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"The memory of his cruelty is forever burned into my mind."

I redrawn this drawing with baby Vincent just because I wanted to.

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Leonard? Is that you?

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Claudia Wolf says: "Beat your abusers!"

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Hi! Because of the silent hill 2 remake and my brain being OBSESSED with it I want to post what I have of my silent Hill Tarot deck. These are pretty old now and I’m not happy with a few of them, but i still love them

Part 1

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I guess my question is why did Orlock kill the girls? I get killing Anna because of Ellen but why the children?

This is the best example on why the collective psychosis angle of interpretation works so well in this film. At the funerals, Harding still doesn’t believe in any monster when Orlok supposedly ripped his daughters’ throats the night before. He blames Ellen and Von Franz “diseased minds” for Anna and the children deaths, and only sort of changes his mind when Thomas shows him his own bite mark, but later doesn’t even care about using his final hours to hunt the monster who is said to have killed his family, he goes to them to die, instead. Plus, the girls Orlok kills have straight, dark hair (sort of like Ellen), while Clara and Louise have curly blonde hair like Anna and wear nightcaps to bed.

We know the children die of plague, but so does Harding yet Orlok doesn’t feed on him and, on top of Anna, there were plague rats (Nosferatu controls). Nosferatu and the plague rats are the same, and I think Eggers decision to ditch the extra boxes of earth and let the plague-carrier rats be attracted to the demonic power of Nosferatu is far more interesting, and also comes from the “Dracula” novel. And are of extreme importance to the ending, as well, because when the vampire hunters arrive at Grunewald Manor, the chapel is filled with rats yet Orlok is not there anymore, Knock is.

But, from Thomas at the castle (now a deleted scene), we also know these characters have some sort of visions/dreams of Orlok when they are connected to Nosferatu. Thomas dreams of Orlok’s shadow reaching out to Ellen in Wisburg, and that’s why he’s so sure he wants Ellen. So, while the scene of Orlok killing two girls is more fitting with the collective psychosis angle of interpretation (death and disease spare no one; Anna’s identity is tied with her children because of her gender role; Anna’s dark desires (she connects love with burden); the dark hair might be because Anna sees Ellen as one of her children), it still has an explanation if the supernatural (Count Orlok) is real, and is most likely connected to Orlok showing these characters’ visions. Also, Eggers compared his Orlok to Heathcliff (“Wuthering Heights”) several times, and one of the things about book Heathcliff is how he projects and forces his own trauma into the “second generation”. As Eggers put it: “What is the dark trauma that even death cannot erase?” This is a key part of the “enigma of Nosferatu”, and Bill Skarsgård did reveal that Orlok had a wife and family. Harding is one of his mirror foil characters for a reason.

The two girls were included by Eggers, because there were no children in the previous “Nosferatu” adaptations, and no characters in the “Dracula” novel have kids during the book events, either. The source for these two girls has to come from a book Eggers mentioned on one of his essays: “The Annotated Dracula” by Leonard Wolf, and I already talked about it in connection to this very topic in another post.

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The world is teeming with unnecessary people. It's God's decision that I fight. As a knight of honor, as a protector of the seal, I sacrifice myself to the blood of criminals.

(I love Heather's response to reading that, btw: "Who wrote this? Some twisted individual, eh? I see this and wanna ask him, 'So you think you’re one of the necessary ones?'")