HE’S SIX FOOT 4, with an oval contoured face, deep-hued eyes, and looks that might eliminate– and often do. He’s 2024’s sexiest male alive. No, not inveterate goof John Krasinski, who won Individuals‘s title this year, The shambling, imposing, blood-sucking bad guy in Robert Eggers’ NosferatuCount Orlok. (Although whether “alive” uses here might depend on the eye of the beholder.)
Scary fiction, on both the page and screen, widely identifies vampires as irresistibly appealing. Twilight‘s sparkly mopes, to Interview with the Vampire‘s terrible fops, to The Vampire Diariesbrooding, feuding brother or sister hunks, Blade‘s naughty vampire god wannabes (or Blade himself, if pale goth guys do not get you percolated). No matter the variations, vampires are primed to stir our thirst, so they can satiate theirs without the inconvenience of a hunt. We associate other beasts in the traditional scary canon with carnal impulses too, like monsters, however bloodsuckers appear to have a monopoly on the sexual temptation of excellent appearances.
Nosferatua remake of the renowned 1922 vampire movie which remained in turn an informal adjustment of Bram Stoker’s Dracula leans partially into this trope: Orlok’s victims can’t repel his existence. At finest, they can simply endure his impact, as Eggers’ lead, Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp), has actually provided for the majority of her life when Nosferatu starts in earnest. The movie opens on Ellen in her youth, weeping, lonely enough to call out for succor from a “guardian angel; a spirit of convenience; a spirit of any celestial sphere; anything.” Orlok definitely is among those things! Ellen’s plea triggered his alarm clock, awakening him from “an eternity of darkness,” therefore he addresses, slightly crabby over the trouble.
“You are not for the living,” Orlok booms at Ellen, undetectable conserve for his shape, slicing versus a set of large white drapes as they flap in the wind. “You are not for human kind.”
Kinky!
Minutes later on, Eggers reveals us what type of celebration we’ve concerned when Ellen end up outdoors her household’s vast estate. She swears a vow to Orlok to be one with him “ever-eternally,” then, depending on dirt, starts mewling and gasping with enjoyment that’s interrupted when the Count suddenly emerges over her and secures among his grungy claws around her throat; he is hulking and misshapen, gore slicked over his mustache, topped by an overstated, irregular hairline that contributes to his asymmetry. He roars. Ellen screams. This is not what she believed the guy of her dreams would appear like.
Orlok is played by Bill Skarsgård, understood finest for playing Pennywise the Dancing Clown in It: Chapter One and Chapter TwoLike Orlok, Pennywise is a living headache. Unlike Orlok, Pennywise can be prevented by workaday screens of will.
