Filmmaker Robert Eggers’ long-gestating remake of early cinema horror classic “Nosferatu” is finally coming to cinemas this Christmas.
With the film, “The Northman” and “The Lighthouse” director is bringing all his usual visual style to bear, resulting in some wonderfully evocative trailers thus far.
One thing kept under wraps is Bill Skarsgard’s new take on Count Orlok, whom we’ve only glimpsed from behind so far. That reveal looks like it is being saved for the film itself.
In a new interview with Total Film, Eggers says the aim of the film here is to make vampires scary again after “Twilight” and others have turned them into either sexy desirables or comedic punchlines:
“We’ve gone all the way to Edward Cullen, where vampires are not scary. So how do we go in the complete opposite direction of that? Vampires were scary enough that people used to dig up corpses and chop them into bits and set them on fire. I think we deserve a scary, smelly corpse again.”
Skarsgård reportedly worked with an opera coach to lower his voice by an octave. He also shed a bunch of weight for the film which also stars Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor Johnson and Willem Dafoe.
