The allure emanating fromCount OrlokinNosferatugoes more than decaying skin deep.
The most appreciated contemporary vampire, Edward Cullen fromTwilight, is not scary at all, Eggers toldGold Derby.
So clearly, there must be something scary there.
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And these early folk vampires looked like rotten corpsesmore like how we think of zombies in current cinema.
So that was exciting theory.
Here, hes just Thomas Hutter: regular man cuckolded by the power of centuries-old rotting rizz.
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What can we say?
In that same interview, Eggers continued, The facial hair, not everybodys a fan of.
I suppose he could have had a beard, just as likely.
But, you know, Dracula in the novel has a mustache.
Vlad the Impaler had a mustache.
Its a very common Eastern European facial hair style.
Its the historical accuracy, truly.
Skarsgard shared withEsquirethat the performance took its toll and that it was like conjuring pure evil.
It took a while for me to shake off the demon that had been conjured inside of me.
Hopefully youll get a little bit attracted by it and disgusted by your attraction at the same time.
And on Anne Rice, I swear he and Eggers did it.
He even sounds hypnotically powerful.
Seriously, the sorcery?
How else can you explain the somatic trances Lily-Rose Depp performed as Ellen?
Orlok is an appetite indeed.
A tale as old as time indeed.
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