Nosferatu

Nosferatu is a 2024 American gothic horror film written and directed by Robert Eggers, and a remake of F. W. Murnau‘s 1922 film Nosferatu. The movies are inspired by Bram Stoker‘s 1897 novel Dracula, and the incredibly talented Bill Skarsgård stars as the vampire Nosferatu.  Nicholas Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp play the married Hutter couple, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, and Willem Dafoe in supporting roles.

According to Wikipedia:
“In the early 1800s, a young girl, Ellen, pleads for the arrival of a supernatural being. Her cries awaken a mysterious creature who makes her pledge herself to him eternally. Years later, in the winter of 1838, a now married Ellen lives in Wisborg, Germany, with her husband Thomas Hutter. Thomas accepts a commission from his employer to sell the decrepit home Schloss Grünewald to the reclusive Count Orlok. Ellen begs her husband not to travel to see the Count as she is haunted by dreams of marrying Death. Thomas leaves her in the care of wealthy family friends and travels to see the Count.”

“Arriving in Transylvania’s Carpathian Mountains, Thomas is shunned by the local peasantry for associating with Orlok. Thomas witnesses the townspeople impaling an alleged vampire with a stake, and the next morning he finds the village deserted. Thomas meets with the menacing Orlok, completes the property sale and finds Orlok angrily refusing to discuss the disappearance of the villagers. Thomas finds himself falling under the Count’s spell until ill and injured, he escapes to a nearby church, and then rushes back to his wife.

“In Wisborg, Ellen suffers bouts of sleepwalking and seizures, and her host goes on an insane rampage. Returning, Thomas finds illness and death. It will take all of his efforts, and that of his pure and loving wife, to defeat the Count and free all of humanity from the plague of Nosferatu. “