Conjuring Nosferatu: Robert Eggers Presents

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2025 at 6:00pm

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6:00pm: Nosferatu at Walter Reade Theater

Robert Eggers, 2024, U.S., 35mm, 132m

For his fourth feature film, Robert Eggers exhumes what might be considered the urtext for all horror cinema: F.W. Murnau’s landmark masterpiece, 1922’s Nosferatu (itself an adaptation, or perhaps more accurately a transformation, of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula). Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) seeks to provide financial stability for his wife Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) by selling a decrepit local villa to a Transylvanian nobleman, the reclusive Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård). Hutter’s journey is marked by myriad strange and frightening events, but little does he know that his otherworldly encounter with Orlok will summon a seemingly unstoppable, plague-like evil to his own doorstep. Rendered with all of the rich detail and disarming atmospherics that have characterized his work to date, Nosferatu is Eggers at the height of his powers: an astonishing, meticulously crafted, and oddly touching parable about desire, disease, and death. Also featuring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Willem Dafoe, and others. A Focus Features release.

9:15pm: The She-Butterfly / Leptirica at Walter Reade Theater

Đordje Kadijević, 1973, Serbia, 63m
Serbian with English subtitles

A consummate work of cinematic folk-horror, Đordje Kadijević’s 1973 feature follows a young man who, in the hopes of persuading a rich, stern landowner to accept his bid to marry the landowner’s daughter, takes a job as a miller in the rural village Zaroshje. But no sooner does he start the job than a series of eerie events takes place at the flour mill, and it becomes increasingly apparent to the villagers that the mill has become home to a legendary vampire, Sava Savanović. Drawn from Milovan Glišić’s story “After 90 Years”—among the earliest modern treatments of vampires, predating Stoker’s Dracula by 17 years—and from regional folklore, The She-Butterfly is a visually and aurally rich example of an approach to horror cinema that is refreshingly distant from Hollywood’s genre conventions and tropes, and perhaps even more unsettling.


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