‘Nosferatu’ is coming: Watch the terrifying trailer for Robert Eggers’ vampire tale
A vampire is coming for Christmas dinner.
On Monday, Focus Features debuted the new trailer for “Nosferatu,” the Robert Eggers gothic horror thriller the studio will debut on Christmas Day.
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Bill Skarsgard, the erstwhile Pennywise in the “It” film franchise, stars as the title bloodsucker. Lily-Rose Depp plays the apple of his eye. Here’s the official synopsis from Focus:
Robert Eggers’ NOSFERATU is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
The rest of the cast includes Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, and Willem Dafoe.
Eggers is the filmmaker behind “The Witch,” “The Lighthouse,” and “The Northman.” “Nosferatu” has been in development for years and was originally supposed to be his second feature. The film has already generated buzz for Depp and Skarsgard. Speaking in a recent interview with Eggers, Skarsgard praised Depp for her work in the film.
“I was blown away by her performance when we were shooting – even when I was just a shadow of a hand, which is when, as an actor, you get to appreciate it the most because you’re not really in the scene, so I could just watch her work,” he said. “Whereas when we were doing our moments I’d get so caught up in what it meant. But the way she committed to this movie … when I watched it, the jaw-dropping scene is the one between her and Hutter, where she’s possessed. It was the most terrifying, unsettling thing I’ve ever seen and it’s all happening in front of the camera. There’s nothing else – it’s just her and a beautiful shot. It’s out of this world, quite literally.”
“Nosferatu” is out on Christmas.
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