Robert Eggers

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q20826736: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: The Witch (2015); The Lighthouse (2019); The Northman (2022); Nosferatu (2024); no film named. Count them as writer (1 film) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

It Follows (2014): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Witch (2015), which they directed: It Follows ⇒ The Witch (the host's read). It Follows is a precursor to The Witch in the rise of the term elevated horror, a phrase both hosts distrust.
“I think is an interesting precursor to the witch because that's when we started hearing what I think is kind of an ugly phrase, which is elevated horror”
The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:44:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Directing (8) everyone in directing

director (alien-past approach), no film named (Blank Check with Griffin & David, The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie)
director, The Northman (The Big Picture, The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’)
director, Nosferatu (The Big Picture, The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’)
director, The Lighthouse (The Big Picture, Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show)
director, The Witch (The Big Picture, Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show)
director, The Witch (The Big Picture, The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture)
director, The Lighthouse (The Big Picture, The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture)
director (called 'Robert' and 'Agris'), The Northman (Blank Check — Patreon, The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free))

Writing (1) everyone in writing

writer of the Melville-esque dialogue, The Lighthouse (The Big Picture, Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show)

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

career (career): Robert Eggers → The Lighthouse. Eggers moved from The Witch to The Lighthouse, fantasmagoric rather than strictly horror.
“Robert Eggers, who made the witch, just put out the lighthouse, which is kind of fantasmagoric”
The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:07:09 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.50 sure it was them)

craft (2)

craft (aesthetic): The Last Temptation of Christ → Robert Eggers. Its depiction of the past as truly alien feels like Eggers's work.
“Feels very like Robert Iggers to me these days of like trying to take seriously the fact that the past is truly different”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 1:05:21 · Jamelle Bouie (0.70 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Robert Eggers → The Northman. Eggers insists his Vikings are sincere with Viking goals (Valhalla), not made for the audience.
“Agris's whole deal with all his movies where he's like, this is sincere.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 0:30:20 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.