The first trailer for Robert Eggers’ ‘Nosferatu’ rises from the shadows
One of the most intriguing and innovative filmmakers working today is, without a doubt, Robert Eggers. Through his three feature films, The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman, he has shown that he is a creative force to be reckoned with. Now, he’s ready to take things up a notch with a completely atmospheric and chilling new adaptation of F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu. And this trailer will leave you gasping for breath.
Watch the brand new first trailer for Nosferatu below:
Here’s the official synopsis:
Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
Writer/director Robert Eggers is a true craftsman at heart, and his films impact viewers with their attention to detail, meticulous ambience and thrilling sense of narrative and character. Eggers brings that same sense of gravitas to his new look Nosferatu, which is a new adaptation of the classic horror piece, Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens, by director F. W. Murnau and screenwriter Henrik Galeen, and which now stands as a classic example of German expressionistic cinema. And after 102 years, the horror returns!
This first-look trailer offers audiences an atmospheric and intense piece of filmmaking that will fill them with dread and promise lashings of blood. Eggers has commented that he wants to produce a film that is a straight-up ‘gothic horror’, and this new work looks utterly terrifying in its construction. Nosferatu has long served as Eggers’ passion project, and you can sense that he’s crafting a film where the focus is to scare the living hell out of audiences.
To bring Nosferatu out of the shadows, Eggers has assembled an incredible cast of actors, including Bill Skarsgård, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin and Willem Dafoe, and all of them are at the top of their game with their performances in this picture. Lily-Rose Depp is flawlessly cast as Ellen Hutter, an innocent who falls under the dark spell of a demonic force, and you can feel her sense of fairness intensely in this first footage. Nicholas Hoult’s Thomas Hutter is a man possessed, and you can see his desperate sanity failing as he tries to make sense of the horrors around him. Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Emma Corrin make a great pairing of Friedrich and Anna Harding and will add a good dose of vigour to the production. At the same time, Willem Dafoe Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz appears as a dangerous vampire hunting force. You can sense the obsession and, dare I say, a touch of madness as he strives to eradicate the dark force he has encountered.
As yet unseen but already channelling a terrifying presence of pure evil is Bill Skarsgård, who brings to life the iconic presence of Count Orlock, cinema’s original horror monster, and while he’s yet to be clearly seen, his devilish spectre is deeply felt in this trailer. Eggers has heaped significant praise upon Skarsgård’s performance here as Orlock, calling his performance ‘transformative’ and commenting on Skarsgård’s performance, saying, “‘What would a dead Transylvanian nobleman actually look like for real?’ Bill lost a tremendous amount of weight. He’s so transformed in every aspect that I don’t know if people will give him the credit,” said Eggers. “You can see Bill [as Pennywise] in the It make-up; you can’t detect any Bill here. He worked with an opera coach to lower his voice an octave. I think people are going to think we treated it digitally, but that’s his performance.”
This first trailer for Nosferatu is just a tease of the horror that is to come. With its stalking terror, it will surely scare the living hell out of audiences when it arrives in cinemas this Christmas.
Image: Universal Pictures
