New Nosferatu Trailer Casts Shadow Of Death Over The Holiday Season

Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu remake is aiming to take F. W. Murnau’s classic gothic tale of obsession and bloodlust to levels it’s never experienced before. Fans have been clamoring for a look of Bill Skarsgard as the malicious Count Orlock, and while we’re not quite there, the second trailer gives us a better idea of the vibe Eggers is going for.

This will be one of a few remakes of the classic, which in itself was an unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Interestingly, an official adaptation of Dracula wouldn’t come to the big screen until nine years later, with Universal’s Dracula in 1931–though several liberties were taken from the novel. Check out the trailer below.

While we don’t see Orlock, we see his trademark silhouette with his pointed features and stretched talons. The trailer is very similar to Eggers now-classic The Witch from 2015, which is also around the time his journey to bring Orlock to the screen again started. It might also be no surprise that both The Witch and Nosferatu are edited by Louise Ford, given the similar style.

Joining Skarsgard will be Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Willem Dafoe, Eggers’ steady collaborator Ralph Ineson, and Simon McBurney.

Nosferatu sinks into theaters on Christmas Day.