Why Nosferatu Shouldn’t Be Remade

29 July 2015 · The Guardian

Pamela Hutchinson

Bram Stoker Estate account

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Pamela Hutchinson questions the proposed Nosferatu remake, arguing that Murnau’s imagery and the expressive power of silent cinema remain compelling in their own right.

Opinion essay published 29 July 2015, before Eggers’s completed film. It questions a proposed remake rather than reviewing the eventual 2024 production; the retained image depicts Murnau’s 1922 film.

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Related illustration: Max Schreck and Gustav von Wangenheim in Nosferatu (1922).Prana Film, 1922; public-domain still via Wikimedia Commons.