Nosferatu

◉ Start: Romandie 25.12.2024 / Tessin 01.01.2025 / Deutschschweiz 02.01.2025

◉ About: Robert Eggers, writer and director of The Witch, The Lighthouse and The Northman, brings NOSFERATU – THE UNDEAD, a terrifying gothic reinterpretation of a classic to cinemas. Real estate agent Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) travels to Transylvania for a fateful meeting with Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård), a potential client – ​​and vampire. Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp), his young bride, leaves Hutter in the care of her friends Friedrich and Anna Harding (Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Emma Corrin) while he is away. Plagued by visions and a growing sense of dread, Ellen encounters a force beyond her control.

◉ Filming: Principal photography began in the Czech Republic on February 20, 2023, with filming taking place at Barrandov Studios in Prague by March. Later that month, the crew was shooting on location at the 14th-century Rožmitál pod Třemšínem Castle in Rožmitál pod Třemšínem, Pernštejn Castle and Prague’s Invalidovna complex, a Baroque building registered as a national landmark. Some exterior shots were captured in Corvin Castle in Romania. Filming wrapped on May 19, 2023.

◉ Music: The score is provided by British-Irish film composer and music producer Robin Carolan. On Nosferatu, he intentionally moved away from the typical horror score, focusing on capturing the story’s melancholic and tragic elements. He also credited his obsessive listening to Sky Ferreira’s 2019 single “Downhill Lullaby” for putting him “in a certain mood” for some of Ellen’s scenes. With “Goodbye” and “Increase thy Thunders”, the first two pieces of music from the film were released by Back Lot Music in late September 2024. The full soundtrack album with a total of 43 pieces of music is scheduled to be released on vinyl and two CDs by Sacred Bones Records and Waxwork Records.