Nosferatu: A Jungian Nightmare

While my personal distaste at the prospect of yet another dreaded “remake” in Hollywood would normally have me rolling my eyes, I could hardly disregard Robert Eggers’s latest venture into the gothic and ghoulish with “Nosferatu”. Having watched the original silent picture as a budding film student, I was eager to witness how Eggers planned to reimagine this narrative for a modern audience — especially one so historically entrenched in the archaic Christian values of 19th century Germany.