Herald Arts 🖼️ Horror blueprint Nosferatu is judged fair game for an Eggers re-imagining
Nosferatu remains one of the most influential films ever made and, if you’re arthouse horror director Robert Eggers, judged ripe for re-imagining.
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Former feature writer and music editor of The Scotsman, former arts editor and features editor of the Sunday Herald, sometime contributor to BBC Radio Scotland on (variously) music, films, visual art and pirates.
Former feature writer and music editor of The Scotsman, former arts editor and features editor of the Sunday Herald, sometime contributor to BBC Radio Scotland on (variously) music, films, visual art and pirates.
Nosferatu remains one of the most influential films ever made and, if you’re arthouse horror director Robert Eggers, judged ripe for re-imagining.
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