Actually saw this one three weeks ago, but was too flashed back then to even remember the existence of a cultural praxis called reviewing.

I always liked PTA‘s firmness, There will be blood is one of my alltime favourites (being a millenial Radiohead fan boy for almost as long as I can think helped with that). Seeing Licorice Pizza I was surprised by its lightness, thinking „Yeah, take it easy, pal — you earned it“.

And now this.

One of —…

Some really great stuff in there — acting, sound, most of all the cinematography that beautifully blends contemporary art house horror and 1920s cinema style. Never really got hold though of the film‘s emotional core, a lot of gimickery that never really adds up to a sensable tonality. Yes, there’s all this gory-scary stuff, but the film does not seem to care about the poetics of fear — what does Orlok and all he brings with him stand for? The…