Nosferatu Images Make Waiting For Horror Epic Unbearable

The newly released Nosferatu images depict a carriage traveling a curvy mountainside road against a moonlit backdrop, a gothic castle in the distance, some gothic architecture, and actress Lily-Rose Depp with bloody tears running down her face. These are all the elements of classic horror that are meant to inspire fear in a person while also conveying a scary narrative instead of inducing fear through harsh and sudden audio. This sets the expectation bar for Nosferatu even higher than before, especially among the fans of classic horror.  

Admittedly, it’s not that hard to produce good classic horror these days, especially since the horror movie genre has become somewhat stale over the years, with Hollywood no longer being interested in fresh ideas that don’t guarantee pay. Instead, the industry now likes to play it safe with its remakes and stale tropes, which reduced the horror genre to the aforementioned jump-scares and cheap thrills. But not all remakes are bad, especially if they’re classic horror remade by Robert Eggers, the director of the upcoming Nosferatu.

Eggers is known for writing and directing horror movies that are noted for their folkloric and mythological elements, as well as his thorough efforts to ensure historical authenticity, which is evident by the Nosferatu images of actors in era-appropriate clothing. 2015’s The Witch and 2019’s The Lighthouse are also good examples of his approach to writing and directing, and the same can be said for The Northman, which admittedly isn’t horror, but it’s still a fantastic piece of cinematography for the fans of historical fiction.

For those who aren’t aware, the upcoming Nosferatu is a remake of an original 1922 silent movie directed by F. W. Murnau that follows the vampire Count Orlok, who seeks to buy real estate in Germany and falls in love with the real-estate agent’s wife. It was an unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel—which received its official adaptation in 1992—and it almost led to all the copies of the movie being destroyed due to copyright infringement. It ultimately survived by changing its name and altering certain plot points.

The original Nosferatu movie, fully titled Nosferatu: The Symphony of Horror, is easily one of the film industry’s best Dracula movies and has introduced some of the best-known vampire tropes we still enjoy today, like vampires being destroyed by the sun—where Stoker’s Dracula was merely weakened by the sunlight. It’s a true miracle it survived its court-ordered destruction, earning a century of fandom love and finally receiving a much-deserved remake from one of the aspiring masters of horror—who is also working on a miniseries based on the life of Rasputin.

For those interested in watching Nosferatu, the highly-anticipated horror is scheduled to hit the theaters on December 25, 2024, and judging by the images that were shared, we might be looking at a vampire film that could finally match the success of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.  

Source: Bloody Disgusting