Prepare for Count Orlok’s arrival.
On Thursday night Focus Features had a special screening for select guild members and press of Robert Eggers‘ much-anticipated gothic vampire horror Nosferatu at the Directors Guild of America Theater in Los Angeles, according to a report on Deadline.
Following the film, a Q&A session was hosted by Guillermo del Toro with Robert Eggers. The director of the upcoming vampire flick revealed key factors that went into making the film, including trained rats, six hours of monster makeup and lead actress Lily-Rose Depp‘s dedication to learning the physical moves required of her character.
In speaking about Skarsgard’s performance as Orlok required six hours of makeup, said Eggers. “When Bill first saw the bust [of his character], he was like, ‘This guy didn’t look like me when he was alive.’ And he was pretty intimidated. But as soon as he put it on, I saw the moment when he was inspired by the makeup and knew that he could do something with it.”
The official synopsis reads “Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.”
Nosferatu stars Bill Skarsgard, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, and Willem Dafoe.
The film will arrive in theaters on Christmas. Keep it locked to Horror News Network for more on Nosferatu.
