Nosferatu

Image: Sony PicturesSince late last year, Robert Eggers has been gradually adding stars to the incoming remake of Nosferatu that he’ll be writing and directing. Bill Skarsgård and Lily Rose-Depp were the first to join his film, followed by Nicholas Hoult and more recently Willem Dafoe, who previously worked with Eggers on last year’s The Northman.Focus announced via press release that the film’s main cast also features Aaron Taylor-Johnson, star of last year’s Bullet Train and (eventually) Kraven the Hunter. He’s joined…

Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck/Count Orlok in 2000's Shadow of the Vampire.Screenshot: Lions GateWillem Dafoe was born to star in a remake of the classic, 1922 German vampire film Nosferatu, which is why I guess he’s doing it twice. Soon, he’ll reteam with his Northman and The Lighthouse collaborator, director Robert Eggers, in a reimagining of the classic horror movie. But it won’t be the first time Dafoe will star in Nosferatu, more or less.Shadow of the Vampire is a rather obscure movie from 2000 about the making of…

It was a nightmare born out of a pandemic: a silent killer that arrived from a faraway land, rapidly spreading a delirious fever across the domestic population and leaving its hosts in an anaemic stupor.By channelling contemporary fears around infectious diseases in the wake of the 1918-20 influenza pandemic, the 1922 expressionist masterpiece Nosferatu founded an entire genre of vampire horror movies and inspired claw-fingered monsters that would spook generations to come, from Freddy Krueger to the Babadook.A hundred…

Credit: Prana Films Vampires tend to stick around, which is why it’s only fitting that Nosferatu, a horror film to end all horror films, has found itself at 100 years old; just in time for Halloween. You read that right, this spine-tingling masterpiece has been around for more than a century, and you can catch the full movie for free online. Just be prepared for a few nightmares afterward. It was here before you were born, and will be here long after you’re gone. Fate truly has a wicked sense of humor. Based on…

It feels right, the knowledge that Nosferatu has been around for a full century. A few years after its 1922 release, the odds were not in its favor: in 1924, the studio behind FW Murnau’s silent horror film agreed to destroy all copies of the film, as part of a copyright infringement case pursued by Florence Balcombe, the widow of the Dracula author Bram Stoker. Nosferatu is not technically an adaptation of Dracula, in the sense that it was produced without the permission of Stoker’s estate and changed the names of all…

Robert Eggers has made quite the splash on the filmmaking scene for nearly a decade, first delivering The Witch to audiences in 2015, followed by The Lighthouse in 2019 and The Northman earning rave reviews earlier this year. So what’s next for the director? Well, good news for those of you who were disappointed when Eggers had to set aside his Nosferatu remake a few years back: the project is back on, and it’s found stellar replacements for Harry Styles and Anya Taylor-Joy.Initially the plan had been for Don’t Worry…

Screenshot: Prana FilmEver since Robert Eggers announced his arrival on the auteur filmmaking scene with 2015's The Witch, he’s let it be known that he intended to tackle an adaptation of vampire classic Nosferatu. That project is finally ramping up, with a killer cast announced today.Deadline reports that Eggers has tapped It’s Bill Skarsgård (after directing Bill’s brother Alexander in The Northman, Eggers seems to be collecting Skarsgårds like they’re Pokémon), who’ll play the undead Count Orlock, and Lily-Rose Depp…

Image via Lionsgate Films The Northman director Robert Eggers has found his next movie, and it’s one he’s been trying to drag out of development hell for years. The acclaimed filmmaker first announced he was working on a remake of seminal silent horror film Nosferatu way back in 2015, but the project has been stuck in limbo ever since. Following yesterday’s news that Eggers is finally moving forward with the project, the production has now landed its somewhat surprising leading stars. As first reported by…