How is evil more powerful than evil? If you’d like to know the answer to that question, you’ll have to watch Robert Eggers’ remake of Nosferatu. The director of The Northman and The Witch is back with a new take on the vampire tale, this one starring masterful creature-portrayer Bill Skarsgård (It) as old Count Orlok himself. Lily-Rose Depp is the young woman seduced by the dark side—or, as the brief summary puts it, the center of “a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.”
Seems like the infatuation goes both ways, much to the chagrin of Renfield’s Nicholas Hoult, who plays Thomas Hutter, the husband to Depp’s Ellen Hutter. Willem DaFoe plays Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz, who clearly has some thoughts about the nature of evil. The rest of the cast includes Emma Corrin (Deadpool & Wolverine) as Anna Harding, Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter) as Friedrich Harding, and Simon McBurney (Carnival Row) as Knock.
In AnOther magazine, Skarsgård and Eggers had a conversation about the movie, and Skarsgård said of playing Orlok: “I’ve never been more terrified of a role and probably won’t be again. The whole journey was so intense. Once you start channelling something that’s not you, you feel like a vessel. … It was an intense ride.”
Nosferatu is in theaters December 25th.
