Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu sees Bill Skarsgård as the terrifying vampire Count Orlok, and the movie repeats the best trick from Skarsgård’s other big horror project from eight years ago: Andy Muschietti’s It. Robert Eggers has become one of the most acclaimed filmmakers in recent years and has become especially popular in the horror genre. Eggers’ latest project is Nosferatu, a remake of the 1922 classic German expressionist movie of the same name, itself an unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, starring Bill Skarsgård as the legendary vampire.

Nosferatu takes the audience to 1838 to meet Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp), a young woman haunted by nightmares of a mysterious and terrifying creature. When her husband, Thomas (Nicholas Hoult), is sent to Transylvania to sell a house to Count Orlok, the latter terrifies the former, unleashing a real nightmare as Orlok is the creature haunting Ellen and wanting to take her.