Nosferatu 2024 Movie Review
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When George A. Romero began work on Night of the Living Dead in 1968, he was on the verge of making an apocalyptic vampire movie. But something was wrong. The vampire movie was a little...obvious? In fact, Hammer's Dracula cycle was still in full swing, with the poor Count only battling Billy the Kid and Batman in various knock-off movies. By having his reanimated corpses savagely devour raw flesh and vital organs, rather than nobly sucking the blood of the living, Romero did something brilliant and patented a genre that shows no signs of slowing down to this day. Stream this movie on Flixtor free movie
Meanwhile, attempts to (re)revive the original vampire film have resulted in numerous spectacular failures, ranging from blockbuster attempts (Van Helsing, 2004) to indie cult film wannabes (Dracula 2000) to parodies (Dracula – Dead Bats, 1995, which was quickly buried after one of the harshest reviews of Mel Brooks’ career). Curiously, the most sophisticated products of Bram Stoker’s famous novel are bootlegs such as Count Yorga, the Vampire (1970), Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter (1974) and even Carl Dreyer’s 1932 Vampire, which (supposedly) escaped the author’s estate. This work is based on the work of his role model, the Dublin writer Sheridan Le Fanu.
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