Robert Eggers has stated that making his new movie Nosferatu was a dream come true.
The author and director on the helm of the venture – starring Lily-Rose Depp and Invoice Skarsgard – is trying to resurrect the notorious vampire for brand spanking new audiences.
“There’s no way that you’re not going to be revisiting some things, but hopefully you do it in a more unexpected way.”
He added: “Even those girls that come from The Shining and that Freddy Kruger Shadow comes from Nosferatu.”
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Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter. Pic: Aidan Monaghan
Altering the title from Dracula to Rely Orlok, the magical determine and the story round him clearly resembled that created by the Irish creator – albeit with a few the vampire’s traits altered.
Within the F W Murnau movie, Nosferatu’s chew location is completely different to that related to Dracula. The movie additionally, most notably, launched the idea that vampires die when uncovered to sunlight.
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Willem Dafoe stars as Professor Albin Eberhart von Franz. Pic: Aidan Monaghan
Fortunately, some reminiscences survived, and the movie has served because the reference level and inspiration for an enormous variety of thrillers and horror motion pictures since.
As a fanatic of the style, Eggers stated the creature led him on the trail to grow to be a movie director and he wished to mix each Rely Orlok and Dracula’s traits to affect his model of the story.
“It took many years before the film was green lit, and it fell apart several times, but I’m glad because I got better as a filmmaker and as a storyteller and more fluid with my creative heads of department and actors,” he stated.
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(L-R) Nicholas Hoult as Thomas Hutter and Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Friedrich Harding. Pic: Aidan Monaghan
“I think the most notable difference between this and other versions of Nosferatu or even Dracula is that it centres on Ellen, the female lead Lily-Rose Depp plays – it’s her story.”
He added: “As far as the vampire goes, one thing that is unique about this movie is that it is the first time that you have a Dracula character looking like a Transylvanian nobleman, looking like a dead Transylvanian nobleman. That was sort of where the look came from, it is from folklore and from history”.
The 2025 movie stars Depp as Ellen – the girl mentally captured by Skarsgard’s Rely Orlok. It additionally options performances from Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin and Willem Dafoe.
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The newest model of Nosferatu focuses extra on the feminine lead. Pic: Aidan Monaghan
Not one to shrink back from peculiar characters, that is Dafoe’s second time in a Nosferatu venture. He performed a model of the vampire within the 2000 movie Shadow Of The Vampire and says he finds the style to be fascinating.
“Movies have the possibility to speak of other worlds and other sensations and other thoughts. And I say, bring it on,” the actor stated.
“I like these elevated characters and these characters that are or have strong impulses and sometimes superficially have to have extreme looks. And yeah, that’s what I go towards”.
In the meantime Skarsgard – who additionally performed Pennywise the clown in 2017 horror IT – says it took some time for him to distance himself from the eerie feeling he embodied as Nosferatu.
“It was a very trippy experience,” he stated.
“Without trying to over romanticise the silliness of what we do for a living, I felt like I needed to channel something that was beyond me. You know, as a line in the movie says: ‘Does darkness come from within or from beyond?’ And I think part of it also came from your art.”
Nosferatu is in cinemas now.
