The best way to describe this is that the first half is entirely 10 out of fucking 10, while the second half fails to match the experience Robert Eggers gives us in the first half.
Right from the start, you are thrust into this surreal dread that lasts for a big part of the film. The mystery of Count Orlok and the gothic atmosphere of the film all build into incredible sequences involving dreams, the occult, and the insane events…
