Focus Features recently released the official teaser trailer for its upcoming Robert Eggers movie, Nosferatu.
The video begins with a crying Ellen Hutter (Lily Rose Depp), hands clasped in prayer, chanting, “Come to me. Come to me. Hear my call,” in front of a window. The scene then shifts with her laying on her back in a garden, screaming as a hand closes around her throat.
In a voice over, we hear say, “Professor. My dreams grow darker.” We see a man in a coat, presumably Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz (Willem Defoe). The scene then changes to Ellen’s husband, Thomas (Nicholas Hoult), in running through a crowd.
Where does evil come from?
“Does evil come from within us? Or from beyond?” she asks this of the professor who’s now at her bedside. We don’t hear his answer yet… but we do see a carriage on its way up to a castle some distance away.
We’re then treated to a shot of the castle’s exterior, a bridge, which then changes into a very sweaty and terrified Thomas, and a voice saying, “He is coming.” We also see the back of a naked man, sitting in front of a fire. Then there’s Friedrich Harding (Aaron Taylor Johnson) with a drink and a cigar in hand, seemingly hearing the voice as well, and a shot of rats occupying the cobbled streets outside. The voice comes from Dr. Wilhelm Sievers, who’s saying all of this as he caresses a pigeon adding, “He is coming to us,” before biting its head off.
An ominous shadow moves over the city, while we see people with torches and mourners carrying coffins down the street.
Ellen repeatedly says, “He is coming,” as a doctor hovers over her, demanding, “Who is coming to you, my child?”
The townspeople make their appearance with their torches, this time accompanied by a woman astride a horse, naked. Nuns in habits surround Thomas as he sits up violently, screaming, “No!”
There’s a shot of man in a coat, with his back to the camera, carrying what appears to be a can of gasoline, burning the altar of a church. From their, there are very quick clips of a woman tearing her gown screaming, children shrieking, Ellen with black goo running from her eyes and mouth and Anna Harding (Emma Corrin) suddenly opening a window. We then see a large man, clad in a fur-lined cloak start to turn towards the camera, presumably Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård).
Before we can see his face, the scene changes to a book cover, Professor Von Franz begins with, “We are here encountering the vampyr,” while opening the book. Somewhere, a door opens and we see a silhouette of the same man from before, a dog beside him.
Spend Christmas with Nosferatu
“Nosferatu,” the professor finishes.
The video ends with the notice: Succumb to the Darkness Christmas 2024.
The film is billed as “a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.” This is the second remake of the original 1922 film starring Max Schreck as the titular Nosferatu/Count Orlok. The first remake was released in 1979, Nosferatu the Vampyre, written and directed by Werner Herzog. The original film is said to be an “unauthorized and unofficial” adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula.
Skarsgård recently spoke with Esquire about the production. He said he worked with an opera singer so his voice is pitched is lower. The actor also spent up to six hours a day for his prosthetic makeup. He told the magazine, “It was like conjuring pure evil. It took a while for me to shake off the demon that had been conjured inside of me.”
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