I’m with you in the there was a better version of this movie in there somewhere. I likee it better than The Northman and definitely enjoyed it over all. A bit too reliant on jump scares imo, but i think the cast all did a wonderful job. I wish i could put a finger on what the movie was missing.
It’s an old Hollywood trick to use British accents for Continental European characters. Americans have a hard time understanding German and especially French accents. I think that today that is best solved by simply weiting the script in those languages and putting subtitles since many viewers already prefer subtitles.