Nosferatu‘s Popcorn Coffin Is a Deadly Entry in 2024’s Bucket Arms Race

This Christmas, all the chill kids are going to suck. Suck blood, that is, erstwhile they spell to spot easy the darkest wide merchandise this vacation season, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu. It stars Bill Skarsgård arsenic the evil Count Orlok, an immortal vampire whose power implicit a young mates (Nicholas Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp) throws a full municipality into chaos.

Local theaters mightiness beryllium chaos excessively acknowledgment to a promotional tie-in to the film. Focus Features has revealed it’s teaming with prime theaters (it’s unclear which, specifically, truthful cheque your section one) to merchandise a peculiar popcorn bucket for the film. It’s of Count Orlok’s coffin. You spot a glimpse above, see a small video here, and here’s a amended image.

The Nosferatu popcorn bucket – Focus

Though themed popcorn bucks person agelong been a thing, the inclination saw a immense surge successful 2024 with the merchandise of the sexually charged bucket for Dune: Part Two. That shined a caller spotlight connected consequent buckets from films specified arsenic Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, and gave Marvel an excuse to marque its ain sexually suggestive bucket for Deadpool and Wolverine. The buckets person continued since, astir precocious with one for Gladiator II that uses augmented reality.

This Nosferatu bucket is wherever it’s astatine though. A prop from the movie, translated to a popcorn receptacle with a signifier that tin really clasp popcorn. We’re each astir it. Plus, with tickets present connected merchantability for the vacation thriller, Focus is having immoderate other amusive too. For example, sold-out seats connected Fandango amusement up arsenic coffins for the film. How macabre is that?

The reserved seats for ‘NOSFERATU’ connected Fandango are coffins.

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We’ll person much from Nosferatu successful the coming weeks. For now, wherever does this fertile among 2024 popcorn buckets for you? Let america cognize below. Co-starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, and Willem Dafoe, Nosferatu opens connected Christmas Day.

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