Willem Dafoe, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Emma Corrin are featured on Nosferatu character posters.
The witch, The Lighthouseand The Northman writer/director Robert Eggersremake of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic Nosferatu (view it HERE) arrives in theaters on Wednesday, December 25but the marketing team behind the film’s Christmas release has decided to celebrate Halloween by unveiling a series of character posters! You can check them out at the bottom of this article.
An unofficial adaptation by Bram Stokers Draculathe original Nosferatu has 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 creepy Orlok wants to buy a house from Hutter and his wife Ellen (Greta Schroeder). After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to flee the castle, knowing Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile, Orlok’s servant, Knock (Alexander Granach), prepares for his master’s arrival at his new home. Werner Herzog directed his own remake of the film in 1979.
Eggers’ take on Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman in 19th century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian vampire who haunts her and brings untold horrors..
The film features Bill Skarsgard (The) as the title character, Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man: No Way Home) as mad vampire hunter Von Franz, Lily-Rose Depp (The Idol) as Ellen Hutter and Nicholas Hoult (Renfield) as her husband Thomas – a role Skarsgard would play at one point. Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Bullet Train) is in it as Thomas’ 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 Nosferatu / Count Orlok play was as “summoning pure evil. It took me a while to shake off the demon that was summoned in me. … I don’t think people will recognize me in it.“
Skarsgard’s vampire character does not get a poster, but the character posters do shine a light on those brought to life by Dafoe, Depp, Hoult, Taylor-Johnson and Corrin.
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