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Nosferatu is not the name of Bill Skarsgård's character in Robert Eggers' 2024 film, despite what SpongeBob says.

“As soon as I met her, it was clear. She really understood the script. She really understood the character,” writer-director Robert Eggers told Yahoo Entertainment. “Then she auditioned, and it was every bit as powerful as I expected and just as raw and ferocious as you see on the screen. I’m so proud of what she accomplished in this film.”

Everybody knows him. Sometimes it seems like everybody has played him. Bela Lugosi, of course. (“Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.”) Christopher Lee. Klaus Kinski. Gary Oldman. Leslie Nielsen.

The result is not just a fine film. It may be the best cinematic “Dracula” ever made.

Eggers's preference for 'Nosferatu' over 'Dracula' In a chat with Screen Rant, Eggers revealed, "I mean, as much as I love the novel, it is a little bit overstuffed with Victoriana [Victorian period].

The director channels the shadowy aesthetics of German Expressionism in this take on the Dracula story, starring Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe.

His much-anticipated remake of German filmmaker F. W. Murnau's 1922 silent horror classic Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror begins with Ellen Hutter (a phenomenal Lily-Rose Depp) crying out from her childhood bedroom for "a guardian angel, a spirit of comfort...anything."

Eggers’ “Nosferatu” stars Nicholas Hoult (“Juror #2”) as recently married real estate agent Thomas Hutter, who’s given an undesirable task: Travel to Transylvania and sell a property to the mysterious and decrepit Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård),