MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on the Kicking the Seat's YouTube Channel Talking "Nosferatu"

Debuting in the darkest recesses of multiplexes and arthouse theaters this week is Robert Eggers’s monochromatic remake of Nosferatu, paying homage to the 1922 German silent film he and many others love dearly. Ian was ready to talk about it. So, for the special holiday, yours truly appeared as “Santa Critic” from “The North Pole of Elmwood Park” and joined Ian, Jeff York of The Establishing Shot and Pipeline Artists, Annie Banks of The Mary Sue, The Blonde in Front’s Cati Glidewell, and Mike Crowley of You’ll Probably Agree for the dais.

Media Appearance, Podcast, Social Media, SPECIAL, 2020Don ShanahanDecember 27, 2024AMC River East 21Kicking the Seat, Ian Simmons, Nosferatu, Jeff York, Annie Banks, Mike Crowley, Cati Glidewell, The Blonde in Front, You'll Probably Agree, The Mary Sue, The Establishing ShotComment

MOVIE REVIEW: Nosferatu

For many, the stark and startling films of Robert Eggers are existential affairs and appointment viewing for those cinephiles who overuse the term “elevated horror.” To others, his level of haunting disquiet triggers them all the wrong ways. No matter where one sits, audiences will marvel at the strong female nucleus of Nosferatu and the vigorous lyrical poetry given to unholy terror. As his own master of the horror genre who set out to achieve a decade-plus passion project, Eggers unleashed his vision in an unshackled and uninhibited way only he could accomplish.