Nosferatu (2024) - Guess it wasn't for me

There are many film reviewers on YouTube and I doubt anyone bothers to watch them all when deciding whether to go to the cinema and watch the latest movie.  Me - I have two or three 'trusted' reviewers who, over the years, I've come to find their tastes in movies align with my own pretty faithfully.  In short - I trust their opinions.  And all three gave 'Nosferatu' glowing reviews.  This, coupled with my general love of horror films, made me buy my popcorn and take my seat.

Now, you'll have to forgive me for not know too much about how this vampire story came to be, but I believe that it was a deliberate attempt to 'retell' the story of 'Dracula' but the film-makers (in the original and to this day) weren't allowed to use the character names and settings etc.

I really enjoyed 1992's 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' and, to put it bluntly, I just felt like I'd rather watch that.  I never realised that 'Nosferatu' stuck so closely to the plot of 'Dracula.' Ultimately, what you have here is a beat for beat 'remake' (with a different ending).  Therefore, nothing really took me by surprise as I knew where it was going 90% of the time.

To be fair, it's filmed well and the sets and general atmosphere are nicely creepy.  Plus the actor who plays... oh, whatever they call Dracula in this film, does a great job, so there are definitely plus points.

I just found the whole concept of this film redundant as it felt like a poor copy/remake of the 1992 classic.  I didn't hate it, but if I'd know this was all it was going to be I'd rather have just put on my DVD of 'Dracula' and saved myself the petrol.

5/10