I’m not really sure how I feel about Robert Eggers yet. For transparency’s sake, I have not seen The Lighthouse , meaning I have missed out on a total of one-third of his filmography. I don’t really have anything against The Lighthouse , it just doesn’t sound like my kind of movie.
I need a little bit more to my films than farting and masturbating. That’s what everyone tells me about The Lighthouse , anyway. But of his other two movies, I’m split.
I really enjoyed The VVitch . I thought it was brilliantly acted and very tense. It had a tremendous atmosphere, and the heaviness of the story grew and grew across its palatable runtime.
I genuinely think it was a top shelf horror effort from the 2010’s. Alternatively, I saw The Northman , and I just thought it was fine, at best. It felt overlong and unimpressive as a story.
I know it’s simply a predecessor to Hamlet, and that’s great. But it wasn’t anything I was wow’ed by at any point. It wasn’t bad or anything as far as I am concerned, but it just kind of was there with its weird nonsense story.
Despite all of this, I have long been excited for Eggers’ upcoming Nosferatu remake. It has a great trailer, and it allows Eggers to focus on what I feel he does best: lower-tiered, grounded horror, and not big bombastic action. And probably not jerking off while fantasizing about mermaids.
But again, who knows? I might love that movie if I see it, ha! I do like Eggers as a horror guy, though, is the point, so h.