also, thread tax? the last movie I watched in theatres was Nosferatu. I find it hard to reflect on movies I've seen in theatre, because I feel like so much of your feelings on a movie can be painted by the theatre experience. And like... People were infamously badly behaved for Nosferatu. Not to the degree of, say, the minecraft movie, but enough to make me wonder "have you ever gone to a theatre before? Do you not know how to act in public?"

It's an 18+ movie, about a vampire, and people were either giggling or straight up leaving any time something even remotely sexual happened on-screen. I'm not sure what people were expecting. I haven't watched a modern horror movie since the first It, so i'm out of the loop when it comes to the general public's expectations for a horror movie. Maybe there wasn't enough blood and gore.

That said, I think I liked the movie? I think Robert Eggers is a very competent director. The only movie of his I've really loved is the Lighthouse, if only because it foregoes his usual fixation on neo-paganism, which is just a pet peeve of mine. It's present in nosferatu, though thankfully brief, with the whole romani sequence in the lodge. count orlok himself is probably the best vampire in cinema in a very long time, i love everything about him. even if it took me a while to get used to the mustache and hair.