#Nosferatu 2024 costume design

[apoloadonisandnarcissus]

Everyone gushing over the 19th century fashion of “Nosferatu” (2024) while I’m obsessed with 16th century Hungarian-Transylvanian Count Orlok majestic costume:

Linda Muir said this menten coat is so heavy Bill Skarsgård had to wear a harness. I want everything for myself, the dolman and the boots.

[natalie-waite]

Lily-Rose Depp on the set of Nosferatu (2024)

[ararebloom]

NOSFERATU (2024) — anna harding's burial costume, designed by linda muir

[xaoca]

Bill Skarsgard in Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu (2024)

[retailther4py]

lily-rose depp for Nosferatu // painting by stephen mackey

[pagan-stitches]

So in this scene from Robert Egger’s Nosferatu when Willem Dafoe’s character is telling her that in another life she would have been a priestess to Isis, the shape of her bonnet was making me think of slavic flower crowns:

And then I was like, oh yeah:

Björk in Robert Egger’s The Northman.

[anamelessfool]

I love Robert Eggers. Not just for the understanding of what makes horror so romantic but for his understanding of how clothing communicates.

The stiff, mostly overlooked severity of 1830s Western European clothing. The neat efficiency and the shaping of human bodies into regular geometric shapes. Stripes and plaids caging and drop earrings quivering.

This fashion is brought into a world of beautifully created ethnic Romanian and Romani clothing as Herr Hutter stumbles into the ancient remote town. I felt so lost with him, the world so alien and irregular just from how the clothes hung from the townsfolk, and how his own clothing constricted him. The embroidered decorations that mimicked the wilderness, the layers of fabric and belt and headdress that responded to the remote whims of a different weather. It was like two civilizations meeting for the first time. He was so, so far from what he understood and what he could control.

And Orlok's Cassock is coat a further wander into the past. He's even more distant than the Romanian townsfolk, a shadow influenced by the opulence of an ancient Near East empire. Silk patterns mimic rows of cypress trees, copies of copies of copies of the sacred flames of one of humanity's oldest faiths and oldest tales. There's a memory of power there and it holds on refusing to die.

[mistandshcdow]

behind the scenes of nosferatu (2024)

[voluptuarian]

if any kind and resourceful soul out there has good reference pics of Ellen's mourning bonnet in Nosferatu (esp details, back, and side views) and would be willing to share I would be eternally grateful. So far this is the best I've been able to find and they're far from sufficient

EDIT: I did finally track down a some decent screencaps of the mourning bonnet. I would still love better images, and most of all detail shots (esp of the back) but together these give a fairly complete view of this lovely hat.

(More photos under the cut)

[mythwoven]

Oscar snub for the necrophilia vampire movie boooo tomato tomato

[therealjomarch]

Second time seeing Nosferatu. Just as bewitched as before.

I want Count Orlok’s coat so bad.

Need more powerful but cozy silhouettes in my wardrobe.

[s4w-tp]

After seeing Nosferatu twice in one weekend, my thoughts are

Outside of the AMAZING LINGUISTIC WORK which deserves recognition

Nosferatu (2024) as a film is not groundbreaking, but it’s not a bad movie! Decent vampire film. Pleased to see more Monster/Human romance/lust narratives happening on screen, especially given how prudish and puritanical this country is becoming.

Beautiful to look at; Award worthy costume and set design. The score and sound design is great, overall a nice movie-theater-experience type movie. I had a lovely time both times watching it; 7/10 would recommend seeing in the theater if you can.

However, the film as a whole feels short of its own potential in many ways.

I wanted Eggers to go above and beyond what he’s already done, but I felt he came up short of himself. The Witch was extremely fucking weird and creepy - I wanted Nosferatu to be 100x more weird and creepy than that; It was only somewhat comparable.

I feel like Nosferatu was a bit restrained. Maybe Eggers was under some constraints or pressure to keep it more “accessible” ??? which is… bleh.

It was too safe; Not bizarre enough; I felt like I was being edged the entire film for something truly disturbing and grotesque. The final scene of the film is gorgeously done but it’s not strong enough on its own to support the other 95 minutes leading up to it.

EVERYONE did a FANTASTIC job on this film; I just found the creepiness and horror was lacking some nuance.

I look forward to seeing how Robert Eggers grows as a director and I hope he doesn’t fall into a trap of making good-looking but otherwise unchallenging remakes.

[like-tears-in-rain-storms]

"Why is everyone looking so modern in historical productions nowadays?" and someone responds "No way directors are gonna let their Hollywood-hot 2020s actors look Not Hot" and "Historical accuracy was always bad."

SIGH

Bitch, what? Did you think Alexander Skarsgard, Claes Bang, Ethan Hawke, Nicole Kidman and Anya Taylor Joy looked not hot in The Northman? Even the much-maligned moustache of Bill Skargard in Nosferatu ended with a significant amount of viewers still wishing they could ride into the sunset like Lucky Luke did Dolly.

It's infuriatingly sad that people don't remember the period movie era of "Johnny Depp in big wigs and realistic dying-of-syphilis makeup" of The Libertine, or "spending the film's central love scene in days-old caked woman's makeup - and a significant amount of the film dressed as an actual woman - " of Stage Beauty or "accurate hair, facial hair and drab-colored, heavy,unyielding fabrics" of The French Lieutenant's Woman, or "people can get sweaty, their clothes can get rumpled and their hair dirty and unmade and still look incredible AND realistic" of The Last of the Mohicans (hell, or Gangs of New York, Leo's babyfacedness excluded), or the completely and tragically forgotten "you can have period films that treat the element of desire and eroticism with charismatic people who are not Vogue-cover level beauties or cookie cutter Hollywood starlets/beaus" in the immortal vein of The Piano and Dangerous Liaisons.

At least the "We're not gonna be afraid having our protagonist spend 80% of the movie under hideous prosthetics" - come on guys, even the king of fanservice movies that is Bram Stoker's Dracula did it.

Or you know. Sometimes the point is not having them be hot. Like, people obviously were still thirsting for Sean Connery in The Name of the Rose, but that certainly wasn't because Jean Jacques Anneaud's leaned in THAT way to rake in the audience (he doesn't even show ankle!), and the rest are all old medieval monks in period-accurate fabrics. Thankfully. Even Black Death was remarkably inoffensive amidst the usual clusterfuck that is the "middle ages" in film.

Not all movies always were Agora, Troy or Braveheart (and you know what, I'm gonna give Braveheart props here. Catherine McCormack's eyebrows were super realistic, as was the rest of her mostly).

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P.S. I am aware "Dangerous Liaisons" was remade into a miniseries, which sadly only proved my point (no offense to those who enjoyed it, I'm not even not trying to compare it to the old movie). You simply can't have the Marquis de Merteuil be sexier than de Valmont, no matter how dumb you write him to be (maybe Michael McElhatton would have been better as Valmont himself,instead of whatever prettyboy you had playing him. Can you imagine if they had changed John Malkovich and Keanu Reeves' roles in the original. Cringe, right? Eh, just as cringe now).

I am still being plagued by nightmares about when they'll remember The Piano needs a remake. shudders

[natalie-waite]

Lily Rose Depp and Nicholas Hoult behind the scenes of Nosferatu (2024)

[wakesirens]

nosferatu ruled btw. imo eggers’ best and the greatest adaption of stoker’s original work. the last shot is ART.

[frogshunnedshadows]

Costume design video for Nosferatu.