CinemaCon today got a first look at Focus Features’ second film with Robert Eggers, Nosferatu, a dark and gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her which causes untold horror in its wake.
Introducing the footage, Focus Chairman Peter Kujawski said, “This ain’t your father’s Nosferatu” and promised it will give “new meaning to the term Christmas feast when we open on December 25.”
In the footage, we see the terror and hysteria rampant in the village as various townsfolk shriek, “He is coming” after the young woman calls to him seemingly in a nighttime trance. “My dreams grow darker,” she says and asks Willem Dafoe’s Professor Von Franz, “Does evil come from within us, or from beyond?”
Written and directed by Eggers, Nosferatu stars Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney and Dafoe.
Eggers produced Nosferatu alongside Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus (Maiden Voyage), Jeff Robinov, and John Graham. Columbus was the EP on Eggers’ films The Witch and The Lighthouse.
Focus previously co-financed and released Eggers’ Viking epic The Northman with New Regency which grossed $70 million worldwide. Universal International is handling overseas distribution on Nosferatu.
Kujawski also showed off trailers from three of the specialty label’s other anticipated upcoming titles: Back to Black, the Amy Winehouse biopic from Sam Taylor-Johnson; Edward Berger’s papal thriller Conclave and Jeff Nichols’ Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy-starrer The Bikeriders, which Kujawski called a “bad ass crime epic.”