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25 Of The Most Random And Dumb Things People Have Said With Zero Doubt About Being Right

A bunch of examples of people who’ve ended up speaking nonsense with full faith in what they’re saying.

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"It’s gory and romantic and brutal and I think that’s what keeps people coming back again and again." Why metal is obsessed with vampires

A history of metal's fascination with the fanged undead, from Slayer to Cradle Of Filth, Type O Negative and Creeper

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Why bad posh English accents still rule Hollywood, from Nosferatu to Gladiator II

In two of the biggest films released this summer, Gladiator II and Nosferatu, most actors seem to be speaking like they’re in a Shakespeare play – even though their characters are based in Ancient Rome and 1830s Germany. Where does this false British accent come from?

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Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu is a sumptuous and spine-tingling gothic horror

You know the story of Dracula. A Transylvanian count wants to buy land in the west, a young real estate agent visits him to finalise the sale and has a bad time. The count travels to the west to wreak havoc (and to seduce its good women) but is foiled…

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Chris Columbus says Harry Potter let-down shaped his approach to Nosferatu

Director said the disappointing moment had provided him with a philosophy for his production company

The Independent UK

Robert Eggers' 'Nosferatu' is full of sophistication, wit and terror

The director of 'The Witch' puts his distinctive stamp on one of the greatest vampire movies ever made.

Tom’s Guide

A bleak, exquisite "Nosferatu" for today

Robert Eggers' long-awaited passion project arrives with splendid atmosphere and a haunting performance at its core

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Horror, satire, tawdry wealth and postcolonial critique: 5 classics to catch up on this summer

I’ve dedicated my professional life to reading and teaching the English classics. The crucial thing about classics is that they start as cutting-edge literary experiments.

The Conversation

‘Nosferatu’ Review: Robert Eggers Takes The Gothic Horror Classic Straight To Hell

Robert Eggers’ 'Nosferatu' remake is a gruesome and depraved update on the classic of horror cinema.

Inverse

Nosferatu was almost Robert Eggers' second movie after The Witch, but he's glad he waited almost a decade to make the vampire horror: "It just wouldn't have been as good"

Exclusive: Director Robert Eggers explains how Nosferatu would be so much different if he filmed it 10 years ago after his breakout hit The Witch

Total Film

Nosferatu review – Robert Eggers’s respectful homage to a vampire horror classic

The second remake of FW Murnau’s unofficial Dracula adaptation is handsomely shot and stylised, with a forbiddingly gruesome monster, but walks the line between self-conscious and scary

The Guardian - UK

Nosferatu is one of the most profoundly frightening horror films in years

5/5 A magnificent Lily-Rose Depp is the convulsing, hysteric target of Bill Skarsgård’s vampire, in this star-studded adaptation co-starring Nicholas Hoult, Emma Corrin and Willem Dafoe

The Independent UK

Best vampire books of all time, from Dracula to Salem's Lot

Novels to get the blood pumping

Evening Standard

Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Francis Ford Coppola’s very horny vampire epic

Thirty years before Megalopolis, there was Coppola’s other deranged, maximalist fable about love lost, starring Gary Oldman as the terrifying Count

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Man Hanging Out in Library on Break from Work Stumbles Upon Long-Lost Story by 'Dracula' Writer: 'I Was Just Astounded'

An amateur historian found a long-lost short story by 'Dracula' author in the national library of Ireland.

The Guardian - UK

Reader stumbles on Dracula’s ancestors in a Dublin library

The unknown Bram Stoker story Gibbet Hill, published soon before the author began working on Dracula, has eerie echoes of his vampire classic

Inverse

45 Years Ago, an Infamous Director Made the Perfect Vampire Thriller

How do you improve on an already beloved and influential classic? By being Werner Herzog and swinging for the fences.

Evening Standard

Best Gothic novels for classic, dramatic and unsettling stories

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The Conversation

Why Taylor Swift’s gothic work is as important as the novels of Mary Shelley or Bram Stoker

Taylor Swift has cultivated a global brand that might seem incompatible with the darkness, abjection and monstrosity of gothic fiction. But, beneath the friendship bracelets and sequins, her global Eras Tour makes extensive use of gothic elements to engage her audience and articulate her feminist politics.

TechRadar

Prime Video movie of the day: Bram Stoker's Dracula is campy, vampy and pretty damn sexy

Francis Ford Coppola ups the eroticism in this gloriously over the top vampire epic.

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Sydney Theatre Company’s Dracula: a virtuosic performance, sexy staging, and a queer rewriting

The figure of Dracula has always lived somewhere between the written word, screen projections and our fantasy lives. His story is tailor-made for one of Kip Williams’ hybrid adaptations.

Total Film

20 years on, Hugh Jackman's panned vampire horror movie is getting resurrected as a TV series

It'll offer up a modern-day take on the fictional monster hunter

The Independent UK

The city break with £2 pints and one of the world’s best spas

Ornate architecture, storybook castles and a city brimming with historical tales

The Guardian - UK

Dracula: The Bloody Truth review – defanged comedy stretches the joke too far

Bram Stoker’s novel gets redone in the style of The Play That Goes Wrong, in an energetically performed but ultimately feeble farce

The Guardian - UK

Hamilton Deane’s stake in Dracula’s success

Letter: Paul Murray, a Bram Stoker biographer, reflects on the transformative work of the Irish actor, manager and playwright

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