Focus Features’ official Nosferatu trailer finds Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter describing her encounter with the creature: “It is like a dream. It was our wedding. When we turned around, everyone was dead. The stench of their bodies was horrible. Standing before me was death…but I’d never been so happy.”
Written and directed by Robert Eggers (The Northman, The VVitch: A New-England Folktale), Nosferatu also stars Nicholas Hoult as Ellen’s husband, Thomas. Bill Skarsgård plays Count Orlok. The cast also includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Friedrich Harding, Emma Corrin as Anna Harding, Ralph Ineson as Dr. Wilhelm Sievers, Simon McBurney as Knock, and Willem Dafoe as Professor Albin Eberhart von Franz.
Focus Features’ description reads: “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.”
During an interview with Esquire, Skarsgård was asked whether audiences will see a “sexy vampire” in Nosferatu. “He’s gross,” Skarsgård replied, adding, “But it is very sexualized. It’s playing with a sexual fetish about the power of the monster and what that appeal has to you. Hopefully you’ll get a little bit attracted by it and disgusted by your attraction at the same time.”
Eggers, Jeff Robinov, John Graham, Chris Columbus, and Eleanor Columbus serve as producers. Nosferatu is opening in theaters on Christmas.
