If you want to spend your holidays succumbing to the darkness, then you’re in luck: Nosferatu is opening in theaters this week, on Christmas Day.
Written and directed by Robert Eggers (known for his twisted horror films like The Witch and The Lighthouse), this film is a remake of the famed 1922 silent German film Nosferatu, which itself was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula.
This version of Nosferatu stars Nicholas Hoult (in his second Dracula adaptation in two years time, following 2023’s Renfield) as Thomas Hunter and Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hunter, a newly-wed couple in 1838 Germany. Thanks to a wish she made as a girl, Ellen finds herself stalked by a dark creature of the night, Count Orlok (played by Bill Skarsgård).
Also starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, and Willem Dafoe, Nosferatu is a love letter to classic horror that’s
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