a zero rating.
Why does a centuries old creature allow his fingernails to grow, but his moustache is trimmed short?
Why does he sleep in his coffin naked and where does he put all those clothes he wears?
Did the two little sisters, Clara and Louise will they eventually become "the undead"?
How did the character Knock, Orlok's toady, move the heavy coffin off the crashed ship and on to a tiny boat, then get it into the manor where Orlok is to rest.
It states that Bill Skarsgård "trained with an opera coach to lower his voice an octave to make the voice of Count Orlok as deep as possible". They could have just set the pitch-correction software to make the timbre "deeper".
I only gave it "one star" because some, not all of the cinematography, was acceptable.
OVERALL: A waste of time...totally.
It was piss-poor script, terrible direction and if there was ever a film where the cast just got a paycheck for doing less than minimal, this gets the award. I hope they had a good caterer.
Bill Skarsgård was excruciatingly bad as Orlok, reading his lines like he was totally bored with the entire production.
If this film was meant to be a true gothic horror, it failed completely. If was made as a black comedy, then again it ranks as a major, big-time fail. But, if was meant to be somewhat satirical, cult-like and tongue-in-cheek, even that awards it a zero rating.
Why does a centuries old creature allow his fingernails to grow, but his moustache is trimmed short?
Why does he sleep in his coffin naked and where does he put all those clothes he wears?
Did the two little sisters, Clara and Louise will they eventually become "the undead"?
How did the character Knock, Orlok's toady, move the heavy coffin off the crashed ship and on to a tiny boat, then get it into the manor where Orlok is to rest.
It states that Bill Skarsgård "trained with an opera coach to lower his voice an octave to make the voice of Count Orlok as deep as possible". They could have just set the pitch-correction software to make the timbre "deeper".
I only gave it "one star" because some, not all of the cinematography, was acceptable.
OVERALL: A waste of time...totally.