About Nosferatu

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We’ve all been there. Stuck in a rut, alone and isolated, longing for someone, willing to do just about anything to get them back.

Time stretches during trials such as these. It can get to the point where you don’t even want to go outside. Isolation becomes habit, becomes a strange and mysterious sort of comfort from the sad normality of everyday living.

What an unfair world, we tell ourselves, where we can go on existing and that special person can go on existing, forever linked and totally apart. The heart shrivels, insides strain from the unrelenting tension. We reach out in our dreams, we hunger for reconnection with the one that made us feel like our time had real purpose. All sorrow, no sweetness. If only one day things could be different. We’ll do anything to make it like it was.

This is the timeless tale told in the film Nosferatu.

It’s a bit of an extreme case, I should say. Our sad-isolated-smitten-lovestruck character is a horrible-hideous-monster vampire fixated on a nice lady who just wants to get on with her life in a charming German town with those cute cobbled streets. Unfortunately, he’ll bring terrible destruction and plague all of mankind to get some more dates with her. I mean, it’s a bit much, buddy.

But like I said, we’ve all been there.

It’s a chilling retelling of a classic gothic story. And it’s really freaking good. I was riveted. Visually amazing. Incredible sound design. Singular cinematography. Super strong dialogue.

Hey. Love makes us do the craziest things. Cheers and see you after.