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Robert Eggers wants you to see his Nosferatu as both a lover and a biter

The new Nosferatu remake has more in common with Wuthering Heights than expected.

The Witch left you wondering how real its demons were, The Lighthouse ’s tentacled sea creatures were always slithering somewhere just off-screen, and The Northman was a mythologically charged study of people’s ability to become monsters and how that transformation can rob someone of their humanity. But through his new takes on the vampiric Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård) and bedeviled housewife Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp), you can feel Eggers tapping into the darkly sexual energy that made Bram Stoker’s Dracula such a uniquely transgressive horror novel for the Victorian era. But Eggers wanted this version of Ellen to feel like a woman who, despite “understanding things on a very deep level, doesn’t have the language to articulate her experiences.” It was also important to him that this story emphasize how men’s misogynistic preconceptions of women are a kind of monster in and of themselves.

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