Nosferatu: Robert Eggers remake gets an international trailer, unveils a new image of Nicholas Hoult (2024)

October 11th 2024, 10:32am

The Witch,The Lighthouse,andThe Northmanwriter/directorRobert Eggers‘ remake ofF.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classicNosferatu(watch itHERE) is set to reach theatres on Wednesday,December 25th –andwith that date just a couple of months away, we’ve gotten our hands on an international trailer with Portuguese subtitles. You can check that out in the embed above. The folks at Total Film have also unveiled a new image of the character played by Nicholas Hoult, and that can be found at the bottom of this article.

An unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’sDracula,the originalNosferatuhas the following synopsis:In this highly influential silent horror film, the mysterious Count Orlok (Max Schreck) summons Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim) to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen (Greta Schroeder). After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok’s servant, Knock (Alexander Granach), prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.Werner Herzog directed his own remake of the film in 1979.

Eggers’take onNosferatuisa gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman in 19th century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian vampire who stalks her, bringing untold horror with him.

The film starsBill Skarsgard(It) as the title character, Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man: No Way Home) as crazy vampire hunter Von Franz, Lily-Rose Depp (The Idol) as Ellen Hutter and Nicholas Hoult (Renfield) as her husband Thomas – a role Skarsgard was going to play at one point. Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Bullet Train) is in there as Thomas’s friend Friedrich Harding, with Emma Corrin (The Crown) as Friedrich’s wife Anna, Ralph Ineson (The Witch) as Von Franz’s cohort Dr. Wilhelm Sievers, and Simon McBurney (The Conjuring 2) in an unspecified role. Skarsgard has said that playing Nosferatu / Count Orlok was like “conjuring pure evil. It took a while for me to shake off the demon that had been conjured inside of me. … I do not think people are gonna recognize me in it.“

Are you looking forward to Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu remake? Take a look at the international trailer and the image below, then let us know by leaving a comment.

Tags: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, aith, Arrow in the head, Bill Skarsgard, Emma Corrin, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Nosferatu, Ralph Ineson, Robert Eggers, Simon McBurney, Willem Dafoe

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