Bill Skarsgård Is a Monstrous Vampire Terrorizing Lily-Rose Depp in Chilling NewNosferatuTrailer

Mar. 15, 2025

It’s almost time forNosferatu.

On Monday, Sept. 30, Focus Features released a new trailer for filmmakerRobert Eggers' upcoming movieNosferatu, giving a glimpse atBill Skarsgård’s look as the vampire at the heart of its story.

“You’ve had these spells since childhood. Tell me what you can, from the beginning,“Willem Dafoe’s character tellsLily-Rose Depp’s, Ellen Hutter, before she recounts her horrific memories.

“It is like a dream. It was our wedding. When we turned around … everyone was dead,” Ellen says. “The stench of their bodies was horrible. Standing before me was … death.”

“But I’d never been so happy,” she adds chillingly.

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Lily-Rose Depp and Emma Corrin inNosferatu(2024).Aidan Monaghan/Focus Features

Aidan Monaghan/Focus Features

The movie “is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake,” according to an official synopsis.

Nicholas Hoult,Aaron Taylor-Johnson,Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson and Simon McBurney also star in the new movie, which is a remake of the 1922 German silent filmNosferatu: A Symphony of Horror.

Both this movie and the originalNosferatuare based on author Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 gothic horror novelDracula.

Poster forNosferatu(2024).Focus Features

Focus Features

Filmmaker Eggers, who is also known forThe Witch(2015),The Lighthouse(2019) andThe Northman(2021), has been striving to adaptNosferatufor years.

In a recent conversation between Eggers, 41, and Skarsgård forAnOthermagazine, the 34-year-old actor admitted he has never “been more terrified of a role and probably won’t be again.”

“The whole journey was so intense. Once you start channelling something that’s not you, you feel like a vessel,” Skarsgård said of his performance in that interview. “And you can go entire movies where that doesn’t happen at all or it happens in moments, but that’s always what you’re striving towards.”

Nosferatuis in theaters everywhere Dec. 25.

source: people.com