Some Orthodox rites are our brothers, don't know about the rite showed in the movie though... regardless, it was an branch of Christianity shown in a good light
@TomHawks-k8l I'm so very sorry that you feel that way. I sincerely hope the East is able go rejoin the West one day and the West is open enough to listen to the grievance of the East. I pray. For nothing less than the reunification of all of Christendom.
I loved this film so much. As an Orthodox Christian and a filmmaker, I found it refreshing to see our faith presented in a positive light and one that respects not only our tradition, but the various nuanced beliefs. Vrykolokos, exorcism, the monastics, and the belief in Eastern mysticism by Dafoe's character just helped build a great theological foundation behind this demonic entity. I blew my homies mind after leaving the theatre when I was mindlessly explaining our faith.
Dafoes character was an occultist luciferian. This film doesn't represent Orthodoxy in a good light the same way a pornographic film wouldnt represent it just because a priest would have a cameo in between two scenes. People falling for the pretty cinematography are doing mental gymnastics into somehow believing this collection of obscene scenes is a good Orthodox film.
As a Romanian who could understand the language in the film - I don't find them presented in a positive light, just neutral in regards to presentation and obviously "right" in relation to Vampire lore. I heard the same superstitions and old lady "pleading" that Romanian ladies say today about the air current and the "evil eye". I found all the Romanian characters great btw, good acting, got flashbacks and second hand embarrassments! As a follower of occult & religious topics online, I also found the Solomonari sect in Germany to be kinda ridiculous and in strong contrast to the presentation of the orthodox monastery which was veridic. I'm gonna want to look up that supposed sect to see how much of a film invention it is, but why is a heptagram used at all?
I’m Catholic and I had the same reaction to the movie you did. It’s funny how so many vampire films show that Christian sacrament and sacramentals are effective against the undead. Yet none of these films ask if that means the faith is true. I was fascinated by the movie but bothered that the end solution we were supposed to accept is that Ellen had to die to appease the account. But I loved how you pointed out that Thomas fully recovered under the care of the sisters and there was actually an alternative presented in the film. I didn’t think of that before. Thanks for pointing that out.
I mean, the original frightnight dug a bit into the theme of faith. I don’t remember it being a major theme, but it was enough to give a satisfying ending to the movie
This is a fascinating perspective on Nosferatu, and I appreciate your thoughtful exploration of its spiritual elements. While it’s true that the film diverges from Bram Stoker’s Dracula-with Count Orlok not being defeated by a religious figure like Van Helsing but instead by Von Franz, an ‘occultist’-there’s another layer of meaning that can be understood through the psychological lens of Carl Jung. Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and a Christian man, raised in the Protestant tradition, who explored the connection between the spiritual and the psychological. One of his central ideas was the process of individuation, the journey of integrating all parts of the psyche-the light and the dark, the known and the repressed-to become whole. This process parallels the Christian path of repentance, facing sin, and seeking renewal in Christ. In Nosferatu, Count Orlok symbolizes the shadow-the repressed, destructive side of the human soul, encompassing sinful tendencies, fears, and desires. Ellen, who sacrifices herself to defeat Orlok, represents the ego and anima (the feminine soul), and her journey involves confronting these dark forces. By willingly offering herself to Orlok, she brings his shadowy power into the light, destroying him. This act symbolizes shadow integration, the process of bringing what is hidden into awareness to achieve transformation and wholeness-individuation. Von Franz, however, is much more than a mere occultist. He represents Carl Jung himself, and his name is no coincidence. The name ‘Von Franz’ is likely a deliberate merging of Carl Jung with Marie-Louise von Franz, one of his closest collaborators. Marie-Louise was a Jungian analyst who deeply explored the feminine side of the psyche, the anima, and its role in psychological transformation. By naming the character Von Franz, the film hints at Jung’s integrated anima-a union of his rational, masculine side with the intuitive, feminine wisdom symbolized by Marie-Louise. This integration is key to the narrative because Nosferatu heavily emphasizes the feminine side of the psyche. Von Franz is the only character who truly understands and cares for Ellen. While others fear or dismiss her, he helps her confront the dark forces within and around her. This dynamic mirrors how Jesus comprehended Mary Magdalene, seeing beyond societal judgment and recognizing her spiritual depth and humanity. The historical setting of the film reinforces these themes. It takes place in a time when rationalism and materialism were overtaking faith, leaving space for spiritual darkness to hide in plain sight. This context resonates with Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous declaration, ‘God is dead’, which warned of the moral and spiritual crises emerging as society shifted away from its reliance on God. The absence of a religious figure like Van Helsing to combat evil in Nosferatu reflects this cultural shift. Instead, Von Franz uses psychological and esoteric understanding to confront Orlok. This change highlights the modern struggle to reconcile faith with a world increasingly denying the existence of deeper, unseen forces. Ultimately, Nosferatu can be appreciated on many levels, including the rich Orthodox Christian lens you’ve brought here. While Jung’s ideas come from a psychological tradition, they also explore the necessity of transformation, the integration of darkness and light, and the spiritual battle within-a battle that deeply resonates with the Christian understanding of sin, grace, and renewal. Nietzsche’s warning about a world unmoored from God also echoes through the film’s narrative, showing the dangers of a society that allows darkness to fester when faith is replaced by pure rationalism.
The nuns and the priest were the only characters that knew what they were doing Everyone else was lost in unbelief or in the dubious crafts of solomonic magic
The superstitions of the villagers also seemingly worked. It seemed that between them and the church, the land had come up with ways to contain, but not get rid of, Orlok. It's a nice parallel to how a mix of culture, medicine, and general care from the powers that be can inure populations to sickness.
Self sacrifice is a Christian virtue.. so.. I guess in a way. But as someone stated, the nuns and the priest were able to free Thomas of whatever oppression he was suffering from Orlack's presence and they were correct that he shouldn't have left.
I never took it as the occult “winning” because she still died which caused Hutter suffering. Seivers also made it clear earlier that von Franz was mad and had kooky ideas. As soon as Hutter left the monastery after they told him not to, he left the light and entered the darkness, and even with the sun rising, Ellen is dead and that darkness remained. Yes she defeated Orlok, but that was the price for conjuring his spirit all those years ago. That’s what makes it scary, from the moment the film opened, she had entered that darkness, and there was no way out. As a Christian, I can see how that idea would upset some, but at the end of the day it is a *horror* movie. Eggers has said himself his deepest fear is going crazy and steeping too far into the occult. Just my two cents.
It is not about "the occult" or "religion" winning, but about science and rationality failing against an evil that represents the shadow self of the uncounscious mind, "apettite".
It is interesting that the scene of presenting Ellen as a priestess of "Isis" which is one of the many parallelisms that is often equated to Christ, and that she is our "salvation" in the next breath, and presenting Orlok as "death himself" that's very much a Christological parallel, since Christ came to defeat not sin, but Death itself. Beautiful cameo of Orthodox Nuns though.
I'll paste here a comment I had left on another video about how the characters in Nosferatu fail in their attempts to cope with the situation: One of the reasons this film has a bad ending (though it could've been even worse) is that Ellen's sacrifice is the last resort to ward off evil but there should've been much better alternatives if the other characters had listened. For example the clinician and Thomas's rich friend that cling to their materialistic worldview for far too long, the latter one especially. Thomas by leaving the church before being fully healed, he arrives to Ellen in absolute terrible shape and is unable to save her. Thomas and Ellen themselves, one focuses on the material wealth and has business deals with shady (demonic) characters, the other succumbs to her own curiosity and probably lust. Von Franz (i.e. Jung) is the only one who knows what they're actually dealing with but he is also a little bit too enthusiastic about Ellen's sacrifice.. Anna, the most Christian character, holds to her faith but is ultimately unable to save herself and her children because it's a sort of naive faith which doesn't account for the darkness that is present in all of us. Therefore unable to deal with it spreading all around her family and city.
"One of the reasons this film has a bad ending (though it could've been even worse) is that Ellen's sacrifice is the last resort to ward off evil but there should've been much better alternatives if the other characters had listened." I got the impression that Ellen's sacrifice was presented as first solution, not last resort. As soon as von Franz found the answer in the book, this was his plan all along, doing everything possible to delay the men from being with Ellen at night.
Yeah, in the book, Harker is taken in by a Catholic hospital directed by a Sister Agatha who then contacts a local English Mission Church to wed Jonathan & Mina.
I told my wife that i suspected Eggers was Catholic when we saw the Northman because there was so much Christian symbolism intertwined in yhat movie, but now i see that he most likely is Orthodox. Either way I love Eggers and his films. They tell you he's Christian without telling you he's Christian
Very insightful, I had alot of these same thoughts watching the movie. Occultism was sadly part of my journey before I found Orthodoxy. It 100% is/will blow up here over the next couple of decades as things get more serious.
I've been a catechumen for a couple of months now, and seeing the schemanun made me so excited. Even more excited that Orthodoxy is growing so much that I can actually find Orthodox content on the internet about modern things. Thank God for this!
I would be interested to see your thoughts on 'The Witch' (2015) given the setting of the horror within the puritan sensibilities of the settlers in New England.
That movie is explicitly satanist. It portrays faith as powerless against evil. An interesting aspect is how it leads to the conclusion that the Calvinist god and the devil are not really distinguishable from each other. The director does know the tenets of Calvinist theology.
I have seen the original Nosferatu, and that suffices for the present time. It was your tangential material that attracted me to your video, as I am a fellow Orthodox Christian. Your description of the homeless in California was heart stirring; I live in Houston so I can relate to the problem. I look forward to future videos and your comments on the Orthodox phronema.
I'm not Orthodox but I was also pleasantly surprised at seeing its representation in the film. The occult origins of the script used by Orlok is what mainly got me interested in learning about the first film, and Eggers did my favorite film of all time, The Northman, so twas a match made in Vahalla for me. 10:40 VERY true.
I’m LDS, but absolutely love Orthodox Christians. It was great to get not only a good representation of Christianity, but of the Orthodox Church, given its shown way less than Catholicism and Protestantism. Which seems crazy because you guys hands down have the best imagery. Love your thoughts about the movie. I loved all the Nosferatu movies and even dress my first born as him for his first Halloween. He came out looking like a goblin vampire so it just fit so well. One thought I had about the end ritual as you were taking was Mark 9:38-40. Maybe the “occult” version is just an apostatized version that is now shrouded in mystery because it is no longer in its original context.
While I do not share your faith anymore, having grown up as an orthodox I still have a strong affection towards orthodox art like icons, architecture and especially orthodox choir music. And because of that I was pleasently surprised by the strong presence of orthodox imagery in the film's scenes, not only in the monastery but also earlier at the inn and on Hutter's journey to the castle. I wish horror movies would use it more often instead of always relying on the same old catholic imagery we always see in every religious horror movie.
Catholic here. Big fan of this thoughtful analysis. I think we have common ground on pretty much every element to complain about in this movie. If Robert Barron hadn’t been promoted into a busy bishop’s position, I would’ve loved to hear his thoughts about the film.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. Honestly that was a big reason and motivation for wanting to start this channel. The bishops (both Catholic and Orthodox) have a million and a half things on their plates, so I think this sort of cultural engagement and analysis is where the laymen can shine most brightly.
Thank you SO MUCH for this video. I just watched the movie and loved 90% of it. The ending I was pretty troubled with. I don’t love succumbing to evil to defeat it. The thought crossed my mind that it’s similar in a sense to the ending of the Exorcist but in that movie the priest is playing the role of Christ “becoming sin so we might become the righteousness of God” and that doesn’t seem to be what’s happening in Nosferatu. You contrasting the Orthodox healing vs pagan sacrifice made a lot of sense and helped me understand the movie better.
Very astute regarding the theme of peoples need for the spiritual. This was probably the most intelligent "review" video I've seen on this film. I really enjoyed the film as well. A theme that really stuck out to me is the extent to which we can be damaged or damage ourselves through the relationships and experiences we have, as well as the choices we make. There is no humanity in Orlok, he is only the shell, maybe some of the ego is there. But for whatever reason, he made a pact with something very evil. And there is nothing really left besides the unnatural torture of his undead state. How far we can veer through attachment, anger, list, control. It's very alarming. I liked that the film doesn't try to make the dark occult seem attractive. It's definitely a warning to those of an impure heart. I really see Ellen as more of a victim. Everyone Orlok has contact with he deceives and manipulates, his end is really destruction. He strong arms everyone or tricks them. He gets away with it because HE knows the rules, and takes advantage of this "secret knowledge" to impose HIS will upon another. Maybe the last bit of humanity in him is what brings him to Ellen, he knows how to end the plague, or be "sated" as the insufferable spirit would say. I feel that is the only thing left, and it's definitely mired in list, anger, etc. He looks like a blind beast greedily sniffing her out.... Who could see that innocent new love, and have no emotion or compassion for it, but be filled with lust. But a lot of people ARE like that. The dangers of the material ... His whole paradigm was control in life (speak not of it again!) Hard to say if there is anything left. What a danger it is to be so attached and need to control all around you. It could drive you to centuries of unbearable suffering and the continuation of it without end, or hell...
Interesting that you cited John Dee, because the conjuration circle used by Renfield in this movie is the Sigillum Dei, wich originally comes from the medieval grimoire Liber Juratus and was later incorporated into Dee's system of Enochian Magic.
As a cradle Catholic, I always recognised the Judeo-Christian themes in Bram Stoker’s original Dracula - light overcoming darkness, self-sacrificing love (agape), etc. However, I was not familiar with the 1922 Murnau adaptation. I read that both Murnau and Max Schrank (the actor playing Nosferatu in the 1922 film) were avid occultists. The occult themes were inserted into the Bram Stoker narrative so that Murnau and Schrank could play out their deepest darkest desires. This all sat well with German expressionism and Jungian psychology, popular at the time, and a kind of therapy for a nation recently defeated in war. E.g., all the advanced German science and technology could not save the nation from defeat. A return to the ancient occult could somehow restore Germany.
I did not expect a video about the movie Nosferatu to turn into a diatribe about how people choose to be homeless or have a spiritual problem. I've heard people use this argument to shut down homeless shelters and charge homeless people with a crime for sleeping outside. Besides making me look at you sideways, what does this have to do with a film about vampires?
Excellent video! I am Catholic as well but I loved seeing the representation of Orthodoxy and your analysis on the characters ultimately resorting to imperfect occultism instead of their faith when science fails, resulting in pyrrhic victory. In that sense while the film wasn't made to be a Christian film, we can certainly view it as one subjectively.
I loved that scene in the Movie ! Also in the village you can see the gypsies doing the sign of the cross. I said to myself "I wonder if they are going to show any Orthodoxy" and I was pleasantly surprised 😅
It's interesting that you say 2025vCount Orlock looks Ukrainiam. My first though when I saw the film was that he looks like a messed up version of Ukrainian folk singer Kozak Siromaha. I loved the folk elements of this movie so much - the Roma costumes were gorgeous!
Vampires are a serious topic because of what they symbolize and the long history of suffering they’ve been part of. If anyone takes them seriously in their original context the way this movie does, I think that depth comes through whether or not the filmmakers are aware of it.
I think you missed the point. The film is very Jungian in the idea of The Shadow. Thomas is not healed by the Orthodox Nuns. No one is healed until Ellen sacrifices herself by becoming one with Orlok, ie her shadow. Everything else is implied to be impotent in the face of the destruction that Orlok wrought.
Furthermore Van Helsing and Van Franz are both occultists and not known to be particularly religious, only in the idea that the religious iconography works against Dracula. This is not present in Nosferatu. It is the resistance to the integration of her shadow that causes all of the issues. The reliance on Occultism, Christianity, and modern science that makes it worse. Additionally I find your analysis of the unhoused completely reductive.
I perked right up when i saw the Nun and chuckled to myself at the end of the movie that they were the only ones that actually helped anyone in the whole movie. Not really too thrilled with them wearing Schema robes but hey.
If you don't know Orthodoxy is actually being represented in more and more films that are coming out lately there is this new film on Netflix while I don't think it's new it came out like 2 years ago called the good dude or man or something it's an action film with Ryan Gosling and that chick that was with him in Blade runner. And the main bad guy is Superman Chris Evans Gourmet in the guy who played Captain America I forgot I don't want movies that much but the cool thing about this movie is there's an orthodox funeral within the first 30 minutes and then one of the main characters actually does the prayer rope. Although it's not the traditional ones the wooden beads but still it's pretty cool
Like, Von Franz is a christian occultist but his powers are rather limited. Marx pointed out that the vampire was a symbol for capital and it's quite clear that in this perspective Marx/Von Franz has quite clear knowledge of the current situation but is deeply incapable of dealing with the deep spiritual dimension of the situation - Marx realized that capital was this material/demonic force possesing people to act in a certain way and he hoped the material force of the working class would overcome this and show itself to be the force of history which we know through Hegel's Böhmeanism is God knowing himself, in Hegel's case reaching an apex with jesus on the cross and history being from a post millinial perspective being the kingdom being build on earth. What Schelling and Kierkegaard constantly returned to was the individual christian soul in all of this and the freedom it has. Kierkegaard has many frustrations with danish Lutheranism and it's inadequacy with adressing the spiritual need which arose in his time. Btw both Kierkegaard and Marx is so contemporary that both Kierkegaard, Schelling and Engels were in the same room at one point.
I think the idea of having a good aspect of the Creation sacrifice itself to the dark and corrupted spiritual essence of the opposing Universal principle, is in fact of zoroastrian origin. It tells the story of how evil only has spiritual significance and can't trully contaminate, only corrupt matter, and such it needs to adhere to a form of established matterial aspect of the Creation to have it's influence take root. This is also the begining of the end for this Evil, because such things are foretold and after much strife and suffering all of the Evil aspect will be consumed into the Light.
It’s so interesting because the mystic apostolic prayer actually worked in contrast to the post reformation enlightenment era rational efforts which were absolutely useless
In the 1992 movie Dracula, the young couple got married in the orthodox ritual to protect themselves against Dracula. Unfortunately, this didn't happen in "Nosferatu."
We need to come back to God. Not Shivas, Allahs, Kalvins, Luthers, Popes, Patriarchs and other bullshit religions. To live by God commandments and to die by them, and we all good.
@@The.Tabellion I also purchased Seán Manchester's book some years back, giving his firsthand account. And although the price on Amazon has exponentially gone up (possibly because, as it appears to me, it might no longer be in print but maybe has ceased production) it is nonetheless a great read and may still be found elsewhere. It is a very interesting story and I have personally corresponded with Manchester himself via social media and he seems like a person of an earnest and straightforward character so much that I cannot help but entertain the possibility that he may have truly experienced and fought against some kind of real spiritual evil. His account is also backed up by a number of eyewitnesses who corroborate his account with purported sightings and visitations as well as those directly involved in the investigation.
If I'm Hutter, I'm gonna be like, "All y'all are comin' with me!" Instead, he decides to deal with that dude who sleeps in a sarcophagus with whatever occult and science he's got available back home.
Why do I feel that the German city was actually supposed to be Düsseldorf? To my knowledge Düsseldorf was connected to the vampire mythos somehow. Perhaps in Stokers Dracula. I’m not sure…
18:00 umm any discussion of the disgusting embezzlement of aid to the homeless/unhoused. I agree throwing money at the problem won’t solve the issue, but I think you mislabel the problem as those in need rather than the for-profit laundering of your taxes into a managerial class who repeatedly fail upward.
Oh I completely agree. I casually mention the money laundering that goes on with homeless relief at 17:30 but I definitely agree that these for-profit organizations have a financial incentive to keep the problem going.
Research indicates that the best solution for homelessness and all its associated problems is actually just to provide free permanent or semi-permanent lodging and people to help guide the previously unhoused individuals in rebuilding their lives.
still going strong, but not growing too much. The percentage of first generation atheists is now at a size where the reverse seems to happen as well: kids growing up without Religion and not familiar with the questions and criticisms their parents struggle with, seem interested in the spiritual
As a Catholic and a worker at a faith-based high capacity low-barrier shelter (meaning people who come to us from the streets, not couch-surfing twenty-somethings) with a husband who works as a case manager for our local unhoused population I cannot even begin to detail all the ways in which you are wrong about homeless people. Not even in the “I do this work and I’m offended” way, I mean the ways in which you are literally factually wrong about the current condition of homelessness, who is homeless, why, for how long, and how they can be helped. This wasn’t a video about Nosferatu, this was an anti-homeless screed stuffed inside a film review lmfao. I do not for even a second believe you’ve ever spoken to a homeless person or been around one who trusted you as a fellow human being long enough for you to overhear or be told “god told me I can use meth.”
Vampires suck and they are not cute! It’s good to get that straight when we talk about them. One more thing: why does every film these days have someone surnamed Skarsgård in it? Also: Dacian is pronounced either ‘day-see-an’ or ‘dach-ian’ but not ‘dossiyan’. One last thing: Olga Kurylenko’s character in The Death Of Stalin, the heroic pianiste tells the tyrant she has no fear of him or of death because she knows as an Orthodox woman that her soul will dwell in eternity. Those are the last words the monster reads in this life, which cause him to die of a stroke. That’s not trivial.
Schema-nun. It's a nun who has attained a high level of spiritual excellence and the highest "rank" of monastics in the Orthodox Church. She's distinguished by the pattern on her monastic habit. If you Google schema nun, you can see what one looks like. She has the white pattern (known as the Great Schema) on her clothing.
The Von Frans guy was an idiot and didn't have a clue what he was doing and his weakness and incompetence cost a woman her life. If Hutter had brought the gypsy guy with the hat with him (the one who staked a vampire at the beginning) or an Orthodox priest from the monastery, things would have played out very differently. That guy in the hat (who was clearly Orthodox) was depicted as being so strong of faith and fearless he would have made a better Van Hellsing type of character than the occultist guy. There was a lot of potential and missed opportunity here for Christ and Christianity to be depicted as triumphant over the Satanic evil. Instead they just made the solution to cancel out Satanism basically just ultimately another form of Satanism, which gives a false hope. You cannot reasonably have hope in anything that is outside of Christ.
@@wolfh9831 Even moreso, it was a remake of Nosferatu which was a secularized version of Stoker's very Christian novel. The Universal, Hammer, and almost every remotely faithful adaptation of Stoker's story does feature Christian faith.
@@wolfh9831 Nonetheless, it is a reflection on our society and has a message, and that message is damaging to souls. Our culture is being dragged further and further away from Christ and this is not a good thing.
I feel you, but at the same time, its realistic. There was no definitive victory over evil, mostly because their method was to rely on other spiritual and esoteric resources, ignoring one simply and powerful truth. Only Christ can lead us to win over evil.
I thought this version was gorgeous and interesting, but godless. The absence of crosses and God is noticeable, and the Christianity of the family Ellen lives with does nothing to ward off Orlok. The children are slaughtered after reciting the Lord's Prayer before bed. I get the Ellen/Christ parallels, but the occultism was much louder.
The movie should have had more scenes in Romania going more into the folk lore and the mysticism the movie got boring once it moved to Western Europe but that explains a lot hyper rational society’s are the most boring 😂
I agree with the occultic interpretation . I don’t see the ending as positive. It seems like Dafoe’s character is a luciferian false light, the last frame shows the sun shine on him ominously like a light-bearer. Even the part when he says ‘I wrestled the devil like Jacob wrestled the angel’, reminds me of The Lighthouse like an intertextual narrative, as well as a rebellious being climbing the ladder bringing down fire. There’s also mention of ‘solomonari’ type rituals , I believe the magic trick here is that The Professor is Orlak when he was younger and he brings himself to life as a human again, as a vampire to beast transformation. Thomas expresses that he got tricked and goes on one knee like a knight/prince next to his sleeping princess as if it’s a fairytale and he’s set to go on a journey. Eggers next film is set to be a medieval epic called ‘The Knight.’ So this could have an ‘empire strikes back’ type ending in his filmography Also, the Orthodox element is great. It’s right at the middle of the film, and the only part of divine intervention that takes place, the symbolism of it happening by water and in the between space of Orlaks castle(death) and the main land. It’s also interesting it came out on Christmas Day.
It was faster to get a video out this way. As I mentioned near the end, I think I'm going to more of these less scripted, less produced videos in between the fancier ones, just so there's a steadier stream of content for the channel. Depending on how long the script is, the fancier videos can take several hours to edit.
Improving that woman's material conditions would enable her to also improve her mental and spiritual conditions. Acting like the two are not linked is incredibly foolish and the fact that you seem to believe that people are responsible for the suffering that capitalism causes shows that you sont actually understand the principles of your own religion as much as you claim you do.
Nosferatu 2024 is not a Christian movie folks, it has its highs and lows, watch it if you want but it's not Christian. The original however ties the old world blood sacrifices and the sacrifice of Christ. This is what makes it interesting is you can't conclusively separate the 2, considering who made it. Robert Eggers is not an occultist but a post-modernist. In the head of there people there are no solutions, only a sense if nagging. Which kind of fits the glove of a horror movie, the sense of flutily and no answers is a common element in horror.
When will people realize that the entirety of California is not LA and the Bay area. Stay where you are and improve it. Moving on a whim in an attempt to evade politics is modernism to the core. It has created an entire generation of rootless people. As a 9th gen. Appalachian it is sad that so many people are moving here and changing our culture because they want to live in a red state with low taxes... Only to make it a blue state with high taxes.
The movie's trash wearing the church as an aesthetic. Christ isn't depicted or mentioned by any of the religious characters. The van helsing guy is now occultist instead of Christian. Other weird subversions throughout.
It's the same ending as the original Nosferatu. It's not even too clear if Ellen accepted the deal out of sacrifice for his husband, or also out of lust.
@@ElonMuskrat-my8jy Well sorry for confirming you that the ending of the source material is the same as the ending of the remake, lol. Although some of the plot is a bit different and that might change your interpretation of the original's ending.
I'm Catholic but the Orthodox scene, that respect shown to our Apostolic brothers and sisters, was greatly appreciated.
We're not your brothers. Your Church is a sworn archenemy.
Some Orthodox rites are our brothers, don't know about the rite showed in the movie though... regardless, it was an branch of Christianity shown in a good light
@@einarrjamesson9643 You're not our brother
@TomHawks-k8l I'm so very sorry that you feel that way. I sincerely hope the East is able go rejoin the West one day and the West is open enough to listen to the grievance of the East. I pray. For nothing less than the reunification of all of Christendom.
Do not be discouraged. I am not Catholic, or Orthodox, and it seems to me you exhibit a very Christ like spirit. God bless you!
I loved this film so much. As an Orthodox Christian and a filmmaker, I found it refreshing to see our faith presented in a positive light and one that respects not only our tradition, but the various nuanced beliefs. Vrykolokos, exorcism, the monastics, and the belief in Eastern mysticism by Dafoe's character just helped build a great theological foundation behind this demonic entity. I blew my homies mind after leaving the theatre when I was mindlessly explaining our faith.
Dafoes character was an occultist luciferian.
This film doesn't represent Orthodoxy in a good light the same way a pornographic film wouldnt represent it just because a priest would have a cameo in between two scenes.
People falling for the pretty cinematography are doing mental gymnastics into somehow believing this collection of obscene scenes is a good Orthodox film.
As a Romanian who could understand the language in the film - I don't find them presented in a positive light, just neutral in regards to presentation and obviously "right" in relation to Vampire lore.
I heard the same superstitions and old lady "pleading" that Romanian ladies say today about the air current and the "evil eye".
I found all the Romanian characters great btw, good acting, got flashbacks and second hand embarrassments!
As a follower of occult & religious topics online, I also found the Solomonari sect in Germany to be kinda ridiculous and in strong contrast to the presentation of the orthodox monastery which was veridic. I'm gonna want to look up that supposed sect to see how much of a film invention it is, but why is a heptagram used at all?
@ thanks for the knowledge!
Im not orthodox but I did like how respectful it was to Orthodoxy. The nuns were great.
I’m Catholic and I had the same reaction to the movie you did. It’s funny how so many vampire films show that Christian sacrament and sacramentals are effective against the undead. Yet none of these films ask if that means the faith is true. I was fascinated by the movie but bothered that the end solution we were supposed to accept is that Ellen had to die to appease the account. But I loved how you pointed out that Thomas fully recovered under the care of the sisters and there was actually an alternative presented in the film. I didn’t think of that before. Thanks for pointing that out.
I mean, the original frightnight dug a bit into the theme of faith. I don’t remember it being a major theme, but it was enough to give a satisfying ending to the movie
This is a fascinating perspective on Nosferatu, and I appreciate your thoughtful exploration of its spiritual elements. While it’s true that the film diverges from Bram Stoker’s Dracula-with Count Orlok not being defeated by a religious figure like Van Helsing but instead by Von Franz, an ‘occultist’-there’s another layer of meaning that can be understood through the psychological lens of Carl Jung.
Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and a Christian man, raised in the Protestant tradition, who explored the connection between the spiritual and the psychological. One of his central ideas was the process of individuation, the journey of integrating all parts of the psyche-the light and the dark, the known and the repressed-to become whole. This process parallels the Christian path of repentance, facing sin, and seeking renewal in Christ.
In Nosferatu, Count Orlok symbolizes the shadow-the repressed, destructive side of the human soul, encompassing sinful tendencies, fears, and desires. Ellen, who sacrifices herself to defeat Orlok, represents the ego and anima (the feminine soul), and her journey involves confronting these dark forces. By willingly offering herself to Orlok, she brings his shadowy power into the light, destroying him. This act symbolizes shadow integration, the process of bringing what is hidden into awareness to achieve transformation and wholeness-individuation.
Von Franz, however, is much more than a mere occultist. He represents Carl Jung himself, and his name is no coincidence. The name ‘Von Franz’ is likely a deliberate merging of Carl Jung with Marie-Louise von Franz, one of his closest collaborators. Marie-Louise was a Jungian analyst who deeply explored the feminine side of the psyche, the anima, and its role in psychological transformation. By naming the character Von Franz, the film hints at Jung’s integrated anima-a union of his rational, masculine side with the intuitive, feminine wisdom symbolized by Marie-Louise.
This integration is key to the narrative because Nosferatu heavily emphasizes the feminine side of the psyche. Von Franz is the only character who truly understands and cares for Ellen. While others fear or dismiss her, he helps her confront the dark forces within and around her. This dynamic mirrors how Jesus comprehended Mary Magdalene, seeing beyond societal judgment and recognizing her spiritual depth and humanity.
The historical setting of the film reinforces these themes. It takes place in a time when rationalism and materialism were overtaking faith, leaving space for spiritual darkness to hide in plain sight. This context resonates with Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous declaration, ‘God is dead’, which warned of the moral and spiritual crises emerging as society shifted away from its reliance on God. The absence of a religious figure like Van Helsing to combat evil in Nosferatu reflects this cultural shift. Instead, Von Franz uses psychological and esoteric understanding to confront Orlok. This change highlights the modern struggle to reconcile faith with a world increasingly denying the existence of deeper, unseen forces.
Ultimately, Nosferatu can be appreciated on many levels, including the rich Orthodox Christian lens you’ve brought here. While Jung’s ideas come from a psychological tradition, they also explore the necessity of transformation, the integration of darkness and light, and the spiritual battle within-a battle that deeply resonates with the Christian understanding of sin, grace, and renewal. Nietzsche’s warning about a world unmoored from God also echoes through the film’s narrative, showing the dangers of a society that allows darkness to fester when faith is replaced by pure rationalism.
Fantastic analysis!
Best summary of the ideas represented in the film 💯
The nuns and the priest were the only characters that knew what they were doing
Everyone else was lost in unbelief or in the dubious crafts of solomonic magic
It made me sad at the ending, when the solution was right there.
@FunkBastid"the solution" is what the writer of the text makes it out to be.
The superstitions of the villagers also seemingly worked. It seemed that between them and the church, the land had come up with ways to contain, but not get rid of, Orlok. It's a nice parallel to how a mix of culture, medicine, and general care from the powers that be can inure populations to sickness.
Is Solomonic an euphemism for Jewish?
@@BrorealeK they had to sacrifice an innocent virgin, this is not something working, it's hell
Man, there would be so much potential in a version where orthodoxy solves the problem.
I know it frustrated me.
That is this version. Hutter doesn't listen to the nuns! They were right!
@@thegreyetch Ed McMahon would say, "you are correct, sir!"
Self sacrifice is a Christian virtue.. so.. I guess in a way.
But as someone stated, the nuns and the priest were able to free Thomas of whatever oppression he was suffering from Orlack's presence and they were correct that he shouldn't have left.
Imagine if they could keep lily rose Depp in a church like the nun suggested
I never took it as the occult “winning” because she still died which caused Hutter suffering. Seivers also made it clear earlier that von Franz was mad and had kooky ideas. As soon as Hutter left the monastery after they told him not to, he left the light and entered the darkness, and even with the sun rising, Ellen is dead and that darkness remained.
Yes she defeated Orlok, but that was the price for conjuring his spirit all those years ago. That’s what makes it scary, from the moment the film opened, she had entered that darkness, and there was no way out.
As a Christian, I can see how that idea would upset some, but at the end of the day it is a *horror* movie. Eggers has said himself his deepest fear is going crazy and steeping too far into the occult.
Just my two cents.
It is not about "the occult" or "religion" winning, but about science and rationality failing against an evil that represents the shadow self of the uncounscious mind, "apettite".
@ That too of course!
I thought it was strange Hutter saw Christianity was effective against Orlock and his power but doesn't use it later when he goes home.
This is an excellent, thoughtful, soulful Orthodox meditation out of what is essentially a pop culture entity.
Thank you! Glad you liked it. I'm definitely wanting to try to do more stuff like this going forward.
It is interesting that the scene of presenting Ellen as a priestess of "Isis" which is one of the many parallelisms that is often equated to Christ, and that she is our "salvation" in the next breath, and presenting Orlok as "death himself" that's very much a Christological parallel, since Christ came to defeat not sin, but Death itself. Beautiful cameo of Orthodox Nuns though.
I'll paste here a comment I had left on another video about how the characters in Nosferatu fail in their attempts to cope with the situation:
One of the reasons this film has a bad ending (though it could've been even worse) is that Ellen's sacrifice is the last resort to ward off evil but there should've been much better alternatives if the other characters had listened.
For example the clinician and Thomas's rich friend that cling to their materialistic worldview for far too long, the latter one especially.
Thomas by leaving the church before being fully healed, he arrives to Ellen in absolute terrible shape and is unable to save her.
Thomas and Ellen themselves, one focuses on the material wealth and has business deals with shady (demonic) characters, the other succumbs to her own curiosity and probably lust.
Von Franz (i.e. Jung) is the only one who knows what they're actually dealing with but he is also a little bit too enthusiastic about Ellen's sacrifice..
Anna, the most Christian character, holds to her faith but is ultimately unable to save herself and her children because it's a sort of naive faith which doesn't account for the darkness that is present in all of us. Therefore unable to deal with it spreading all around her family and city.
Very good analysis
"One of the reasons this film has a bad ending (though it could've been even worse) is that Ellen's sacrifice is the last resort to ward off evil but there should've been much better alternatives if the other characters had listened."
I got the impression that Ellen's sacrifice was presented as first solution, not last resort. As soon as von Franz found the answer in the book, this was his plan all along, doing everything possible to delay the men from being with Ellen at night.
You see some form of Orthodoxy in Coppola's Dracula film as well.
Yeah, in the book, Harker is taken in by a Catholic hospital directed by a Sister Agatha who then contacts a local English Mission Church to wed Jonathan & Mina.
Indeed in the film Jonathan and Mina quickly get married while still in Romania, with a crowning ceremony and all
I told my wife that i suspected Eggers was Catholic when we saw the Northman because there was so much Christian symbolism intertwined in yhat movie, but now i see that he most likely is Orthodox. Either way I love Eggers and his films. They tell you he's Christian without telling you he's Christian
We should make Orthodox horror films. We have so much to offer this horrific world.
So much more Christian crap.
Nah, that’s demonic.
You made my day, I am still laughing! This is not a bad idea at all.
@@williamoarlock8634 you have fetal alcohol syndrome
@@Damascene749It's only demonic if evil is presented as good.
Very insightful, I had alot of these same thoughts watching the movie.
Occultism was sadly part of my journey before I found Orthodoxy. It 100% is/will blow up here over the next couple of decades as things get more serious.
I've been a catechumen for a couple of months now, and seeing the schemanun made me so excited. Even more excited that Orthodoxy is growing so much that I can actually find Orthodox content on the internet about modern things. Thank God for this!
I would be interested to see your thoughts on 'The Witch' (2015) given the setting of the horror within the puritan sensibilities of the settlers in New England.
I know that's another Eggers film. I haven't seen it before but I'd be interested in checking it out.
VVitch comes off like a brutal condemnation of protestant "denominating".
@@The.Tabellion I've been thinking about it a lot in the few days since watching it.
@@The.Tabellion definitely worth watching. Egger's films are always aesthetically interesting, that's for sure.
That movie is explicitly satanist. It portrays faith as powerless against evil. An interesting aspect is how it leads to the conclusion that the Calvinist god and the devil are not really distinguishable from each other. The director does know the tenets of Calvinist theology.
Quite an insightful analysis. Great to know that Orthodoxy has been shown in a true and powerful light.
You definitely earned my sub. I look forward to learn more about you guys through your videos. Keep up the great work
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. Welcome aboard!
I have seen the original Nosferatu, and that suffices for the present time. It was your tangential material that attracted me to your video, as I am a fellow Orthodox Christian. Your description of the homeless in California was heart stirring; I live in Houston so I can relate to the problem. I look forward to future videos and your comments on the Orthodox phronema.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it, brother.
I'm not Orthodox but I was also pleasantly surprised at seeing its representation in the film. The occult origins of the script used by Orlok is what mainly got me interested in learning about the first film, and Eggers did my favorite film of all time, The Northman, so twas a match made in Vahalla for me.
10:40 VERY true.
I’m LDS, but absolutely love Orthodox Christians. It was great to get not only a good representation of Christianity, but of the Orthodox Church, given its shown way less than Catholicism and Protestantism. Which seems crazy because you guys hands down have the best imagery.
Love your thoughts about the movie. I loved all the Nosferatu movies and even dress my first born as him for his first Halloween. He came out looking like a goblin vampire so it just fit so well.
One thought I had about the end ritual as you were taking was Mark 9:38-40. Maybe the “occult” version is just an apostatized version that is now shrouded in mystery because it is no longer in its original context.
Great observation about the film’s critique of secular materialism
While I do not share your faith anymore, having grown up as an orthodox I still have a strong affection towards orthodox art like icons, architecture and especially orthodox choir music. And because of that I was pleasently surprised by the strong presence of orthodox imagery in the film's scenes, not only in the monastery but also earlier at the inn and on Hutter's journey to the castle. I wish horror movies would use it more often instead of always relying on the same old catholic imagery we always see in every religious horror movie.
Catholic here. Big fan of this thoughtful analysis.
I think we have common ground on pretty much every element to complain about in this movie.
If Robert Barron hadn’t been promoted into a busy bishop’s position, I would’ve loved to hear his thoughts about the film.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
Honestly that was a big reason and motivation for wanting to start this channel. The bishops (both Catholic and Orthodox) have a million and a half things on their plates, so I think this sort of cultural engagement and analysis is where the laymen can shine most brightly.
I mean even when I was Catholic I knew how establishment-connected and subversive that guy is...
Thank you SO MUCH for this video. I just watched the movie and loved 90% of it. The ending I was pretty troubled with. I don’t love succumbing to evil to defeat it. The thought crossed my mind that it’s similar in a sense to the ending of the Exorcist but in that movie the priest is playing the role of Christ “becoming sin so we might become the righteousness of God” and that doesn’t seem to be what’s happening in Nosferatu.
You contrasting the Orthodox healing vs pagan sacrifice made a lot of sense and helped me understand the movie better.
Very astute regarding the theme of peoples need for the spiritual. This was probably the most intelligent "review" video I've seen on this film.
I really enjoyed the film as well.
A theme that really stuck out to me is the extent to which we can be damaged or damage ourselves through the relationships and experiences we have, as well as the choices we make. There is no humanity in Orlok, he is only the shell, maybe some of the ego is there. But for whatever reason, he made a pact with something very evil. And there is nothing really left besides the unnatural torture of his undead state. How far we can veer through attachment, anger, list, control. It's very alarming.
I liked that the film doesn't try to make the dark occult seem attractive. It's definitely a warning to those of an impure heart. I really see Ellen as more of a victim. Everyone Orlok has contact with he deceives and manipulates, his end is really destruction. He strong arms everyone or tricks them. He gets away with it because HE knows the rules, and takes advantage of this "secret knowledge" to impose HIS will upon another.
Maybe the last bit of humanity in him is what brings him to Ellen, he knows how to end the plague, or be "sated" as the insufferable spirit would say. I feel that is the only thing left, and it's definitely mired in list, anger, etc. He looks like a blind beast greedily sniffing her out.... Who could see that innocent new love, and have no emotion or compassion for it, but be filled with lust. But a lot of people ARE like that. The dangers of the material
... His whole paradigm was control in life (speak not of it again!) Hard to say if there is anything left. What a danger it is to be so attached and need to control all around you. It could drive you to centuries of unbearable suffering and the continuation of it without end, or hell...
Thank you! I really appreciate that.
Literally would have been a 20 min movie if they got a hold of the local bishop. Or a contracts lawyer.
Interesting that you cited John Dee, because the conjuration circle used by Renfield in this movie is the Sigillum Dei, wich originally comes from the medieval grimoire Liber Juratus and was later incorporated into Dee's system of Enochian Magic.
Oh very interesting. I wasn't aware of that.
As a cradle Catholic, I always recognised the Judeo-Christian themes in Bram Stoker’s original Dracula - light overcoming darkness, self-sacrificing love (agape), etc. However, I was not familiar with the 1922 Murnau adaptation. I read that both Murnau and Max Schrank (the actor playing Nosferatu in the 1922 film) were avid occultists. The occult themes were inserted into the Bram Stoker narrative so that Murnau and Schrank could play out their deepest darkest desires. This all sat well with German expressionism and Jungian psychology, popular at the time, and a kind of therapy for a nation recently defeated in war. E.g., all the advanced German science and technology could not save the nation from defeat. A return to the ancient occult could somehow restore Germany.
The spiritual themes within the vampiric legends are undeniable! Well done!
I did not expect a video about the movie Nosferatu to turn into a diatribe about how people choose to be homeless or have a spiritual problem. I've heard people use this argument to shut down homeless shelters and charge homeless people with a crime for sleeping outside. Besides making me look at you sideways, what does this have to do with a film about vampires?
True, seems very un-Christian
Mario Bava's Mask of the Demon aka Black Sunday depicts the vampire/witch as repulsed by a seemingly Orthodox Ikon.
I was impressed too. We rarely see this.
Excellent video! I am Catholic as well but I loved seeing the representation of Orthodoxy and your analysis on the characters ultimately resorting to imperfect occultism instead of their faith when science fails, resulting in pyrrhic victory. In that sense while the film wasn't made to be a Christian film, we can certainly view it as one subjectively.
I loved that scene in the Movie ! Also in the village you can see the gypsies doing the sign of the cross. I said to myself "I wonder if they are going to show any Orthodoxy" and I was pleasantly surprised 😅
It's interesting that you say 2025vCount Orlock looks Ukrainiam. My first though when I saw the film was that he looks like a messed up version of Ukrainian folk singer Kozak Siromaha. I loved the folk elements of this movie so much - the Roma costumes were gorgeous!
I enjoyed your evaluation of the movie but the rest was very thought provoking . I appreciate your insights.
Vampires are a serious topic because of what they symbolize and the long history of suffering they’ve been part of. If anyone takes them seriously in their original context the way this movie does, I think that depth comes through whether or not the filmmakers are aware of it.
I think you missed the point. The film is very Jungian in the idea of The Shadow. Thomas is not healed by the Orthodox Nuns. No one is healed until Ellen sacrifices herself by becoming one with Orlok, ie her shadow. Everything else is implied to be impotent in the face of the destruction that Orlok wrought.
Furthermore Van Helsing and Van Franz are both occultists and not known to be particularly religious, only in the idea that the religious iconography works against Dracula. This is not present in Nosferatu. It is the resistance to the integration of her shadow that causes all of the issues. The reliance on Occultism, Christianity, and modern science that makes it worse.
Additionally I find your analysis of the unhoused completely reductive.
I perked right up when i saw the Nun and chuckled to myself at the end of the movie that they were the only ones that actually helped anyone in the whole movie. Not really too thrilled with them wearing Schema robes but hey.
If you don't know Orthodoxy is actually being represented in more and more films that are coming out lately there is this new film on Netflix while I don't think it's new it came out like 2 years ago called the good dude or man or something it's an action film with Ryan Gosling and that chick that was with him in Blade runner. And the main bad guy is Superman Chris Evans Gourmet in the guy who played Captain America I forgot I don't want movies that much but the cool thing about this movie is there's an orthodox funeral within the first 30 minutes and then one of the main characters actually does the prayer rope. Although it's not the traditional ones the wooden beads but still it's pretty cool
Now, this gets a like. May God bless you. ☦️
Thank you! God bless!
Great video. Thank you. I really enjoyed the more casual format, fyi.
Thank you! Glad you liked it. I'm definitely going to aim to do more of them as well.
I would love to see The Mothman make videos like this.
I’m orthodox and can’t wait to see this film!
Hope it is presented accurately.
Reader John
You can't kill whatsvalready dead,glad we get to experience nostferatu side note,no one can duplicate Dracula it's a masterpiece
Like, Von Franz is a christian occultist but his powers are rather limited. Marx pointed out that the vampire was a symbol for capital and it's quite clear that in this perspective Marx/Von Franz has quite clear knowledge of the current situation but is deeply incapable of dealing with the deep spiritual dimension of the situation - Marx realized that capital was this material/demonic force possesing people to act in a certain way and he hoped the material force of the working class would overcome this and show itself to be the force of history which we know through Hegel's Böhmeanism is God knowing himself, in Hegel's case reaching an apex with jesus on the cross and history being from a post millinial perspective being the kingdom being build on earth. What Schelling and Kierkegaard constantly returned to was the individual christian soul in all of this and the freedom it has. Kierkegaard has many frustrations with danish Lutheranism and it's inadequacy with adressing the spiritual need which arose in his time.
Btw both Kierkegaard and Marx is so contemporary that both Kierkegaard, Schelling and Engels were in the same room at one point.
Pertinent and insightful analysis. Looking forward to your Dark Souls video, it a being a masterful work of art. Best wishes!
I think the idea of having a good aspect of the Creation sacrifice itself to the dark and corrupted spiritual essence of the opposing Universal principle, is in fact of zoroastrian origin. It tells the story of how evil only has spiritual significance and can't trully contaminate, only corrupt matter, and such it needs to adhere to a form of established matterial aspect of the Creation to have it's influence take root. This is also the begining of the end for this Evil, because such things are foretold and after much strife and suffering all of the Evil aspect will be consumed into the Light.
It’s so interesting because the mystic apostolic prayer actually worked in contrast to the post reformation enlightenment era rational efforts which were absolutely useless
Can you review the old 1940s wolf man and give your thoughts?
I'll check it out!
Honestly youre my favorite pop orthodox channel. You should have Christian Mario and Orthodox Luigi on to dunk on catholics epic style
Aw thanks man. That means a lot!
In the 1992 movie Dracula, the young couple got married in the orthodox ritual to protect themselves against Dracula. Unfortunately, this didn't happen in "Nosferatu."
I remember a classic horror film called Blacksabath where the first known vampire they encounter is a dead local turk warlord
Now I’m a little motivated to see this
This was really very enlightening. And well spoken good points thank you for this
I don’t want to see the film
We need to come back to God. Not Shivas, Allahs, Kalvins, Luthers, Popes, Patriarchs and other bullshit religions.
To live by God commandments and to die by them, and we all good.
Satan cannot cast out Satan.
Very true. One of the fathers talks about how sometimes one demons leaves just for another to take its place and the person is fooled by it.
@The.Tabellion Yup.
@@The.Tabellion You may be interesting in a documentary video on RUclips titled "U.K. Paranormal Files, the hunt for the Highgate Vampire."
@@The.Tabellion I also purchased Seán Manchester's book some years back, giving his firsthand account. And although the price on Amazon has exponentially gone up (possibly because, as it appears to me, it might no longer be in print but maybe has ceased production) it is nonetheless a great read and may still be found elsewhere. It is a very interesting story and I have personally corresponded with Manchester himself via social media and he seems like a person of an earnest and straightforward character so much that I cannot help but entertain the possibility that he may have truly experienced and fought against some kind of real spiritual evil. His account is also backed up by a number of eyewitnesses who corroborate his account with purported sightings and visitations as well as those directly involved in the investigation.
Obviously you haven't watched the masterpiece Dracula dir.by F.F.Coppola ,because in that film Coppola depicts a Christian Orthodox Romanian wedding
WTF YOU'RE NOT BLACK
Ok just saying that before anyone else does
Why did you think he was?
This channel is not diverse enough, we have to cancel it now! We need to put a chick in it and make everything fake, lame and gay.
Count orloc missed leg day for centuries 😂 in the end 😂😂
Bro has mimikyu
If I'm Hutter, I'm gonna be like, "All y'all are comin' with me!" Instead, he decides to deal with that dude who sleeps in a sarcophagus with whatever occult and science he's got available back home.
Fun detail but every time a character is shown giving up a cross or taking one off they shortly become a target thereafter
Why do I feel that the German city was actually supposed to be Düsseldorf? To my knowledge Düsseldorf was connected to the vampire mythos somehow. Perhaps in Stokers Dracula. I’m not sure…
18:00 umm any discussion of the disgusting embezzlement of aid to the homeless/unhoused. I agree throwing money at the problem won’t solve the issue, but I think you mislabel the problem as those in need rather than the for-profit laundering of your taxes into a managerial class who repeatedly fail upward.
Oh I completely agree. I casually mention the money laundering that goes on with homeless relief at 17:30 but I definitely agree that these for-profit organizations have a financial incentive to keep the problem going.
Orlock would be considered a Strigoi as well by the way he looks.
Research indicates that the best solution for homelessness and all its associated problems is actually just to provide free permanent or semi-permanent lodging and people to help guide the previously unhoused individuals in rebuilding their lives.
Did I miss the whole “new atheism” thing?
It's very possible. It wasn't very long lived.
still going strong, but not growing too much. The percentage of first generation atheists is now at a size where the reverse seems to happen as well: kids growing up without Religion and not familiar with the questions and criticisms their parents struggle with, seem interested in the spiritual
As a Catholic and a worker at a faith-based high capacity low-barrier shelter (meaning people who come to us from the streets, not couch-surfing twenty-somethings) with a husband who works as a case manager for our local unhoused population I cannot even begin to detail all the ways in which you are wrong about homeless people. Not even in the “I do this work and I’m offended” way, I mean the ways in which you are literally factually wrong about the current condition of homelessness, who is homeless, why, for how long, and how they can be helped.
This wasn’t a video about Nosferatu, this was an anti-homeless screed stuffed inside a film review lmfao. I do not for even a second believe you’ve ever spoken to a homeless person or been around one who trusted you as a fellow human being long enough for you to overhear or be told “god told me I can use meth.”
Vampires suck and they are not cute! It’s good to get that straight when we talk about them.
One more thing: why does every film these days have someone surnamed Skarsgård in it?
Also: Dacian is pronounced either ‘day-see-an’ or ‘dach-ian’ but not ‘dossiyan’.
One last thing: Olga Kurylenko’s character in The Death Of Stalin, the heroic pianiste tells the tyrant she has no fear of him or of death because she knows as an Orthodox woman that her soul will dwell in eternity. Those are the last words the monster reads in this life, which cause him to die of a stroke. That’s not trivial.
Bill Skarsgard is a good actor, that’s why he’s in a lot of films. He also has a brother Alexander. They’ve both been around for a long time
I found it simplistic and somehow degrading the Orthodox branch, but I loved the esthetics.
There once also was known a hornelk Orlok ☝
Technically, Germany is Central European, not Western European.
You should see the Upyr, or the vampire in slavism.
Please define the word "schemanon"
Schema-nun. It's a nun who has attained a high level of spiritual excellence and the highest "rank" of monastics in the Orthodox Church.
She's distinguished by the pattern on her monastic habit. If you Google schema nun, you can see what one looks like. She has the white pattern (known as the Great Schema) on her clothing.
The Von Frans guy was an idiot and didn't have a clue what he was doing and his weakness and incompetence cost a woman her life. If Hutter had brought the gypsy guy with the hat with him (the one who staked a vampire at the beginning) or an Orthodox priest from the monastery, things would have played out very differently. That guy in the hat (who was clearly Orthodox) was depicted as being so strong of faith and fearless he would have made a better Van Hellsing type of character than the occultist guy. There was a lot of potential and missed opportunity here for Christ and Christianity to be depicted as triumphant over the Satanic evil. Instead they just made the solution to cancel out Satanism basically just ultimately another form of Satanism, which gives a false hope. You cannot reasonably have hope in anything that is outside of Christ.
…It’s a horror movie….about vampires. It wasn’t meant to be a christian statement.
@@wolfh9831 Even moreso, it was a remake of Nosferatu which was a secularized version of Stoker's very Christian novel. The Universal, Hammer, and almost every remotely faithful adaptation of Stoker's story does feature Christian faith.
@@wolfh9831 Nonetheless, it is a reflection on our society and has a message, and that message is damaging to souls. Our culture is being dragged further and further away from Christ and this is not a good thing.
I feel you, but at the same time, its realistic.
There was no definitive victory over evil, mostly because their method was to rely on other spiritual and esoteric resources, ignoring one simply and powerful truth.
Only Christ can lead us to win over evil.
I think that may be the point. They made a lot of bad decisions.
I'm not gonna lie you don't look the way I imagined 😅
Now I'm curious what you expected, haha
Yes, it is the same story.
I thought this version was gorgeous and interesting, but godless. The absence of crosses and God is noticeable, and the Christianity of the family Ellen lives with does nothing to ward off Orlok. The children are slaughtered after reciting the Lord's Prayer before bed. I get the Ellen/Christ parallels, but the occultism was much louder.
The new Nosferatu was so close to a fantastic movie, sadly Lily-Rose Depp totally ruined it
"Der Untote" 🖤the undead
Stirfry Gravantus in a wok
😱😰
The movie should have had more scenes in Romania going more into the folk lore and the mysticism the movie got boring once it moved to Western Europe but that explains a lot hyper rational society’s are the most boring 😂
Dacian isnt Romanian. Romanian is a Latin language, Dacian is something else entirely.
The Romans conquered Dacia (present day Romania), that's why today Romanians call themselves Romanians (after the Romans) and not Dacians.
@@RhiannonSenpai they dont speak the same language as Dacian
@ Romanians speak a Romance/Latin language because of the Roman influence.
I agree with the occultic interpretation . I don’t see the ending as positive. It seems like Dafoe’s character is a luciferian false light, the last frame shows the sun shine on him ominously like a light-bearer. Even the part when he says ‘I wrestled the devil like Jacob wrestled the angel’, reminds me of The Lighthouse like an intertextual narrative, as well as a rebellious being climbing the ladder bringing down fire. There’s also mention of ‘solomonari’ type rituals , I believe the magic trick here is that The Professor is Orlak when he was younger and he brings himself to life as a human again, as a vampire to beast transformation.
Thomas expresses that he got tricked and goes on one knee like a knight/prince next to his sleeping princess as if it’s a fairytale and he’s set to go on a journey. Eggers next film is set to be a medieval epic called ‘The Knight.’ So this could have an ‘empire strikes back’ type ending in his filmography
Also, the Orthodox element is great. It’s right at the middle of the film, and the only part of divine intervention that takes place, the symbolism of it happening by water and in the between space of Orlaks castle(death) and the main land. It’s also interesting it came out on Christmas Day.
Also why is this video unedited and just you talking in front of a camera? No pictures or sound or nothing
It was faster to get a video out this way. As I mentioned near the end, I think I'm going to more of these less scripted, less produced videos in between the fancier ones, just so there's a steadier stream of content for the channel.
Depending on how long the script is, the fancier videos can take several hours to edit.
@@The.Tabellion I really enjoy this informal format.
Improving that woman's material conditions would enable her to also improve her mental and spiritual conditions. Acting like the two are not linked is incredibly foolish and the fact that you seem to believe that people are responsible for the suffering that capitalism causes shows that you sont actually understand the principles of your own religion as much as you claim you do.
Nosferatu 2024 is not a Christian movie folks, it has its highs and lows, watch it if you want but it's not Christian.
The original however ties the old world blood sacrifices and the sacrifice of Christ. This is what makes it interesting is you can't conclusively separate the 2, considering who made it.
Robert Eggers is not an occultist but a post-modernist. In the head of there people there are no solutions, only a sense if nagging. Which kind of fits the glove of a horror movie, the sense of flutily and no answers is a common element in horror.
Dude you need to get out of California
Agreed, his voice is that of a Californian
And his head bobs and twists and all that
No argument from me.
When will people realize that the entirety of California is not LA and the Bay area.
Stay where you are and improve it. Moving on a whim in an attempt to evade politics is modernism to the core. It has created an entire generation of rootless people.
As a 9th gen. Appalachian it is sad that so many people are moving here and changing our culture because they want to live in a red state with low taxes... Only to make it a blue state with high taxes.
@@CosmicMystery7 Literally everywhere in the USA sucks
The movie's trash wearing the church as an aesthetic. Christ isn't depicted or mentioned by any of the religious characters. The van helsing guy is now occultist instead of Christian. Other weird subversions throughout.
They way they 'beat' the vampire is by playing completely to Nosferatu's mythos and infidelity. It's cucked from the start.
From a legit review straight to religious privileged babble. Wow.
Unfortunately it had a feminist ending.
It's the same ending as the original Nosferatu. It's not even too clear if Ellen accepted the deal out of sacrifice for his husband, or also out of lust.
@Spectrometer Thanks for ruining the ending of the original for me. I was planning to watch it.
@@ElonMuskrat-my8jy Well sorry for confirming you that the ending of the source material is the same as the ending of the remake, lol. Although some of the plot is a bit different and that might change your interpretation of the original's ending.
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