Robert Eggers‘ first Nosferatu trailer exhibits the Witch and The Lighthouse filmmaker’s darkish and intense new tackle Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

The horror movie stars Invoice Skarsgard as Depend Orlok (aka Nosferatu/Dracula), together with Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Willem Dafoe.

The official description from Focus Options: “Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a gothic story of obsession between a haunted younger lady and the terrifying vampire infatuated along with her, inflicting untold horror in its wake.”

Whereas the teaser trailer doesn’t but reveal Nosferatu’s face, Skarsgard, who beforehand performed Pennywise the Clown within the It movies, reportedly labored with an opera singer to decrease his voice for the function. “It was like conjuring pure evil,” he instructed Esquire. “It took some time for me to shake off the demon that had been conjured within me.”

Added Eggers to Empire: “I’ll say that Invoice has so reworked, I’m fearful that he may not get the credit score that he deserves as a result of he’s simply … he’s not there.”

Eggers additionally promised the movie would ship the scares. “There hasn’t been an old-school gothic film that’s really scary shortly. And I feel that almost all of audiences will discover this one to be the case.”

Nosferatu is taken into account a remake of the 1922 silent German expressionist traditional, with Eggers writing and directing. The helmer was initially set to group together with his The Witch star Anya Taylor-Pleasure on the movie. Manufacturing passed off within the Czech Republic final 12 months.

Nosferatu might be launched Dec. 25, Christmas Day.