The relationship between horror and femininity is one that has never truly been exhausted throughout human history. From serving as a justification for the establishment and consolidation of patriarchal society to exploring possible paths for reclaiming and reevaluating these labels, cinema (particularly, as one might expect, horror) has a long history of reflecting on this theme. Eggers' Nosferatu fits perfectly into this discussion.

The relationship between Count Orlok and Ellen Hutter symbolizes this connection with the feminine self, caught between…

Herzog's Nosferatu is a creature that travels between life and death, between man and his relationship with nature in its various facets.
Herzog's vampire is a force of nature, made of the same inscrutability, mystery, and anguish as the mountains, the wind, the light, and the darkness.
If what remains of oral tradition manages to warn modern man about the ground he treads upon, in the end, they are but unheard whispers. And yet, nature acts, disregarding the pillars we…