The vampire culture is alive and well in Robert Eggers’ "Nosferatu" remake. The 2024 movie release stars a young woman (Lily-Rose Depp) being stalked by a Transylvanian vampire (Bill Skarsgård) that unleashes all kinds of horror. If you’re curious where the inspiration came from for "The Witch" director to take on the upcoming horror flick, we just found out he was long obsessed with the silent film that was destroyed long ago and survived only through bootlegs.

The 1922 German film "Nosferatu" is an example of a movie to impress pretentious movie fans for its introduction to vampires on the big screen and influencing the horror genre as a whole. Historical horror film director Robert Eggers certainly was sold, as we just found out through his interview with Deadline that he's a huge fan of the early 20th-century film.