Nosferatu 4K Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		4.5
Video		4.5
Audio		5.0
Extras		4.5
Overall		5.0

Nosferatu 4K Blu-ray Movie Review

Arriving in theaters very late in 2024 and remaking the vampire's earliest appearance on the silver screen, Robert Eggers' new take on the silent- era classic of the same name, 'Nosferatu' arrives on 4K UHD in this new 'Nosferatu 4K SteelBook' courtesy of Universal. This modern retelling of F. W. Murnau's now 100-year-old silent-era masterpiece stars Lily-Rose Depp ('Yoga Hosers') as new bride Emma Hutter, Nicholas Hoult ('The Great') as her husband Thomas, alongside Willem Dafoe, Emma Corrin, and Bill Skarsgård as the monstrous Count Orlock. The 4K UHD release features a stunning 2160p presentation, a breathtaking Dolby Atmos audio track, and a reasonable assortment of on-disc supplemental material. For a discussion of this new SteelBook, please scroll down to the "Supplemental Features and Extras" section of the review.

Nosferatu 4K Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

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Nosferatu 4K Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

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Nosferatu 4K Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

The cover of the new Nosferatu 4K SteelBook is every bit as spooky, mysterious, and shrouded in shadow as the film itself and leverages colors from a cold blue-grey to black. The white calligraphy-inspired font used for the film's title adds an additional sense of the ancient and the foreign to the image. Nosferatu (or Count Orlock) is there, but only partially illuminated. In the murky light, his gnarled right hand, only slightly more apparent than the barely visible left, suggests Count Orlock/Nosferatu is rather advanced in years, as does his stooped posture. Or is he something more animalistic? His face, however, is unknowable in this light. Using the same color pallet, the back offers a precisely lit image of Lily-Rose Depp's Emma, she being clearly visible from just below her eyes to just below her shoulders. Her eyes are little more than faint pinpricks of dim light in the darkness. A reflection of some unseen light source, perhaps? Or does it imply some type of possession, psychic dominance, the awakening of lustful thoughts and wanton desires, or some other infernal influence? The spine simply hosts the film's title in the same white font that appears on the cover but is so small as to almost be one of the contractual details in which the devil customarily hides. Neither Universal's logo nor a product number appear anywhere on the outside of the case. It's a clean, efficient, and highly atmospheric outer package. When opening the SteelBook, the Digital Code resides under the two tabs on the left side. On the right side, the 4K UHD disc and the Blu-ray disc are stagger-stacked, each on its own hub, with the 4K UHD disc on top. Removing the discs reveals a panoramic image of a carriage on the narrow mountain pass as it heads toward Count Orlock's crumbling castle. This interior image seems to move closer to a traditional black-and-white color scheme and the picture is again seen as if through a thin veil of mist or fog. Creepy, haunting, and filling the beholder with a sense of uncertainty and dread, it's a perfect design for a film such as Nosferatu, and the matte finish should resist fingerprints nicely.

Nosferatu 4K Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

There are those who prefer the cover art for the standard release which depicts the titular villain's hand gently touching Lily-Rose Depp's face and neck in a manner that is both erotic and menacing. Fitting, as most vampire stories have ever been a mixture of sex and death and those tones definitely weave through Robert Eggers' Nosferatu from the very start. For me though, the mysteriously shadowed SteelBook is the preferred packaging at the moment. Just as darkness permeates the film and careful choices are made with regard to what to illuminate and what to leave obscured or hidden, those same sensibilities are on full display here, as the SteelBook perfectly captures the look and the emotions generated by the film in just three images. The Nosferatu 4K SteelBook comes highly recommended to horror fans and SteelBook collectors alike.