Lily-Rose Depp gets bloody in a new image from Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu remake (2024)

August 27th 2024, 4:03pm

The Witch,The Lighthouse,andThe Northmanwriter/directorRobert Eggers‘ remake ofF.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classicNosferatu(watch itHERE) is set to reach theatres on Wednesday,December 25th –andwhen a teaser trailer for the film was unveiled a couple of months ago, it gave us a quick glimpse of a moment where the character played by Lily-Rose Depp (The Idol) has blood leaking from her mouth and eyes. A still frame of that moment has now made its way online, courtesy of Rue Morgue, and the image can be seen at the bottom of this article.

An unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’sDracula,the originalNosferatuhas the following synopsis:In this highly influential silent horror film, the mysterious Count Orlok (Max Schreck) summons Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim) to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen (Greta Schroeder). After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok’s servant, Knock (Alexander Granach), prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.

Eggers’Nosferatuisa gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman in 19th century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian vampire who stalks her, bringing untold horror with him.

The film starsBill Skarsgard(It) as the title character, Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man: No Way Home) as crazy vampire hunter Von Franz, Lily-Rose Depp (The Idol) as Ellen Hutter and Nicholas Hoult (Renfield) as her husband Thomas – a role Skarsgard was going to play at one point. Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Bullet Train) is in there as Thomas’s friend Friedrich Harding, with Emma Corrin (The Crown) as Friedrich’s wife Anna, Ralph Ineson (The Witch) as Von Franz’s cohort Dr. Wilhelm Sievers, and Simon McBurney (The Conjuring 2) in an unspecified role. Skarsgard has said that playing Nosferatu was like “conjuring pure evil. It took a while for me to shake off the demon that had been conjured inside of me. … I do not think people are gonna recognize me in it.“

Are you looking forward to the Nosferatu remake? Take a look at this bloody image of Lily-Rose Depp, then let us know by leaving a comment below.

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