Robert Eggers’ Latest Nosferatu Trailer Promises a Very Creepy Christmas

The director of The Witch is back to create more cinematic nightmares, this time with Bill Skarsgård as the dreadful Count Orlok.

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Focus Features has released a new full-length trailer for Robert Eggers‘ Nosferatu. Sink your fangs, below: Revealing more of the story this time around, the new trailer sees Ellen Hutter (Lily Rose-Depp) suffer recurring nightmares (and mixed feelings) about the wedding night massacre of her husband (Nicholas Hoult) at the hands of Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård). Professor Albin Heinz Eberhart von Franz (Willem Dafoe) tasks himself with eradicating the world of this vampiric scourge, whose coming is heralded by a swarm of plague-bearing rats straight outta Transylvania. Per the film’s official description, though, “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.” Well, not quite untold, as Nosferatu is naturally another remake of F.W. Murnau’s 102-year old German Expressionist classic. From the looks of things, however, the film seems to be equally indebted to Werner Herzog’s own 1979 remake starring Isabelle Adjani and Klaus Kinski as much as the original—not to mention the numerous other film adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula over the years. Come to think, Depp’s dress in this looks at least partially inspired by two separate outfits worn by Amy Yasbeck in Mel Brooks’ Dracula: Dead and Loving It, but that’s probably coincidence, right? Simon McBurney’s turn as Herr Knock also seems to be giving major Giovani Franzoni-as-Renfield vibes in Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D, but you borrow from the best, right? Sadly, we imagine Count Orlok likely won’t transform into a human-sized praying mantis in this one, but we’ll see. Starring Lily-Rose Depp, Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Willem Dafoe, Simon McBurney, and Ralph Ineson, Robert Egger’s Nosferatu is slated for a festive December 25 release. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
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