Nosferatu

Bram Stoker’s Dracula has inspired hundreds of vampire films over the years and the latest, a new version of Nosferatu, is now hitting the big screen.

Robert Eggers’s new film, a remake of the 1922 silent movie of the same name, is set in 1830s Germany and tells the story of Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp), a tortured woman who has a psychic connection with the vampire Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgard).

One day, Orlok invites her estate agent husband Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) to his castle in Transylvania, Romania to help with the sale of a decrepit mansion, but that turns out to be the first play in his plan to be with Ellen once and for all.

With period horrors such as The Witch and The Lighthouse under his belt, Eggers was clearly the right director for this job. It’s rare for a filmmaker and a piece of source material to be so well suited. He has been working on this remake for 10 years and you can see that passion for the story and his...