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Rating: SLEEP SOUNDLY
A garish staging, bordering on the ridiculous, which draws here and there from a century of cinematic portrayals of the poor and cruel, desolate and diabolical, generous and unsettling "undead." No original take at all—if anything, at times Besson, running short on imagination, seems to "photocopy" scenes we've already seen. But unlike the shadows and glances of Murnau that let us imagine horrors never shown before, unlike Christopher Lee whom Hammer elevated to a vampiric icon for decades, unlike the melancholic Klaus Kinski of Herzog, the sensuality and opulence of Coppola, or the ambivalence and animalistic complicity of Eggers' protagonist... here you will feel no horror, no fear, no excitement, no pity... you might as well take a nap, so as not to completely waste two hours on your seat. Besson manages to waste an unusual budget (the only monstrous thing about the film) for a European production (comparable to Eggers’ Nosferatu). Feel free to bring even the faint of heart...
TERRIBLE: SKIP IT
(Recestalker 29/10/2025)
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