Nosferatu (2025) - Review
"Does evil come from within us, or from beyond?" The shadow of the vampyr has loomed over the genre of Gothic media ever since the introduction of a certain tale, wound of a reclusive Count and his efforts to step out of the shadows, intruding and infecting foreign lands with his languid touch. Bram Stoker's Dracula has seen adaptation across all forms of media, and it is a tale that has evolved and been expanded upon by prospective story tellers. Such a case was F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922): an unauthorised adaptation of Dracula, which took Stoker's work and repackaged it for German audiences, including a change of names, locale, and key events of the plot. After prints of the film survived the destruction ordered by courts on behalf of Stoker's widow, it was universally recognised as a benchmark for all genre horror films, and the pinnacle of what the Gothic had to offer the cinematic world. Now that this film itself resides within the public domain, al...