"There is an infection running throughout Hollywood. Or is it a curse? The dead have awakened. The symptoms are eerily similar: the old made new again, over and over, without reason or cause, most becoming monstrous imitations of their original bodies, unholy resurrection after unholy resurrection. We could assemble thought leaders of science and religion, of the arcane and the occult, to investigate. Or, more likely, we could just ask a finance guy."
"I'm speaking, of course, of the sudden obsession with our Gothic horror classics that now seem to be annual tentpoles at the megaplex. I'm not quite sure when it began, this wave of zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monsters and one magical wooden boy. We're overrun! There's Robert Eggers's faithful remake of "Nosferatu" (2024); Robert Zemeckis's "Pinocchio" (2022); Guillermo Del Toro's "Pinocchio" ( also 2022);"
""Dracula," which is also known as "Dracula: A Love Tale" and hits theaters Friday, is the latest. It comes to us from the French filmmaker Luc Besson, known to film nerds for Natalie Portman's debut film "Leon: The Professional" (1994) and to most of the rest of us for the sci-fi "The Fifth Element" (1997). Well, bring your garlic and your crosses, maybe even a wooden stake. This one should have stayed (un)dead."
There is a surge of Gothic horror remakes across Hollywood, reviving classic monsters in tentpole releases. The trend repeatedly repackages Dracula, Nosferatu, Frankenstein, Pinocchio, and other Gothic figures. High-profile directors such as Robert Eggers, Robert Zemeckis, Guillermo del Toro, Maggie Gyllenhaal, André Øvredal, Chris McKay, and Luc Besson are attached to these projects. The list of recent and upcoming titles includes Nosferatu (2024), two Pinocchio adaptations (2022), Frankenstein (2025), The Bride! (upcoming), The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023), and Renfield (2023). Luc Besson's Dracula is confounding and poorly executed.
Read at The Washington Post
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