Robert Eggers' new take on Nosferatu is a meticulously crafted gothic horror film that draws inspiration from various previous adaptations of the Dracula mythos. Shot in the Czech Republic with practical effects, it reimagines the story from Ellen's perspective, exploring the impact of her demonic possession on her marriage.
His interpretation of Nosferatu is in meticulous conversation with the story’s various, previous iterations: Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the 1922 F.W. Murnau film (an unauthorized Dracula adaptation) and Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu remake, and yes, that school play.
In striking gothic-horror cinematography captured by Oscar nominee Jarin Blaschke (who previously worked on Eggers’s The Lighthouse), this take reframes the story of Ellen, a young woman (Lily-Rose Depp) possessed by a demon (Bill Skarsgärd), and tells it largely from her point of view—while also examining this tortured anti-romance’s impact on her marriage to Thomas (Nicholas Hoult), a simple real estate agent. Shot in the Czech Republic with mostly practical effects and largely on soundstages, these images reveal that the new Nosferatu is an Eggers-Blaschke movie through and through—if also one with deep, fascinating roots in film history. THE BEACH Robert Eggers: This location was very difficult to find, in the Murnau film and also the Herzog version. The scene takes place on a beach—Murnau and Galeen, the screenwriter, must have read Bram Stoker’s novel and saw the description of Whitby, where you have a cemetery that overlooks the ocean, and wanted to somehow do that. It created this more humble version of sailors’ graves and sand dunes. But we shot it in the Czech Republic, which is landlocked. I thought with the Northern German setting, it would potentially make more sense for there to be an estuary near town because otherwise they would have to travel quite a long way from Wisborg to get to the seaside. We thought all our problems would be solved, and we could have a lake that we could turn into an estuary with some CG. But finding a lake in the Czech Republic that would work for us was very difficult. The one that we settled on, nobody really liked; the day we showed up, it was flooded and there was barely any shoreline to work wit
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