What makes 2024’s Nosferatu a special case is Robert Eggers. In less than a decade and with just three features on his filmography, Eggers has quickly established himself as one of the most exciting auteurs working in the medium today,

Nicholas Hoult, Willem Dafoe and Emma Corrin also star in the latest take on Bram Stoker's eternal tale of the vampire who descends from the mountains to spread plague and death.

As he more than proves with the new vampire film, Bill Skarsgård is a modern-day Lon Chaney who was born with a knack for nightmares.

Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com rates Nosferatu a perfect 4 out of 4 stars. Despite being made with the most modern technology, the movie feels like an artifact from another time, the critic writes. He calls it an “awesome achievement,” writing:

Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult and Bill Skarsgård co-star in this eerie and opulent Focus Features remake of the Dracula classic.

Robert Eggers may have intended to direct his passion project Nosferatu immediately following his excellent 2015 horror outing The Witch, but you can't keep a good vampire down. As the film's eerie marketing campaign continues to remind us: he is (finally!

The beautifully made retread, starring Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, and Lily-Rose Depp, arrives in theaters on Christmas Day. Nosferatu Review: Robert Eggers’ New Take on Dracula Never Feels Essent

Murnau premiered his silent expressionist vampire film, Nosferatu, based on Bram Stoker’s 1897 gothic horror novel, Dracula. Since then, several iterations have come and gone with varying degrees of faithfulness to the source material.