Lily-Rose Depp comes face-to-face with death in haunting new ‘Nosferatu’ trailer
"Standing before me was Death, but I'd never been so happy"
by Surej Singh · NMEThe first full trailer for Robert Eggers‘ highly anticipated Nosferatu remake has been released and offers a haunting new look at the film.
The upcoming film is a remake of the 1922 F. W. Murnau classic, with a heavier emphasis on gothic horror helmed by Eggers. It stars Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter, while Bill Skarsgård will play the titular vampire Count Orlok, with a bloodthirsty infatuation
The new trailer sees Hutter recounting her dreams, where everyone around her is slaughtered but that she’d “never been happier” in the face of death. The tensions rises throughout the rest of the trailer, before Hutter and Orlok finally come face-to-face, though we never really see the vampire, just his shadow.
The closing shot of the trailer also recreates an iconic shot from the 1922 original. Watch the trailer below.
Nosferatu also stars Willem Dafoe, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson and Simon McBurney.
The film is due to hit cinemas on Christmas Day (December 25) in the United States and on January 3 in the UK.
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Nosferatu will mark Eggers’ fourth feature film, after making his debut in 2015 with the acclaimed The Witch, and then following it with 2019’s celebrated The Lighthouse.
Eggers’ last film was the 2022 epic The Northman. It scored a glowing five-star review from NME, with Alex Flood writing: “If there’s one criticism to be made, it’s that the more avant-garde moments sometimes turn tedious. Dafoe is best when he’s freaking out, but an early rite-of-passage sequence that ends in an orgy of burping and farting seems silly – even if it does soften up the viewer for a shocking plot twist. Later, a mounted Valkyrie with braces flying through the sky tries to add layered meaning, yet causes confusion instead. Tone down the oddness, however, and you’d just have another gory historical snoozefest. Eggers’ style is totally unique and he’s obviously enjoying himself, even if his actors might not be.”