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All 4 Robert Eggers Films, Ranked



Maybe beggars can’t be choosers, however Eggers (first identify Robert) may be on the subject of deciding on initiatives, given the goodwill he’s constructed up since rising to prominence as a characteristic movie director a couple of decade in the past. He may not be a family identify broadly talking, however these with an curiosity in horror and – in addition to these eager to take a look at movies that aren’t essentially blockbuster releases – might be accustomed to the identify. He’s had an analogous trajectory directing-wise to Jordan Peele, each rising to prominence with a small-scale horror movie (The Witch for Eggers, and Get Out for Peele) and following that movie up with extra bold initiatives. Ultimately, each branched out past simply horror, even when it’s a style the 2 administrators will possible keep related to for the foreseeable future. For the file, Ari Aster and his filmography‘s comparable, too; these filmmakers are all a part of an thrilling new wave of horror that’s nonetheless within the strategy of crashing down upon the shore, actually.

However, to concentrate on Robert Eggers and his characteristic movies, there have been a complete of 4 so far, and it isn’t too daring a declare to say that every one are of an impressively top quality. 2024 has seen the discharge of his fourth and most up-to-date, Nosferatu, which has typically been acquired as one other winner total. So, here is what he’s made to date (quick movies excluded), ranked from nice to biggest. There hasn’t been a foul Robert Eggers film so far, and what we do have is troublesome to rank on account of all of them being excellent, and excellent for barely totally different causes at that. His filmography can also be fascinating as a result of every movie feels distinct, but there are components of his model that may be present in all of them. Most of his films are broadly classifiable as belonging to the horror style, too, however nothing he is accomplished might actually be described as “simply” a horror film. Eggers has been a director to maintain one’s eye on for a few years now, and there’s nothing to counsel one ought to cease doing that any time quickly.

4

‘Nosferatu’ (2024)

Starring: Lily-Rose Depp, Invoice Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult

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Nosferatu may not be fairly as thrilling or technically good because the three Robert Eggers films that preceded it, however it’s obtained such stiff competitors right here that it being the “weakest” of his first 4 characteristic movies is not actually a detrimental. If it was genuinely worse in substantial methods, or some type of disappointment, that will be one other story. However the filmmaker’s ardour challenge largely turned out effectively, and stands as one other profitable re-telling/re-imagining of 1922’s Nosferatu, which itself was a spin on Dracula, altering sure names and adjusting the narrative somewhat. This makes the story additional acquainted, for many who are well-versed in traditional vampire-related horror (there have been two Nosferatu movies launched inside a couple of 12 months of one another, in any case), however Eggers does sufficient to make this one stand out. 2024’s Nosferatu goes to nice lengths to make Depend Orlok much more intimidating than ever earlier than, and additional making this stand out is the best way Eggers injects the entire movie with simple model and environment.

Story-wise, there’s a vampire who turns into obsessive about a younger girl, and pursues her in a manner that spells doom for just about everybody in shut proximity to both character. It’s bleak, darkish, bloody, fairly twisted at occasions, and all the time visually hanging. Additionally, the casting for this model of Nosferatu is on level, with Invoice Skarsgård being as nice as you’d anticipate right here, enjoying Orlok, Lily-Rose Depp delivering a career-best efficiency as Ellen, the girl Orlok is infatuated with, and the remainder of the solid members – together with Nicholas Hoult, Willem Dafoe, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson – additionally delivering. It is up there with the scariest and most thrilling films of 2024, and because the fourth movie directed by Robert Eggers, it’s solely continued a formidable sizzling streak that started a couple of decade earlier.

Nosferatu

Launch Date

December 25, 2024

Runtime

132 Minutes

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3

‘The Witch’ (2015)

Starring: Anya Taylor-Pleasure, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie

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The Witch (typically referred to as The VVitch) was the primary characteristic movie Robert Eggers directed, and is of course his most small-scale film so far. It’s pretty intimate in presentation and narrative, and focuses on a small variety of characters for almost all of its runtime. Early on in The Witch, a household residing in New England in the course of the early seventeenth century are banished from the group they stay in. The household – comprising a father, mom, and 5 youngsters of various ages – then discover themselves residing on their very own within the woods, attempting to get by with a farm life. Nearly immediately, one thing is off and really quietly unnerving, and actually, if The Witch simply performed out as a slice-of-life type of movie with out something overtly supernatural (promised by the title, in any case) occurring, it might nonetheless be an admirably unnerving and successfully atmospheric film.

When the people horror components do begin creeping their manner into The Witch, it’s all very slow-burn in a manner that could be patience-testing for some, however will possible show hypnotic and haunting for others. Wanting again on The Witch now, with data of the place Eggers would go following it, the movie does really feel comparatively quaint, and it’s hopefully not unfair to say that it doesn’t provide as “a lot” as his extra bold (genre-wise) second movie, nor does it really feel fairly as grand as his epic third movie. However as a bit of modestly-budgeted horror, The Witch does excel, turning into notably engrossing because it lunges into extra psychological drama/horror/thriller territory in its second half. It’s a film that takes a easy set-up and a not-too-surprising conclusion (at the least in hindsight), and milks it for all it’s value. The ensuing film largely lives as much as the hype, all of the whereas suggesting that Eggers had lots extra locations to go inside the horror style; that further hype/promise he lived as much as, for sure.

Launch Date

February 19, 2016

Runtime

92minutes

2

‘The Northman’ (2022)

Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang

There’s no scarcity of films which might be both based mostly on or impressed by Shakespeare’s Hamlet, however few take the type of method The Northman does. It’s a movie that stands alone inside such a grouping of films, however that’s additionally as a result of it takes inspiration from the story of Amleth, which unsurprisingly impressed the character within the Shakespeare play, due to the anagram concerned. That’s all to say that although The Northman may be paying homage to Hamlet for many viewers, it’s extra precisely an adaptation of the story that Shakespeare appreciated sufficient to adapt himself. That’s additionally to say that the narrative at hand is a timeless and constantly thrilling/transferring one, as a result of whatever the level in historical past throughout which you lived, existed, and consumed leisure, the story of 1 man getting violent revenge towards his uncle after the homicide of his father is all the time attention-grabbing. Admit it; it’s simply good drama, and the repeated retellings of this core premise again that up.

Robert Eggers makes a well-adapted story work right here and feels contemporary by going fairly wild and peculiar in locations, however arguably not as a lot as he had along with his earlier movies (each of which had extra uncommon/old-fashioned-sounding dialogue). The Northman does nonetheless have a specific amount of extremeness to it on the subject of depicting violent combat/battle sequences and containing some daring fantastical components, too. It’s a predictably tragic and bleak film ultimately, however it’s additionally tremendously thrilling and entertaining, feeling like a brilliant attention-grabbing mix between arthouse and (nearly) blockbuster filmmaking. One will get the sense Eggers was holding again just a bit, both by selection or from exterior pressures, however his model and distinctive voice nonetheless shine by, and The Northman does get extra splendidly bizarre than your common motion/journey film with a historic setting. Although it is uniquely atmospheric and stylistically daring, the story itself is fairly easy; these after motion and a easy story will principally get that with The Northman. Nonetheless, it is a massive swing of a movie, and far of it paid off. Effectively, it didn’t repay within the monetary sense, given audiences appeared weirdly apathetic to it, however it did effectively critically and would possibly effectively find yourself as a kind of cult films that, a long time from now, individuals say: “Why didn’t extra individuals watch that one when it first got here out?”

1

‘The Lighthouse’ (2019)

Starring: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman

Although The Lighthouse has an excellent smaller solid than The Witch, and technically takes place in a extra confined setting, it is a bit more bold within the sense that it ventures into extra genres than it doesn’t, actually commits to old school English, and is introduced in a manner that’s at odds with most trendy films (the facet ratio is near a sq., and it’s shot in black and white). Every little thing concerning the movie feels dangerous or probably alienating, however it by some means all comes collectively so effectively, and in such an undeniably compelling style. It follows two lighthouse keepers compelled to stay collectively on the identical tiny island towards the top of the nineteenth century, and depicts how the pair slowly drive one another mad. Verbal disputes turn out to be bodily, grips on actuality loosen, and issues progressively turn out to be extra nightmarish, otherworldly, sick, twisted, type of gross, and violent as every part builds in the direction of a puzzling but haunting conclusion.

Alongside the best way, The Lighthouse can also be extraordinarily humorous (it has extra fart jokes than one would anticipate), and options two of the perfect – and wildest – performances of the previous few years, courtesy of Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe. Each have been nice earlier than and since, however The Lighthouse would possibly characterize the excessive level of both’s performing profession so far. Saying something about this movie seems like saying an excessive amount of, however, on the identical time, it’s such an odd and out-there film that it’s inconceivable to spoil all of it; it actually simply must be skilled by anybody who’s but to see it. It’s type of artsy, but additionally extraordinarily entertaining, and inside Robert Eggers’s filmography, it’s the film to beat (and, if he by no means does, that’s greater than okay, as a result of The Lighthouse already seems like a contemporary traditional, and would possibly effectively simply get higher with age).

Two lighthouse keepers attempt to preserve their sanity whereas residing on a distant and mysterious New England island within the Eighteen Nineties.

Launch Date

October 18, 2019

Runtime

110 minutes

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