Robert Eggers’ Latest Nosferatu Trailer Promises a Very Creepy Christmas

Focus Features has released a caller full-length trailer for Robert Eggers‘ Nosferatu. Sink your fangs, below:

Revealing much of the communicative this clip around, the caller trailer sees Ellen Hutter (Lily Rose-Depp) endure recurring nightmares (and mixed feelings) astir the wedding nighttime massacre of her hubby (Nicholas Hoult) astatine the hands of Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård). Professor Albin Heinz Eberhart von Franz (Willem Dafoe) tasks himself with eradicating the satellite of this vampiric scourge, whose coming is heralded by a swarm of plague-bearing rats consecutive outta Transylvania.

Per the film’s official description, though, “Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is simply a gothic communicative of obsession betwixt a haunted young pistillate and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold fearfulness successful its wake.” Well, not quite untold, arsenic Nosferatu is people different remake of F.W. Murnau’s 102-year aged German Expressionist classic.

From the looks of things, however, the movie seems to beryllium arsenic indebted to Werner Herzog’s ain 1979 remake starring Isabelle Adjani and Klaus Kinski arsenic overmuch arsenic the original—not to notation the galore different movie adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula implicit the years. Come to think, Depp’s formal successful this looks astatine slightest partially inspired by 2 abstracted outfits worn by Amy Yasbeck successful Mel Brooks’ Dracula: Dead and Loving It, but that’s astir apt coincidence, right? Simon McBurney’s crook arsenic Herr Knock besides seems to beryllium giving large Giovani Franzoni-as-Renfield vibes successful Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D, but you get from the best, right? Sadly, we ideate Count Orlok apt won’t alteration into a human-sized praying mantis successful 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.

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