Much prefer Orlock the frail and/or Orlock the tragic to this Orlock the big and brutal, but sure, okay. A bit irritated by how much it brings Dracula in. Pay some fidelity to the fugitive infringement of 1922's! It was almost burned out of existence and this is the thanks it gets? Explicitly pulling from both does actually muddy the waters a bit, making certain things feel redundant, such as Ellen's locket of hair apparently drawing Orlock in as a…

"Although in his essay on the mirror stage Lacan conceives of
the gaze as a mastering gaze, he thought of it in precisely the opposite way later on— as the point at which mastery fails. In Lacan’s later work, the gaze becomes something that the subject encounters in the object; it becomes an objective, rather than a subjective, gaze. As he put it in Seminar XI, “The objet a in the field of the visible is the gaze.” The gaze…