Doug Jones’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror will be Released in October

Back in 2015, it was announced that The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman writer/director Robert Eggers (who was, at the time, had only made The Witch) was intending to adapt F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic Nosferatu.

Fisher has done “remixing” of silent classics before. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a 2005 adaptation of Robert Wiene’s 1920 film, was his previous feature. In Fisher’s rendition, the actors enacted their parts in front of a green screen, enabling them to be digitally placed into exact replicas of the original sets. He used precisely the same strategy with his Nosferatu.

Veteran creature performer Doug Jones (The Shape of Water) plays the title vampire. Emrhys Cooper (Vanity), Time Winters (9-1-1), Sara Montez (Birds of Prey), Thomas Ian Nicholas (American Pie), Joely Fisher (Ellen), and Sarah Carter (Falling Skies) have joined him in the cast.

The original Nosferatu, an unofficial version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, is summarised as follows: The enigmatic Count Orlok (Max Schreck) invites Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim) to his secluded Transylvanian castle in the mountains in this incredibly influential silent horror picture. The unsettling Orlok wants to purchase a home close to Hutter and Ellen (Greta Schroeder), his spouse. Hutter fights to get out of the castle once Orlok confesses that he is a vampire, knowing that Ellen is in serious danger. Knock (Alexander Granach), Orlok’s attendant, is getting ready for his master to come at his new residence in the meantime. In 1979, Werner Herzog directed his own version of the movie.