Robert Eggers
After directing forward-looking cinema classics likeThe Witch , The Lighthouse , andThe Northman , director Robert Eggers deliver another horror masterpiece with his remaking of the 1922 silent vampire filmNosferatu . With the latter receiving incredible reviews , Eggers continues to present himself as one of the most typical cinema directors in mod Hollywood . Ironically , he has done so by demo absorbing , unquestionable tale set in the remote past that invoke folklore and mythology .
Long before he started working as a Hollywood filmmaker , eggar accomplished an amazing feat and directed his gamey school ’s stage production ofNosferatu . Even at this young eld , Eggers display his prodigious skills as a narrator and his great potential as a film director . Eggersclaimedthat it was only after address this stage play that he was inspired to start making motion-picture show , bring in him back toNosferatuand make the movie that ’s been scaring up audiences in theaters .
Robert Eggers
Prior to his year directing feature - duration movies , egger established himself as a more Graeco-Roman movie maker with a handful of short films . Most of them are cinematic period pieces that were almost lost to clock time but have gratefully resurfaced online . While each of these short films is different , they each present Eggers ’ distinct style of lay out stories in human race ’s past that search the terrors of personal and familial decay . Here ’s how Robert Eggers ’ first three short films lead him to directNosferatu .
Hansel and Gretel (2007)
Long before he directed 2015 ’s family line horror filmThe Witch , the new Eggers sour as a production designer on several short plastic film . One of those task was his first inadequate photographic film as a director : Hansel and Gretel . As the name connote , this 2007 half - time of day short adapts the classical Brothers Grimm poove tale of the same name , following the two titulary kids as they are captured by a kid - eating witch in the Ellen Price Wood . Presented as a dumb , black - and - bloodless film , Hansel and Gretelintroduces the Eggers ’ style for making classical stories set in bypast era .
This short motion-picture show ’s low budget is on full exhibit with its grainy , blurred visuals . But even with the want of audio from its shape , the motion-picture show ’s statute title cards provide poetic dialogue that makes the flick look like a visual storybook , which is especially fitting for the tarradiddle it adapts .
Hansel & Gretelis a bold and bright undertaking by the youthful director , featuring a chilling atmosphere and incredible set intent , specifically with the evil witch ’s candy house . One can even see hints ofThe Witchin this project , set the stage for Eggers ’ rise to gibbousness as a film director .
The Tell-Tale Heart (2008)
Eggers ’ next short photographic film as director afterHansel and Gretelwas an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe ’s classical little story of the same name , The Tell - Tale Heart . The horror music director effectively builds a terrifying and meticulous period piece with this film , which remains faithful to the source textile with its creepy atmosphere , rattling costume and make-up , and top - tier set designs .
The fact that Eggers accomplished all this with such minimum resources and dialogue reach this motion picture even more singular . However , this sophomore short features crisper , more eye - catching visuals , and well higher production value thanHansel and Gretel . As a result , this film displays Eggers ’ growth as a film maker since his previous short and right usher his skills as a horror fabricator .
Coincidentally , Eggers ’ 2d short film displays many inviolable line of latitude to his second feature of speech - length movie , The Lighthouse . Though they face stories in very different configurations , both films have a young man who ’s unbalanced of his demanding , mundane task and judge to wipe out his older employer and assume control of their habitation . Even though this was only his second short film as a director , Eggers found himself as a master of diachronic repugnance with slow - burning Gothic thriller .
Brothers (2014)
The 2014 short filmBrothersfollows two quarreling young sibling living with their mother in a farmhouse in the woods . Though the two boy are frequently at betting odds with each other , their life always change during a heated game of target practice session in the forest , in which one sibling shoot the other . found on the set and the attire on display , this film is Eggers ’s most modern - look picture to date . It may even be the only one of his cinema actually fructify in the present day . Despite this , Brotherspresents itself as another ocular and thematic precursor toThe Witch , which premiered roughly one yr after this film ’s acquittance .
Once again , Eggers presents a story with an sequester , realistic mise en scene and a category unit of measurement that slowly falls apart . However , Brothersdoesn’t show any witches or any other supernatural creatures . It only exhibit two brother who let their ire and hatred put down each other . While it ’s not a traditional horror story , it attain the same horrific effect egger afterwards essay with success inThe WitchandNosferatu .
At the same time , this short shows how egger ’ skills and style as a film producer have develop even further since he directedThe Tell - Tale Heart . standardised toThe Witch , Brothersboasts a high - character yield with its beautiful , raw imaging , tense narrative , and incredible performances from its young cast of characters .
The road to The Witch, Nosferatu, and beyond
In the end , seven years after directingHansel and Gretel , Eggers had evidence that he was ready to transition into helm feature - length horror films withBrothers . With all the classical period of time short films that he made throughout his movie life history , he displayed a creative , distinctive style of storytelling and Passion of Christ for the past times . All these qualities made him the perfect choice to helm aNosferaturemake and invigorate the story for the present .
Incredibly , TheWitch‘ssuccess in theatre led him to be hired to direct such a film as his second feature . Though this was a ambition come dependable , eggar sagely chose not to make it so soon and decide to further perfect his skills as he madeThe LighthouseandThe Northman .
consider all the clip and practice he put into his unforesightful films before makingThe Witch , Eggers do it the economic value of patience . Though the route to releasingNosferatuwas long , seeing how well egger ’ remake has turned out in theatre of operations , the motion picture proved to be deserving all those year of waiting .
