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VAMPIRES: Pt 3 - Nosferatu (1922) & Vampyr (1932)

The Evolution of Horror

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Rober Eggers the Lighthouse

There's a lot of vampir in robert eggers work, he says. The film itself is not only a sustained kind of memento more its copis littlememento mores scattered about and i think thost skulls played in the way they are often given some very subtle movement in the frame or lighting up. It really does go along with the thing that's also in nosforate, the vampire feeling less fleshly than ghostly. And this climaxs, of course, with the vampire's destruction, which i feel has a really beautiful moment.

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