I hope that this film would put a stake (pun definitely intended) in the 'vampires are sexy' more often. Sometimes it worked (Joss Whedon played off it well) but it's gotten so overused in the 2010s that I'm really beginning to think that it looked endearing. (I'm looking at you True Blood.)

There is something familiar about Nosferatu to be sure but I doubt it is something the Twihards-Sookie lovers are used to. Nosferatu in all its incarnations makes it very clear just how fun it ISN'T to be a vampire. It's ugly, its grusome and there's nothing sexy about being a victim of Orlok. I wonder, almost if Bill Skarsgard has taken this role perhaps to atone for his work as the all-too sexy Eric on True Blood. I've found everything he's done since then - not just Pennywise but his work in Big Little Lies in which he revealed that you can be a human being and still a monster - as a kind of atonement. Skarsgard is as suited for this role as Klaus Kinski was for Herzog and WIllem Defoe was in Shadow of the Vampire. (I supect that's at least one of the reasons Eggers cast him.)

It seems that every generation gets the Orlok it deserves. And yet somehow there always seems to be a pull towards 'that Anne Rice crap' as Whedon himself used as a satiric line on Buffy. The fact that Nosferatu has become one of the biggest box office successes, surprising so many pedants, shows that there is still a desire for atmosphere and unpleasantness. It may be familiar to lovers of cinema like us but i doubt the people looking forward to the Twilight Tv series would recognize and I hope like hell they see it before they start imagining how the TV version of Edward is.