Nosferatu is impressive on all counts. On the acting front, you have Skarsgård performing a career-best—he’s been many monsters, but nothing as chilling and transformative as Robert Egger’s vampire. Hoult reliably delivers as a lovelorn broker thrown into the depths of darkness and torment, and then there’s Depp, the clear standout as she writhes, contorts, moans, and cries all in pleasure and pain. The sets are immersive (picturesque old Europe blanketed in Orlok’s creepy shadow) and the editing deceptively simple. You might be tempted to psychoanalyze What It All Means, but I suggest you just let the movie flow through through you like thick, dark blood. Submit to the darkness, like the film’s poster suggests, for a truly chilling watch.

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Actor: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Andrea Miltner, Bill Skarsgård, Christian Dunckley Clark, Claudiu Trandafir, Emma Corrin, Gregory Gudgeon, Jan Filipenský, Jordan Haj, Karel Dobrý, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Paul Maynard, Ralph Ineson, Robert Russell, Simon McBurney, Stacy Thunes, Tereza Dušková, Willem Dafoe

Director: Robert Eggers

Rating: R