Lily-Rose Depp stars as a newlywed who is haunted by a vampire. “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.

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.

Which is to say, you probably recognize the story of Eggers' Nosferatu: the mysterious Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård) wants to buy a house in the fictional German port town of Wisborg, so newly hired agent Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) is sent by his boss Knock (Simon McBurney) to close the deal.