NOSFERATU (2024) Breakdown | Easter Eggs, Hidden Details, Making Of Trivia & Ending Explained

0:00 welcome to the heavy spoiler show I'm your host Paul and this video we're breaking down I'll take this off got loads of hair stuck in my mouth there and the movie itself is of course a remake of the 1922 silent film titled NOS Fatu a symphony of horror that was the first vampire movie ever though it's gone on to be considered a masterpiece at the time it was met with some backlash the film was in an authorized adaptation of Dracula and it led to a big big lawsuit Bram Stoker Widow Florence Balcom sued for copyright violation and in the end she won the case thus all copies were ordered to be destroyed it's easy to

0:46 apply this metaphor to the death of the titular character and they were burned up just like the count however some copies survived and thus the legend of the film lived on like a vampire went beyond death and the figures now became a cinematic icon however because of this the end credits list that it's based on naratu and also the work Dracula as well class as being one of the first Horrors ever though we now have this remake produced by Robert Edgar Edgar has created a body of work that marries historical realism with Fantastical elements things like the vit you know it deals with the occult while also remaining accurate at the time whether it's the sets dialect accents or costumes it's clear he puts a lot of care into his work and this movie is now exception with With It featuring some of the best night scenes in modern Cinema

1:32 like thank God we're not just doing the literal dark days of the Game of Thrones night battle how this was done though is given away by little clues that are obained in the film for example you can see clouds in the sky at the start and also Ellen shadow on the ground in our Dr No video we discussed how this often shows stuff's being shot in the day and then simply darken for film but I think it works really well and that points the movie even seems black and white this gives it the effect of the original syum film and creates such a cool aesthetic with the dark there's lots of things that we need to bring into the light though and throughout this video we're going to break it all down please hit the thumbs up if you enjoy the video and if you're down for the count like a bad boxer then make sure you subscribe without out of the way thank you for clicking this now let's get into

2:23 Nosferatu now the movie itself was in development for over 9 years with it first being announced in 2015 this was just months after eger's debut the Witch and he'd of course then go on to do the Northman both featured Anya Taylor joy and she was originally cast as Ellen later Harry Styles was also cast as her husband but I'm glad they changed that one direction oh brother this guy stinks Nicholas whole paps delivers his best performance to date and after don't worry darling it's difficult to imagine Styles doing better now due to the original being based on Dracula pretty much all the story is the same we follow a young solicitor heading to a remote Castle to help a creepy old dude buy a property abroad the vampiric figure wants to steal his wife and the hero

3:09 returns to try and take out the villain oh you're my wife now we have the female character's friend being killed by the vampire and yada y y the beats are laid out like the original however a few things were changed in the remake that are brought over to this for example NOS veru introduced the idea that vampires would perish in light Bram Stoker just had his ability suspended and the sunlight merely weakened him the daylight things now a staple of the genre though and it highlights how important osaru is you could even argue it's what made the creature as popular as they are and clearly several directors have been influenced by the film multiple dracular projects have come out recently such as the Voyage of the DEA that's literally a whole movie about the boat scene mixed in with alien

3:55 Renfield also released recently and that of course St Nicholas halt it ends up the Dracula SL orlock servant relationship so it actually nicely plays in of the characters here Doug Jones also made a version of NOS feratu last year as well and yeah the characters had such a long Legacy on top of that NOS feratu also notably featured in SpongeBob SquarePants during the episode graveyard shift in an interview egar said that he knew of this and that kid shows like the Muppet Babies exposed him to a lot of horror references we of course also get a change in the names with Count Dracula being being changed to count olok both were based on Vlad the impal though which we will talk more about with the character's design now the movie opens up with a classic Universal films logo which was used for their movies in 1913

4:41 that was when they were known as the universal film manufacturing company so it's a great way to open up the movie we then go to the Focus Features logo which has been made to look all old timey like despite the company being founded in 2002 this thing goes to maiden voyage which ironically fits in with the boat trip orlock takes open with Ellen pleading for someone to ease her loneliness it then leaves her open to ok's control the original book dealt with themes of melancholy and how lonely eternity could be in a lot of adaptations Dracula is seen as a tortured Soul who lives forever alone in his castle things like the Castlevania anime they've all dealt with these themes and this is what drives the C to buy a house you also forget just how much people were cut off from others back in the day nowadays you can speak to almost anyone on the planet in an

5:28 instant however back then if somebody went on a trip it was Comon that you wouldn't see them for years thus loneliness starts a chain of events that has all user future husband to help him move to Germany this is a big changer from the other adaptations and it sets up that alen was in contact with him long before she was romantically interested in anybody else in the book Ellen's character Lucy only develops a psychic connection after Dracula drinks her blood three times in the 1922s in OS veratu she only becomes connected halfway through the movie so they are altering things slightly from oru's point of view though she swore herself to him and she's then cheating on him with Thomas I swear in the past it's normally the husband who invites the devil in as he's the one tempted by money there the story's being a metaphor

6:14 for greed but here I see this as a metaphor for lust the movie is horny as F and I think eggar is giving a common on society later on NAS feru describes himself as being an appetite and I think both he and Ellen have one that sexual in the way orock drinks blood there's clearly humping and thrusting so tieson with that really well however due to society she can't act how she wants and she's left at home and basically told her place she doesn't get to make the decisions and her please for her husband to stay home or ignored so sexual repression and the release of that definitely feels like an aspect of the movie the psychic connection is played up a lot more in this compared to the original though and aggar expands Ellen's role massively Professor Albin eard B France later explains that Ellen

7:01 has a connection to the Paranormal which means she's being used by orok he even tells her that in another life she would have been a priestess of Isis eggar mentioned in an interview how in the Herzog movie she was mentioned as a sleepwalker and back then Sleepwalkers were presumed to be in tune with the other side Bon FR is also played by William defo his inclusion sees him teaming up with eggar once more after the Northman and also the lighthouse which is another great film Ralph Inon who appears as Francis former student is also a frequent collaborator having appeared in the witch the Northman and now naratu this however is def's second NOS verado theme movie as he played count orlock during 2000 shadow of the vampire that was a send up of the making of the original NOS verado so it is kind of like how hul played Renfield Albin

7:48 was also the name of the producer on the original and his character is based on Professor van heling he's basically your vampire hunting archetype and over the years he's been adapted in several ways cutting back to the movie though we get our first look at the night shots which again are presented really well this was part of a technique Edgar used on the Northman but he really steps it up here Director of Photography Aaron blash used what he called a short pass filter to remove the color in the film he put on the same one used for the lighthouse which is black and white but he allowed a little bit of blue into the spectrum they then removed the red and yellow which makes the movie have a look of kind of the original film we then see Ellen taken over by orlock and Lily actually work with a movement coach to get these moments to be as creepy as they are and some of them are insane Lily explained how each of the movements

8:35 in the movies intended to fit the interior trauma and thoughts going through Ellen's head egar was inspired by Japanese BH movements which is a style of dancing that started in the ' 50s if you recognize it it's because they were used in the ring and it works really well here they also took inspiration from Jean Martin shak's hysteria images which fit in with the time period of the movie doing this exhausted the actress though and th they were weren't able to do that many takes with her taking over we then cuted the title card the font was designed by Teddy blanks who also did the recent throwback one they used for Wicked he also worked on the lighthouse as well and has credits for severance bobie and B's afraid these all oo Style just the same as Nos veratu and it looks like the guy Nails the logos every time

9:20 considering the silent movie origin and the use of text there the commitment to getting the right Gothic logo you know I really appreciate it we then see Ellen and her newly wet husband interrupted by a cat while she begs him to stroke another [ __ ] you what Ellen's cat has no master or mistress which mirrors Ellen who has both a husband and a psychic long-distance boyfriend her having this pet fits well with the movie's second half where the rats take over the city and cause a plague back then cats were used to hunt rats and she's the one who kills allock in the end the professor also has multiple cats subtly hinting how he'll be the one to help Ellen Thomas and rushes off as he's expecting a big day at work and he needs the money to start a family in home now I do appreciate how they made the PIR Newly Weds whereas in the past they've

10:06 been married a couple of years it sort of plays into the eagerness he has and why he wants to do what's best for his family we also learn he's in debt to his school friend and though his mat's all right about it he clearly wants to show he can pay him back we then get a hint of Ellen's foresight as she knows her husband's got the position already and he's going to be sent away this sort of feels like it riffs off The Shining where Danny knew his dad had got the the job it explains why moments ago she begged him to stay and hoped he'd throw a siky and this might be why he was late in the end happy 2025 everyone I hope your new year has been great and that everyone's looking forward to the future however we are of course in a big political change across the world and going forward the landscape of media and Reporting is rapidly evolving staying up

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12:26 which sounds like knock and see even back then yeah we had company's doing pun names the Cod far there there's a hairdressers around the corner called curl up and dye cuz you dye your hair it's good it's a good we then see a group of men at desks angry at his tardiness which really reminded me of Scrooge's office in The Muppets Christmas Carol it might have been because I watched it a few days ago but to be fair it was for Christmas I'm not a psychopath we then meet her KN who is under the spell of allar and has been duped in the thinking he'll get power from the count knock is based on the character of Renfield and he follows largely the same beat he ate rats and insects believing he would gain power or as here we see him brutally bite a pigeon's head off little segue yeah but during that scene innocent also gives one of his best dead pan lines ever now my good fellow why would you do that

13:13 knock has slowly started to lose his mind though and he does seem rather eccentric he's giddy at the idea that this Situation's Providence which means the protective care of God or of nature is a spiritual power he's clearly loving the plans coming together and starts to drop subtle hints like this yes to retire here he has one foot in the grave so to speak one thing I love about the film as well is how that it also tackles emerging ideas at the time the film really wrestles with the old and new world and we see this in several subtle ways the new world is described as structured and formal and everything's thought to be rational on the flip side of this the old world said to be Eternal and infinite he is infinity the now playing podcast pointed out that in every scene set in Germany you're able to spot a clock in the

13:59 background on the flip side of this all the scenes outside of this don't feature one so things tied to this side of the infinite are often formless and without time a detail I love is that Thomas coworker says he's 15 minutes late but his boss doesn't care at all this is a little clue to knock not being interested in time because at this moment he's tied up with the infinite he tells Thomas he intends to buy a house in wisborg which is the same name used in the 1922 movie just like in the film he's sent to a castle in the Carpathia mountains which is where transylvania's located next to the map we can also see wax seals of hectograms which are a symbol of oroc there's lots of strange symbols there mate but knock quickly covers them up throughout the film we also have the frequent use of daan language I'm un sure if it's pronounced daian or daian but from what I found

14:44 everyone said daan so yeah we're going with that for the video comments below if you're a daan expert if you are though yeah you your job's useless cuz the language is extinct and it dates back thousands of years this scene all calls back to the original movie though when knock looks at similar writings and that kind of hinted that something was off about the character we then see as the weather ominously changes as HUD returns home and he finds Ellen distroy at this in the flowers she says they'll die in a couple of days foreshadowing the danger Thomas is in this is a call back to the original movie where Ellen said a similar line about the flowers flowers are lilac though and they have a much deeper meaning lilacs are native to Easter Europe which no doubt reminded Ellen of her long-distance boyfriend the color was also worn by widows at the time which further sent home the

15:30 metaphor of death lxs are thought to symbolize First Love which I believe is also an illusion to orock this is duud to Ellen saying that in her dream the smell of LX was in the air orok even smells them on her locket and at the end though we can't show the full shot they are lilu surrounding them the scent of the lilu was strong in the rain and Ellen also recounts more of her dream which foreshadows the ending of the movie the smell of death is the plague that comes to the city and we see how all around Ellen slowly start to Die the wedding could also allude to orar attempting to take control of her and their sex scene at the end so having the smell of lilx gives her an early insight into her foresight now Thomas thinks she's a bit crazy and it's hinted she's had this supposed Madness for quite a while it was an is she believed to have

16:15 passed but people become forceful with her when it reemerges she ends up being bound to the bed and now playing said they treat her like a problem instead of a person which is a great phrase to use he very Inc confidently says that everything's well and thinks that having a big house with mates will solve it it highlights he doesn't understand her issues and therefore doesn't know how to treat it I also love the quick cut of them looking sad and miserable in the carriage Thomas clearly wants to emulate his Boyhood friend though who's made a fortune off his father's Shipyard he even mentions how the demands outstripping his capacity and his biggest problems that he's making too much money this is due to being set near the end of the Industrial Revolution which brought Untold riches to Europe you also hear he's got his son on the way and he's more interested in him than he is his two girls he cares more about

17:02 the kid he doesn't have yet and ignores their cries about the monster under the bed now the film also argues the point of the rational versus the irrational if you believe in signs then you can't believe in Monsters And Thus they fall victim to it because the warnings fall on deaf years on the flip side of this orani have modernized like Germany and they still gotten the night and Hunt vampires they keep orock in his castle and believe he's trapped so the rest of the world's safe even though the rest of the world's moving on though they're still stuck in their ways to protect everyone else Alan then cuts her hair which could be for Thomas to put in a locket but it can also be read as being a gift to oroc this will let him know to follow him and you can really read into this moment another way we then see as Thomas has come across a village of Romani people dancing and playing music

17:48 we learn that these people live in fear of orock and basically Voldemort his name which I shouldn't have said I apologize I shouldn't have said that I should not have said that as he walks in it feels like the pub scene in American Werewolf in London where the two characters are met with stun wall silence as the locals also live in the fear of a monster on the prow ner lady is also using garlic as protection against orar with this of course being a staple of weapons against vampires this was created by stoker and his book where Van hson used it to ward off the creatures of the night however it does originate in Slavic myths there it said that garlic can ward off all manner of folklore beasts now in this version the people are given way more of a personality as opposed to how they were portrayed in the original and also in the book in a lot of versions these

18:33 villagers actually work for Dracula and do his bidding and basically move about his coffin here though they act against him and it adds a nice little Dynamic now when making the movie edar said he actually watched Dracula dead loving it it's a weird choice but that wasn't to see what to do but rather what not to do in case you haven't seen it the movie is a parody and it basically rips apart all that's come before because of this he was able to note the cliches and then make sure to avoid them in his script one of the big points of contention was that the villagers tell him not to go to the castle and yet he still goes ahead we're going to do it anyway so here they had it so he doesn't understand the language and thus can't listen to their warnings which is a nice little touch now vampires are mentioned in Romani folklore as beings that rise

19:19 from the grave and drink blood this is why we get that interesting scene of the woman riding on a horse in the folklore it was said that a 7-year-old boy dressed in white will find a a vampire's grave if they ride through the cemetery at midday here we have a naked version on a white horse which fits the film thematically she's being used here as bait which is something Ellen does at the end the chain she woman here also fits in with the themes of orlock taking women throughout the ages which we find out later on in the book death also rides a white horse so yeah it is a nice bit of symbolism now it's up in the air if it's a dream or not but I do think it was real we see Thomas's boots are muddy and due to what we learn of the area you know vampires R around there so I can't see Thomas dreaming this up before meeting orock this also teaches him to stake them through the heart which he does later on when he knocks on the

20:06 wrong coffin poor Thomas is then left alone as he has to walk all the way to the castle in the snow the snow is very interesting though and egg is actually used an old school film technique the snow made on the Northman was created by a device that would be set on fire swung around and then sprinkle Ash in the air however since then the gas at adits was made illegal so he had to do it differently this led to eggar using an old technique which involved frozen potato flakes the production ended up buying a massive Supply in Europe and yeah you can't tell the difference no idea that was like a potato about just like the original a carriage mysteriously comes to meet him it's incredibly eerie and looks to be riderless which again adds to this spooky dream feeling in the original this was always driven by the vampire but I like here that it doesn't have a

20:53 rider adding into the dreamlike quality Thomas then floats into the carriage The Carriage then gets checked faced by hounds and we see as he arrives at the castle this is Corbin Castle which is one of the largest castles in Europe the shot also looks very similar to when K Reeves's Jonathan Hawker arrived there in 92s Bram stalker's Dracula well I will arrive at the castle that's how he sounded it was Cockney back then that was interestingly this Castle is also where Vlad the Impaler was imprisoned for a short time the Impaler was known for well impaling and I don't know if that's a sexual metaphor but yeah the guy killed a lot of people it's estimated that at the time he may have killed up to 100,000 which is insane looking back as killings had to be done by hand genocides these days you know they're often carried out by industrial

21:39 means but there everything had to be done with personal involvement Vlad was hated and he was so feared that even in death people thought he might come back this is what created the legend of the vampire and it formed the basis of Dracula now agar actually gives a n to this in the character design of olok he's a big departure from the classic in film and instead he looks like a noble Lord this includes having a gigantic mustache which is what Vlad also had in real life anyway back to the castle and the interior was filmed at perin Castle this was also used in the 1979 when a Herzog version of Nos veratu and it has such a creepy aesthetic I love how as he opens his eyes it looks like he's waking up in a coffin and he then appears at the gates these Gates were actually made especially for the production as Edgar

22:26 wanted huge intimidation dating barriers he also looks like he just smashed the red button on The Voice they open without him even making contact and it's such a creepy detail it's here that we also see the silhouette of olok with Bill Scar's guard being completely unrecognizable egg is intended for olok to be a vampire from a time when people actually believed in them they were thought to be like putrid rotting corpses and I guess not have shiny skin orlok's eyes are also cataracts so it creates the impression he's a corpse he also does a heavy accent which is clearly inspired by Bella losoi Losi had difficulty Landing roles at the time and this was due to his thick Hungarian accent however upon playing Dracula it worked really well to add this foreign and other feel since then it's just

23:12 become a part of the character and it's difficult to imagine him speaking any other way olok then chastises Thomas for being late just like he does in the original Edgar expands on the scene brilliantly though orock is mostly hidden away and H does a great job of looking like he's weighing over his head just before they head into the castle we see oloc walk ahead and he makes no sound which egar said was an homage to the silent movie nature of the original Thomas looks like he's on a haunted house ride at times and olok exits the scene left and then comes in from the right it's so good and I just love the way they frame him here finally we get our first proper good look at him and it plays upon the description in the book the mouth so far as I could see it under the heavy mustache was fixed and rather cruel looking with peculiarly sharp

23:58 white teeth these protruded over the lips whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing Vitality in a man of his ears the rest his ears were pale and at the tops extremely pointed the chin was Broad and strong and the cheeks firm though thin the general effect was one of extraordinary palor now all Lu impli to have being a Solomon AR who was cursed and he's only allowed to live in this cursed land now Bill SC God was originally cast as Thomas hudder however the film had such a long pre-production during this Edgar re thought some of the movie and decided that Scar's God would act better as the count Scar's God completely disappears though and I'm glad he got the role he worked for a long time on his voice and likened it to Mongolian throat singing his face was made using Prosthetics with over 60

24:43 being apply to him this took between 4 to 6 hours depending on what look the character needed he's no stranger to this process though as he notably played Pennywise during it chapter 1 and two one of the Prosthetics was also actually gifted to Nicholas Holt which made for made for a lovely little momento during the scene when orock slips Thomas's blood eggar asked how was that for you HT said he could feel a prosthetic penis so egar framed it and sent it as a gift yay Thomas then starts to eat the bread like the original and he also cuts his fingers the same way in both a vampire fixates on the blood and the hunger builds within Thomas then randomly appears at the fire and we can see the statue looks like it's moving again we're unsure if he's dreaming or not and he looks utterly terrified we then go to a beach that looks like the original and

25:29 it was inspired by the book their mea's journals talked about a holiday in witbe which I've visited numerous times honestly when you go there I don't know what it is but there like there's just an atmosphere to it the cathedral looms larger over the hill and it's easy to see why it was picked for Dracula now the crosses here are intended to be the graves of sailors who were lost at sea this was filmed on a lake in the Czech Republic and it even flooded on the day of filming Ellen then talks about a higher power having a hold of her which Anna chokes up to being God while a men ignore Ellen through science andna does it through Religion she says just be a good Christian yeah and celebrate Christmas and in the end no harm can come to you so further adds into the aspects of repression and how both religion and Society can oppress women sexually film analysis hat going on

26:15 there the movie was of course also released on Christmas Day and they repeatedly mention it throughout the film so it's a Christmas movie Christmas is of course about celebrating the birth of a man who died for our sins and that sacrifice takes on a religious significance which could be seen as being Meridan Ellen she sacrifices herself in the end and dies on Christmas to save us from the darkness we then cut to Thomas waking up after having a wild night of sucking you what he wanders the Halls to find the place totally abandoned and it's just like he did when he woke up at the village now in the book Dracula had three female servants and they definitely left they definitely left an impression on me when I was young Monica beluchi suck me all night dear me however I feel this betrayal of NOS veratu Al Al makes it a much more faithful adaptation as it really Nails

27:02 the gothic horror like sexy vampires I love them but I don't know if it would have distracted too much Thomas then notices that he has Fang marks just like the original NOS feratu feeds on the chest as this offers a direct line to the heart at the end when he's leaning over alen we can also see a mark on his chest as well so that's likely where he was fed upon and it might be how he was inflicted with the vampiric curse next olok looks over the contract and presents it to Tom to sign it it's all a trick by olok so he can take Ellen and it's written in dakan language again to further conceal his intended plans I like how hesitant he is to sign this and he's clearly sweating he's doing the old click agree without reading the terms and conditions but he's just so desperate to give Ellen the life she deserves he's given gold but Ellen later

27:48 lambasts him for this as she basically says you sold me for some pieces of gold could sign with those biblical references as well as Judas of course sold out Jesus there it was for silver but you know it could time with that at least to some extent and we're reaching a lot in this video a huge shout out to Ryan at screen Crush she brought up how Society deems people should all act a certain way Thomas wants to grab the money but he doesn't because he knows it's not polite Ellen wants to be sexually open but she can't because she knows it isn't proper knock just wants to eat pigeons and everyone's held back from their desires however they all give in to them which in the end leads to their undoing orlock knows he should stop feasting on Ellen at the end but he draws P himself back in and stays for one more drink thus the sun's able to kill him and that's because he can't

28:33 control his desires he ends up losing out so it's a great thematic thing that constantly continues throughout the movie now olok won't mention why he chose a dilapidated house and he just says the Covenant is signed Covenant means property contract and yeah it just kind of ties into the legal sense in the original orok then creepily stared at the locker and said your wife has such a lovely neck here though he talks about the lilacs Thomas is also a when asking about the letters he wants to send to Ellen which in the original he actually managed to do poor Thomas he's then stuck in Luigi's Mansion which is a night mer scenario he's pretty much become orlok's blood bank and Thomas ends up discovering his coffin I love the design of it it just looks gothically medieval and it also has this heptagram symbol on it the coffin throughout all the incarnations is

29:19 deeply tired of the character and he has to sleep in the dirt from where he was buried reaching out to Ellen he then boasts her husband's gone and we seees he goes to feed on him he let itates as he does this and yeah such a great moment reminded me of the getting high seen in Breaking Bad I think it was and yeah the guy's just kind of completely out of it the use of silhouette and shadows also so incredible and it all calls back to the original a lot of these shots are actually done using convex lenses and mirrors and they create such a creepy effect the hounds as well are terrifying in reality they're cheze Shepherds and yeah pretty scary like I hope my dog doesn't come after me like that Nicholas Hull also talked about how they scared him on set as they'd be baring and be held back on leads just ready to run after him while this is going on Ellen also sleepwalks and mimics the movements of olok however

30:05 she falls and symbolically this shows how she's Fallen under his spell I absolutely love the raw emotion from ly Rose De and throughout she really Nails the movements this clear call backs to The Exorcist and later on she even does the crap this is a reference of the spider walk that was removed from the original cut but it's a great inclusion and you definitely feel that idea of possession mning in her sleep the doctor suggests tying her down and even having her sleep in a corset these will both bound her and it further plays into the themes of repression Ellen is immensely misunderstood by modern society and even in this trauma she has to conform to things that will correct her of course it's helped to correct your posture but this is done as a form of control of course it has since become a symbol or shorthand of the boxing of women into

30:50 the way that the patriarchy wants them to be they could also be very dangerous if they were laced too tight and I definitely feel that's what Edgar is saying they also have them say yeah if this doesn't work just use ether and yeah not really helping her now this is Meridan KN and those at the Asylum who are locked up in prison cells instead of being treated no also says he is coming which is something Ellen says throughout it's not until Von France arrives that Ellen's really treated with any sense of decency and somewhat respect at said Hospital knock has gone fully insane which is just like Renfield in the books his cells covered in dakan and he considers himself orlock servant just as he's reciting a gripping monologue we also see Ellen descend into a fit which Harding explains happens

31:37 every night at the same time we saw her have a similar one earlier on the beach and it does look like epilepsy this illness was stigmatized at the time leading to some people being put in asylums this further shows how Ellen's afflictions are thought of as weird rather than actually being diagnosed of course it is tied down and Harding starts to show his frustration at what he sees as a burden anyway when he's downstairs you might be wondering hey what's this pool table and why is there got no pockets as we know historical accuracy is very very important to egz and also to his movies this is actually a Caron billiard's table and instead of hitting the Q ball into a colored ball to get it into the pocket the aim is to hit a QQ ball into another opponent's QQ ball and then into the colored balls this scoring is known as a count which

32:24 is a very very NE Easter egg referencing the count to me anyway I'm seeing connect that there might not be now I have seen some criticism of Aaron Taylor Johnson's acting here with it it is a bit hmy and I feel like he appears to be just like he's acting in a play I think in general that agar's movies feel a lot like stage play so maybe that's why he made the choices that he does I guess you could say though he's been craving some real roles his character is an interesting opposite to Ellen though as he believes in the rationale of the time this ends up blinding him and just as he ignored his daughters he ignores Ellen's advice this leads to the death of his children and also the death of his wife now it was definitely a time of misogyny with hysteria being a common diagnosis this just covered a number of things though and was seen more as a casual

33:10 term whether a woman had depression anxiety or didn't hit the thumbs up they were all classed as hysterical later the doctor even says he witnessed women make up all manner of delusions as he dismisses the threat of the occult we then catch it with Thomas who's landed on the bank of a river and he's taken to a church he's healed by orthodox nuns and we get some more backstory on the count finally someone can speak English or German and they translate the words of the old nun she explains how he was a dark figure possibly a sorcerer and that the devil helped him become an undead vampire it kind of goes against the chess markings that were pointed out before but you know being bitten and then turning that's kind of how vampires are typically transformed to me at least however however this explains why he's so much more powerful than the vampire killed in the woods as he's seen as a

33:55 dark wizard he's also able to summon BS and can astral project because of this likeness to a dark wizard I actually saw a lot of similarities to Rasputin now in the folklore Tales he would have been class as a Solon Ari which was someone who was able to control animals this is what he does with the rats and it's also said they could manipulate the weather so ties in with the sudden rain at the start the storm here and so on and so forth it was also said that these Wizards could ride dragons but alas we don't get to see that however Romanian folklore also has a creature named zubor this is a roving Spirit who makes love to maidens by night so it seems like egar used a combination of different parts of the law to make orlock I really appreciate that he's delv this deeply into it and it adds a lot to the movie innocent's doctor then explains

34:41 Professor Albin as we see a boat behind him which for Shadows the Doom boat that's about to bring olok now the nuns tell Thomas that olok can't leave but as we know he's got that one trick vampire Hunters hate if he can transport his soil he'll be able to travel just take a plant pot we then go to Professor Von France who has mentioned earlier has the first name Albin Beyond being a producer on the original Albin grow also practiced the occult grow was friends with the legendary occultist alist Crowley and France clearly mirrors his interests around the time there was a massive rise in the interest in the ult with seances regularly being held France also represents the radical ways of thinking in society and how the world around them is being seen in New Way even Char Darwin's work brought the ey of religions and Humanity was starting to question their beliefs I feel like

35:27 ALB represents the old ways and this could even be seen in one of the final shots as he goes and looks out the window a crucifix Shadow appears on his face this implies that God's looking down on him and potentially has been watching the figure this then transitions to that God's ey view of the pair and th I feel like this was done on purpose obviously if you interpreted the crucifix in another way yeah let me know below as I'd love to get another point of view now we see that he's surrounded by cats and it's possible that one of these is the one that Ellen saw at the start later on Albin acts affectionately towards it and even gives it a treat from his pocket so it may even potentially be one of his and that's why brought some food for it perhaps he's been watching her and he may even be an instrument of God we also learn the cat's called Greta which is n of the original film there the character Ellen

36:12 was played by gr schroer and thus they brought across her name here when the men find him he he's muttering away to himself and he says how he nearly unlocked the final key of the mysterium lib quinique which is the five books of mystery this was a manuscript by cultist and math ician John de and Edward Kelly this gave insight into the occult and taught the reader how to practice magic the doctor then says sanum cannibals this means do not reveal what is sacred to dogs and is in the Bible under Matthew 76 this is actually a saying from Jesus and it basically means do not preach the word of God to those who are hostile Von Fran definitely adds an element of belief into the movie and later he says to fight what's in the darkness we must first accept it Albin then wakes up and replies with

36:58 nus Margaritas Fest antios this means nor cast your Pearls Before Swine and it's from the same part of the Bible it means do not give valuable things to those who will not appreciate them and could be about them not accepting what's going on Albin then explains a dark presence brought him to the country years ago which shows he's also in tune with the occult it's possible that he may have also been like Ellen or knock but the demon didn't take him over we then see the plague break out on the ship which then gets taken to the mainland plagues are often seen as biblical and it ties into the themes of the movie while this is going on KN strapped up into a chair which he later breaks out of like Renfield in the book he seems to have some very Hefty strength the boat is then seen and it begins its Doom Voyage in the book this

37:44 was called the DEA and like it is in the movie it's a Russian ship where each of the crew begin to perish the recent movie just about the boat was clearly ripping off alien and the passengers were trapped on it with the monster in the book it was explained he need needed food for his journey and thus the crew provided a constant Supply we learn later that orlocks also sucked the sailors dry and that each time he feeds he gains more power could have worded that better but this might even be why he needed Thomas as his first victim the hunters may have stopped him from going out and thus he needed someone to go to the castle so much of this plan was put in motion like years in advance and as Thomas being called out could even have further motives now in the movie instead of just being killed by a vampire the crew are also taken over by the plague it's essentially the Bubonic plague that was thought to have arrived in Europe

38:31 via Rats on boats you can definitely apply certain parts of the movie to the recent pandemic but I like that they don't beat you over the head with it not even the bit where the guy basically does a Boris Johnson and breaks the quarantine rules he created fron then meets Ellen as she explains that she's always had the gift of foresight and we leinn her father found her after the prologue scene this melan col left her open to visitors but in the end this is when she met Thomas he basically filled the hole in her life and thus this subsided her depression Beyond this though they also say that people with more animalistic sides often fall prey to this sex is seen as a Bas desire and it could be playing into the film's subtext now he explains how Ellen is far too much blood and at this time in Europe in the US leeches saw somewhat of a Renaissance blood leting was on the

39:17 rise and it was seen as a way to cure diseases that night we then watch as she go full Reagan and Albin also puts a needle through her wrist this was something performed at seances the Highlight a person was possessed the professor attempting to heal her from this possession is also just like the Exorcist Albin rattles off the names of angels and demons and she also wears a white night dress and jolts about in bed olok also speaks through her which is akin to what happened with Reagan on top of the excist her white night dress and long black hair are also reminiscent of Sadako from The Ring olok also mentions There Will Be Blood which mirrors knock later escaping saying that blood is life Fran then explains that the connection to OK has caused all these problems keep going like between fronds and fronds and fronds but I'm I'm just trying to keep it authentic eggar if you're watching

40:03 the guy also smokes the longest pipe I've ever seen and it just adds a bit of humor to the darkness especially as he's just standing there like in front of this big Christmas tree there is a dread storm Rising the boat scene then really plays into the horror here and we see his sailor's attempt to kill orok one thing that you might miss is that you can see his back amongst the raincoats just as the Sailor approaches the Box such a creepy detail and he then pounces from behind as the bow and Thomas arrive we see that it's chucking it down which ties into orlok's Powers we then see his knock escapes and as the boat travels up the river to the mansion it mirrors the shot from when Thomas went towards the castle the Mansion itself is falling apart and rotten with its rundown appearance also mirroring orock to me keep having to say that cuz I might be reaching and it's a lot of symbolism in

40:48 this movie now no also offers himself to the count instruct me charge me use me with this though all I could think about was Dr Meredith gray so pick me choose me love me now he wants to take out Thomas for orock however Ellen has to submit willingly she swore to him in the beginning but then made new vows to Thomas so she's Tor between the two and whether she'll give into the dark or the light I think knock also really wonders if he's going to get what he wants as he gets knocked to the floor he later says how he wanted to be the prince of rats but all olok wanted was his bride the penny clearly drops for him you know the're knocking on your door telling you what's going on um but in the end he

41:33 still continues to serve olok back home we see how Thomas is now sick just like how Ellen was the roles are reverse here though she understands what's going on the shadow of allock then expands over the city in a stunning shot with shadows being a running theme throughout the shadow was such an iconic piece of Cinema in the original and it highlights how he now has a hold of the city we then see Mrs Harding leave her children unaware of the harrowing events about to unfold they plead for her to stay and it ties him with the idea that children are more in touch with their sixense they haven't been battered down by the adults who've told them to think a certain way unless they've been able to sense what's coming this was a big theme in the others in which the children were able to see ghosts then there's something that feels like a reference to the poster from that as we have Anna walk the house with a lamp Ellen then says

42:20 that she wants to stay the night with her and they believe a crucifix can help again it ties in with belief and how we often tell solves things to cope with fear I did notice how just before speaking with orock she went to the window and didn't have this necklace on her and I didn't have it either and this may have left both open her husband at this time though was with the doctors and he doesn't believe a single Supernatural thing is happening this is supplemented by France who says how he's seen things that would make Isaac Newton crawl back into his mother's womb he's of course one of the most famous scientists of all time and he also discovered gravity I feel like this film's really tying into things like faith Science History and artart that lad point is namely with the German expressionism movement which we see lat throughout the movie expressionism came

43:05 with the idea that art should make you feel rather than just recapturing a moment up until then you know we'd had portraits battlefields and things that were heavily realistic however pieces like Edward monks the scream they were made to evoke emotion even the original movie NOS veratu it tapped into that German expressionism movement horor was an emerging genre and it was interesting a piece of film could make you feel fear you sat there you know it can't affect you but for some reason you still start to feel it so that line by France is really about what you feel and it clearly riffs off the art world this also extends into Romanticism which often had figures of women in bed some of the most famous pieces depict a demon on top of them and it's clear they influenc the movie NOS feratu then appears and he gives her three nights to

43:51 give herself willingly the cities tormented every night and these Terrors kind of reminded me of the plagues of Egypt they were sent to convince the pharaoh to change his mind and basically just act as the wrath of God those plagues included swarms of insects rivers of blood and children being killed rats are ramping in the streets and the bodies pile up on every corner vampires also hunger for blood and that of course ties in with the story We of course also have the daughters being killed which might play off the first son curse the Hardings are also expecting their first son so it could be tying into that doorways are even painted with crosses which is similar to the markings from the Bible so lots of things tying it together and the next day we see the plague spread Anna also describes it as suffocating and she seemingly has a connection to olok she asks what this insufferable darkness is

44:38 and it also helps to highlight how strong The Ellen is she's able to withstand orlok's power whereas everyone else just Falls victim to it Harding's frustration then comes to a crescendo at this moment he sees his wife and throws Ellen and Thomas out and is insistent he did everything he could however Ellen simply says he tied her up up and it highlights how uncaring he was personally though I don't think he's a bad dude it's just very clear he was completely out of his depth foran manages to locate the book that no used and they work out that NOS foru must return to its Earth they're unaware of what will happen if he doesn't but it highlights he can be defeated Ellen and Thomas then discuss orok and she ends up becoming possessed he's belittled by her she chastises him for leaving her and now orock HS her dreams on the surface we can also look at the idea of

45:24 satisfaction and how women require it in many ways though Thomas thought he was satisfying his wife by buying her a house with Maids she really needed something else beyond that orock satiates her sexual desires and this is why she craves him in the night you also get one of the standout shots where ly Rose Depp does her best Undertaker impression great acting as they make love Thomas sees a blooded vision of Ellen which we saw earlier at night but this time it's in color Fran then looks into the book which appears ancient and it describes the vampire we see a drawing of a woman with NOS veratu which is essentially the scene at the end of the movie it ties into those Romanticism pictures and basically sets up the ending it explains how the maiden will give herself willingly and builds upon the horse scene that we discussed earlier now while this is going on we see his Harding sleeps with a pistol I

46:10 wonder right if this was again a reference to couple as Dracula as guns were used throughout the movie which isn't a reach but it's worth pointing out however he's put under a spell and can't wake up and thus Anna has to go to her children she sees her kids violently killed in one of the brutalist scenes I've witnessed since wacking Phoenix started singing in Joker too at the funeral we watch as the coffins get carried and though it's not really nter EG yet it reminded me a lot of NOS veratu carrying his coffin in the original like it looked so goofy that he was just logging it around everywhere but I liked it like just carrying it under his own walking about speaking of coffins they then discuss how they need to go to Olo however Albin secretly leted out a plan with Ellen and instead this is just distraction similar to how Thomas kept orock away from his wife he needs to also do that in the night

46:56 though they could do this in the day they need to wait T night so allock can go to Ellen this is the only way to stop the plague and it's the only path to Salvation symbolically you could see giving into What We crave as being something that leads to Freedom instead of repressing it we can be who we are and ultimately this leads to Salvation when it comes to the plan though Harding's gone missing and he succumbs to the plague mourning his son our son our little son like are you sure it was even the sun mate cuz I don't know if they had the technology Italian an back then this is all just part of orlok's plan though and it's further isolating Ellen it's basically a manipulative boyfriend's tactics in which he's isolated from those around her I'm guessing his hope is she'll be like she was originally completely alone and therefore open to his comfort the bodies

47:43 of the Hardings also resemble a pair at the end and Thomas looks upon both in both scenes he really loses everything and he's such a tragic character but hopefully his mate left everything to him and yeah go get yourself a new wife Cho deciding them a strike in the night though they then head to oro's house filled with rats according to IMDb trivia defo had a scene with almost 2,000 of them in it the crews talked about how the rats stank and a mixture of real and CGI ones were used perspect trays were used to H the rats around and eggar said how none of them were lost which was apparently quite a feat as they go in the Tomb the fire keeps the rats away and it's very akin to Indiana Jones the baiton switches then reveal as knock as the one lying in the coffin it's also play on the typical conventions of the genre as we expect

48:28 orock to be there Howard highlights that all orock cares about is Ellen getting a play on that iconic Shadow shot we mentioned earlier it all builds this climax now this Shadow again has been seen in a lot of different Horrors and at one point was even referenced in The Shining appearing in a wedding dress in the end it's Ellen who's empowered whereas before she was repressed sexually here she uses it to achieve her own ends Ellen uses her body to trick orock and he's unable to resist also love how just before the pair kiss they're shot in the same way is when he went to her with the deal this also feels like a reverse of the witch which involved the protagonist making a deal with the devil there though she lost out R here it leads to her winning getting it on we then see him feed on her and though the morning's come he can't resist her body earlier he said he was an appetite and nothing more which

49:14 explains why he ignores his own self-preservation instead of being vaporized like what's typically shown we then see his blood pours out his eyes Ellen had this look throughout the movie and in hindsight it showcased her foresight she was actually predicting his death which was going to be at her hands the idea of tears running from his eyes also creates the imagery of sadness in the end she holds Thomas's hand and dies surrounded by lilx foresight makes it clear why she was so disgusted with lilx at the start and there she of course mentioned the wedding this is basically what's happened in the end and yeah again it just nicely plays really well when you go back on a second watch the shut of her holding them even looks like a bride holding a bouquet this was them consummating their Union but she broke the curse in a willing sacrifice it's also possible that the tear is tied

49:59 to Vlad himself when putting together the video our editor mat came across a website discussing an Affliction Vlad was thought to have had due to a protein and his tear ducts he may have actually cried blood website Popular Mechanics discover this detail and it could possibly build into this moment till death do they part and the ending also plays off The Motif death in the maiden we see her body entwined with a skeleton which is also how that's sometimes depicted this idea was also prominent German art specifically which fits in with the setting of the movie now Ellen could have been a simple helpless Maiden throughout but she's given much more agency and is the real protagonist of the movie she's known of this impending doom and lingering Spectre of death for a while now realizing she's going to be ignored by most she takes it upon

50:45 herself to tackle the monster only when she throws off the shackles of what's expected of a woman in this age is she able to save the entire city and her husband so it's a really nice ending and also my guy looks like he ski leg day like every day of his life ever either way aggus has crafted a faithful take on the iconic movie that he's thought about his entire life and that has basically inspired his career looking back at his life and doing my research I even saw that he did a school play on the original so the guy's been wanting to work on this for a while and yeah what he delivered I I think something special though the pacing you know it is a bit off at times the look and feel of the movie is some of the best Gothic horror we've ever had just like expressionism focused on the feeling when you're watching this you know you just get absorbed by the atmosphere bill scard

51:32 you know he's completely unrecognizable and as of making this video they've just announced all the Oscars and he's not in best actor and I'm like what the hell I'm trying to focus on this video but I'm so angry Lily Rose dep's been snubbed as well H but I think she's just a standout in the movie it feels like she really wanted to make a statement especially after the atrocious Idol on HBO so this is her just completely knocking it out the park and I think everyone involves got a lot and fruitful career ahead of them like I get angry Bill scores God was 32 and making this cuz I'm 36 and I'm like what what the hell am I doing with my life I am really looking forward to Edgar's take on the werewolf though which is his next project for 2026 set in 13th century England I can imagine this will be the guy's next Masterpiece but now though we have nose for art you and it's a great film that was in nose for fart Pooh

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