Bill Skarsgård, of course, is no stranger to playing frightening characters, having starred as Pennywise the Clown in the two-film, big-screen adaptation of Stephen King’s It in 2017 and 2019.

There is so much of vampire Count Orlok in “Nosferatu” that isn’t Bill Skarsgård: facial prosthetics, creepy undead makeup, eerily long fingers. The deep rumbling roar, though? All ...