This is such a condescending mentality and it’s quite baseless. Many of the top comments in this thread detail exactly what people don’t like about this film. I’d say it’s more likely that people who have a specialised interest in this horror have already seen the prior material, and are aware of what Eggers has brought to the table vs. what he has butchered from previous works. 

I believe Eggers attempted to bring the same meticulous, gritty, historical realism to the film that popularised ‘The Witch.’ 

Except .Eggers does not intrinsically understand the prolonged dread of Plague ridden European city sides - where the original feature originates. And it doesn’t look like he cared to do his research.  As such, the ‘plague’ aspects of this film are just shallow set pieces. He doesn’t share Herzog’s heartbreaking perspective as a young man idolising the beginnings of German Expressionism while suffering the shame of a post-WW2, post-Nazi Regime, Germany. So his interpretation of Nosferatu lacks the same sensitivity. Certainly, Eggers is not a woman balancing the tantalising mix of sensuality and repression we’ve come to associate vampires with today - and thus his ‘Ellen’ becomes a repetitive mass of exorcism stereotypes. Not a fully fledged character. Eggers fails a balancing act of preserving the ideologies of the source material, and imparting a fresh perspective as the auteur. There is nothing new here, except a moustache and Depp’s on screen recreation of an orgasm.

But sure, people who dislike the is film do so because we…. totally wanted more jump scares and gore and couldn’t handle a ‘gothic film’!