Neglect about bloodcurdling horror. The upcoming “Nosferatu” is a downright bloodsucker.
A chilling trailer for the vampire thriller, which serves as a remake of the 1922 silent movie of the identical title, was launched Monday and options appearances by stars Lily-Rose Depp, Willem Dafoe and Invoice Skarsgård.
Depp, who performs a tormented younger girl named Ellen Hutter, opens the trailer with a tearful prayer. “Come to me, come to me. Hear my name,” Hutter says, earlier than a hand abruptly shoots out and clenches Hutter’s neck.
Directed and written by Robert Eggers, “Nosferatu” is a “gothic story of obsession between a haunted younger girl and the terrifying vampire infatuated along with her,” in line with a movie synopsis supplied by Focus Options.
In one other scene, an overwhelmed Hutter seeks philosophical steerage from Dafoe’s character Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz.
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“Professor, my desires develop darker,” Hutter tells Professor Von Franz. “Does evil come from inside us or from past?”
The practically two-minute trailer additionally gives glimpses at Skarsgård’s transformation into the monstrous Depend Orlok (aka Nosferatu). In a single scene, Orlok is seen sitting nude inside a circle of glowing candles, whereas the trailer’s conclusion reveals Orlok’s menacing silhouette showing within the doorway of a darkish room.
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Watch the trailer for ‘Nosferatu’
Is ‘Nosferatu’ associated to ‘Dracula’?
“Nosferatu,” each the 2024 remake and 1922 authentic, are based mostly on the basic novel “Dracula” by Bram Stoker. Revealed in 1897, the gothic horror facilities the macabre exploits of the Transylvanian vampire Depend Dracula.
Eggers’ “Nosferatu” is just not the primary reboot of the vampiric icon. “Nosferatu the Vampyre,” directed by Werner Herzog, was launched in 1979 and starred Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani and Bruno Ganz.
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“Shadow of the Vampire,” launched in 2000, takes inspiration from 1922’s “Nosferatu” with a fictionalized depiction of the movie’s manufacturing. The movie starred John Malkovich, Udo Kier and “Nosferatu” actor Dafoe, the latter of whom earned an Academy Award nomination for greatest supporting actor.
“Nosferatu” shall be launched in theaters on Dec. 25.