NOSFERATU: Terrifying New Shots Of Bill Skarsgård As Count Orlok Have Leaked Online

NOSFERATU: Terrifying New Shots Of Bill Skarsgård As Count Orlok Have Leaked Online

Nosferatu is now playing in theaters worldwide, and some new shots of an unrecognizable Bill Skarsgård as the evil vampire Count Orlok have leaked online...

By MarkCassidy - Jan 02, 2025 10:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Movies

Nosferatu has been playing in US theaters since Christmas Day, but only opened in other major markets on January 1. As a result, we're only now beginning to see more leaked screenshots find their way online.

Thanks to several social media posts, we have our best look yet at Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok, and the IT star really is unrecognizable as the ancient vampire.

This new take on the character has proven to be divisive, but director Robert Eggers had a good reason for changing up the classic creature design for something that more closely resembled an "undead nobleman."

The filmmaker revealed his thought process behind the vampire's look during a recent interview with Deadline.

“What would a dead Transylvanian nobleman actually look like? That was basically where I started from, and I wanted to still acknowledge Max Schreck’s makeup design.”

As for Skarsgård, while he would ultimately get used to the design, he was far from convinced upon first seeing the prosthetics he'd be required to wear.

“Bill sees the sculpt of the bust and he freaks out, and he’s like, ‘That doesn’t look anything like me, this guy didn’t look like me when he was even alive,'" recalls Eggers. "'What the f*ck?’ He wasn’t mean, but he was alarmed. And I was like, ‘Well, that’s the point, that you’re totally transforming into somebody else.’ And then, he’s putting the makeup on and he’s like, ‘Ugh, I look like a goblin. This is terrible.’ And then, once they put the hair on, even though the makeup wasn’t totally finished, I saw the first moment when he was like, ‘OK, this is cool. This is a person.’ I started to see him in the mirror, playing around, trying to do something."

Check out the images at the links below.

3 shots of the same moment from 1922, 1979, 2024
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A new take on F. W. Murnau's 1922 version and Werner Herzog's take in 1979, Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

Written for the screen and directed by Robert Eggers, Nosferatu stars Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney and Willem Dafoe.

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