The release date for Robert Eggers’ highly awaited Nosferatu remake film has been released, but we'll still have to wait over a year for the terrors to be unleashed next Christmas.
The gothic horror movie will officially hit theaters on Dec. 25, 2024, and stars an ensemble cast including Lily-Rose Depp, Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, and Willem Dafoe. This film marks the second remake of F. W. Murnau’s 1922 Dracula-inspired silent film after Werner Herzog’s 1979 picture Nosferatu the Vampyre starring Isabelle Adjani.
According to Focus Features, the film is “a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.”
Eggers recently told Empire that the movie won’t skimp on the scares. “Yeah, it’s a scary film. It’s a horror movie. It’s a Gothic horror movie,” he explained. “And I do think that there hasn’t been an old-school Gothic movie that’s actually scary in a while. And I think that the majority of audiences will find this one to be the case."
The Witch director also opened up about Skarsgård’s metamorphosis for the role of Count Orlok, remarking that he "has so transformed, I’m fearful that he might not get the credit that he deserves because he’s just… he’s not there."
“He felt like honouring who had come before him," Eggers noted of previous Court Orlok actors Klaus Kinski and Max Schreck. "It’s all very subtle. But I think the main thing is that he’s even more [of] a folk vampire. In my opinion he looks like a dead Transylvanian nobleman, and in a way that we’ve never actually seen what an actual dead Transylvanian nobleman would look like and be dressed like.”
Today's news continues to fill out what's becoming a pretty robust holiday period at the movies next year. Nosferatu will debut just a few days after Lion King prequel Mufusa and Sonic the Hedgehog 3, which both come out on Dec. 20.
Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
