This post contains spoilers for "nosferatu".

What a better way to celebrate the holiday season of 2024 than with a supernatural horror nightmare. With "Nosferatu", director Robert Egers resurrected vampire classic in the form of a frightening dream of fever Only in Christmas time last year, reviewing the original 1922 film as a stylish horror with a kind of perverse fairy tale in his center. In Egers' film, the title of Wamp, played by Bill Scarsgard, lusts by Lily-Rose-Depp Ellen Hutter, eventually traveling from his castle to fall apart in the mountains of Transylvania to her hometown of Wisburg, Germany. There, he feeds on her blood in a pseudosexual embrace that eventually results in his death when sunlight interrupts the couple's perverse attempt.

If the disturbing vampireback of vampire is not your business, Egers make sure to do what makes it best by building a world that absorbs you so completely, you really forget that you see as a fictional story. The director accomplished that feat most efficient when he realized what was Lifetime sleep in the form of his visceral Viking EP "Northman". But the same moreness is in the heart of Nosferatu, with Production Designer Craig Latrop, lifting a seriously impressive series of 60 sets through several sound scenes in the Barovovi studio in Prague. While several scenes were filmed at the site, the film remains a miracle of the way Latrop and Egers made the city of Wisburg from scratch, with the designer of production telling Conde Nast That its version of the bar is provided as "a collage of places".

Even if you were not everything done from the story, then you must be astonished to the movie "Egers" for its comprehensive atmosphere, transportation of tone and striking production design. What could be a surprise, however, is how all those things were influenced by a classic superhero movie, without Egers even understanding it.

In an interview with Happy sad confusedRobert Egers was asked who directors and films "obsessed" as a 14-year-old. Without missing a fight, the director named Tim Burton before revealing that he recently reconsidered "Batman Returns" in 1992 and was surprised to find out how similar the Nosferatu film was. After noticing the "snowy Gothic atmosphere" of Burton's superhero blockbuster was "shockingly similar" to much of his horror film, Egers claims that this influence is something he "never considered" when he made the film.

This discovery becomes more detailed how much you think about it, as the similarities between "return" and "nosferatu" are far more numerous than you can understand at the beginning. Burton really let his cheater fly with "Batman returns", Making her own nightmare snowstorm, which sees Dani Davito's penguin on Gotham, as well as Wisburg's nosphere. Bolch's production designer is Gotham to use Craig Latrop's phrasing, "Collage of Places", which fits artistic deco design with fascist architecture and a pronounced expressionist style that makes Batman returns easily the most sincere film Batman. Moreover, just like Wisburg in Nosferatu, Gotham of "Returns" was created in full on Soundstages at the Warner Bros. Studio in Burbank.

If that is not enough to convince you of Burton's influence on Egers, this is just the beginning of the parallels that reveal a total of a clear and significant vine from the original "Nosferatu" in 1922 through Batman. Eggers of Eggers Egers of Eggers Film.

In his happily confused interview, Egers points to specific visual similarities between "Nosferatu" and "Batman Returns", pointing out as Wayne Manor's Tim Burton's version looks very similar to his version of Grenwall Manor, the dilapidated House of Orlock. Not only are the exteriors similar, for the first time we see Keton Bruce Wayne in "Return", he is shown sitting alone in a darkened room, very reminiscent of the figure of Count Orlock as he argues in his sepulcher, a crumbling castle, Waiting for his ascent's time to arrive. Keaton, Wayne, also advocates to fill the light of the bat signal that shines through the window at a moment that is vaguely reminiscent of the way Ellen Hutter herself is attracted to her Nosferatu shadow window.

The parallels just go from there. German expressionist style that so strongly influenced Tim Burton was also an integral part of The film that defined the vampire films: the original 1922 "Nosferatu". Moreover, Burton himself made no secret to be a fan of that film, to the point that he named one of the villains of "Returning" after the actor showing the title monster in that original film. Max Shrek at Christopher Walken is a direct referral to the German actor of the same name, who first played Nosferatu.

In a more common sense, "Batman returns" and "Nosferatu" share a commitment to the atmosphere and tone that makes them intrinctly linked as part of the vine that are champions in such immersion films. For me, the most striking thing about "Returning" was that feeling of being completely shrouded in the movie world. As a kid, I always thought I loved the movie because it was a movie in Batman - and I did. But as I grew up, I realized that Burton was astonishing, and a whole generation of children seemed to be fully realized and taught us something about our sense of aesthetics in the process. Similar to Robert Egers, I lost myself in the world created by Burton and Bo Welch, to the extent that it helped shape my understanding of aesthetics and my artistic sensitive - something clear to Egers, who apparently made a movie in charge of "Returning" without Even to realize it.

All this talks about the fact that "Return" has never been a really superhero movie. Indeed, Burton has taken several years over the years to make "Tim Burton Film", not a movie "Batman" - the one that has not caused a lack of controversy over his dark tone when he debuted. But it is also what makes it such a miracle of film. Burton 'Batman "made Warner Bros. So much money that he was essentially given free to create everything that felt the nightmare the type he wanted for the sequel. It didn't really happen in the superhero films, especially in the era of Marvel Cinematic Universe, which Marvel Studios is currently in the process of trying to fix it before it is too late. But Nosferatu is probably a spiritual sequel to the "return" in the sense that used its horror foundation to understand a similar artistic vision completely uninterrupted.

Now, the question arises Will Robert Egers ever make a movie in Batman, because it's a movie that seems to be saved on self -film. For Batman's fans, who have yet to see the character presenting himself as a cryptid-something that Egers would no doubt doubt-this movie looks like unsuccessful. With JAMESEMS GUN is preparing to start his new DC universeHe can do good to at least consider the idea ...