2025 is off to a strong start with the remake of this iconic film rated 4 out of 5… here are the first images!

After Max Schreck and Klaus Kinski in Werner Herzog’s first remake in 1979, Nosferatu returns to cinemas in 2025 with a new incarnation, and the first (scary) images are finally here! The trailer has just been released.

“Does evil come from us or from beyond?,” asks Lily-Rose Depp in the trailer, which plays in full stop… “It comes, it comes…” (It comes, it comes).

Nosferatu is currently played by Bill Skarsgård, a Metamorphosis regular. Before him, Nicholas Hoult will play Thomas Hatter, who discovers Count Orlok’s castle in the Carpathians. and Lily-Rose Depp as his wife Helen, who falls in love with a vampire before he is traced back to 19th-century Germany.

After playing Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire, the story of the first Nosferatu, Willem Dafoe finds himself playing Count Orlock as Professor Albin Eberhart von Franz, the hunter inspired by Bulwer’s character in the original. Who was Van Helsing’s derivative? “dracula” By Bram Stoker.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson will play Friedrich Harding, Hutter’s friend, who should have a slightly more prominent role in this new film. As does his wife Anna, played by Emma Corinne.

The cast includes Simon McBurney (Nock, a businessman who has a telepathic connection to Orlok and sends Hatter into his clutches) and Ralph Ineson as Dr. Wilhelm Sievers.

All in front of Robert Eggers’ camera. Detouring from Viking mythology (The Northman), he returns to the gothic horror of The Witcher, his debut film.

What will Nosferatu say?

Simply put: if you want to know the story of Nosferatu, you take the story of Dracula and change the names. Because FW Murnau’s film is an unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel, which the rights holders have not confirmed.

Therefore, Robert Eggers’ version must retain many elements, from the overall plot to 19th-century Germany as the setting, including Count Orlok’s appearance, which is far removed from the seductive side often associated with vampires (but which was partially found. , Werner in Herzog’s film).

Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu will be released on January 1, 2025.