‘Nosferatu’ Trailer: Robert Eggers Brings Gothic Horror Back To Where it All Started

Oct 1

From Ryan Cordaro

We’re just going to cut to the chase right here: I’ve been looking forward to this movie for a very long time. I think that Robert Eggers is one of the best directors working right now, with his brand of blending historical times with a Gothic horror atmosphere being just the right niche for me. His films The VVitch and The Lighthouse are some of my folk horror movies, if they can be categorized as that. In particular, The Lighthouse is one of my favorite movies ever. And his last film, The Northman, kept those Gothic horror elements and brought in a new aspect: ruthless Viking action. That blended incredibly well too, and that sealed Eggers for me as a director that I’d show up for anything with his name in the credits. Now, his next movie feels like a match made in heaven.

Nosferatu is the latest film adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic novel, and more specifically, being classified as a remake of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 movie, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror. If you don’t already know what this is, Nosferatu is a story of obsession between a disturbed young woman and the vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake. On top of that, it follows the woman’s husband who fights to save her from the vampire. Right when Eggers was announced to be directing a new version of Nosferatu all the way back in 2017, I knew I’d be there for it. That was before The Lighthouse and The Northman, before he’d hit his stride as a director. Since then, he’s just absolutely killed it with everything he’s made. I also really like the cast here, with Willem Dafoe coming back from The Lighthouse and The Northman, alongside some relative newcomers to Eggers’ style like Lily-Rose Depp and Bill Skarsgård, who is playing Count Orlok. I really hope they hide Skarsgård’s look as Orlok like how the marketing for Longlegs hiding Nicolas Cage’s serial killer. This is solidly my most anticipated movie of the rest of the year, and I hope it's one of the best as well.

Nosferatu stars Bill Skarsgård (IT, The Crow), Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road, the upcoming Superman), Lily-Rose Depp (The Idol, The King), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass, The Fall Guy), Emma Corrin (Deadpool & Wolverine, The Crown), Ralph Ineson (The First Omen, the upcoming The Fantastic Four: First Steps), Simon McBurney (The Pale Blue Eye, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation), and Willem Dafoe (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the upcoming Saturday Night).