Writer-director Robert Eggers of Lee, NH, is having success with "Nosferatu" horror film. It started with a book at school in Lee and a VHS tape.

Death and desire collide with seductive, shivering power in Robert Eggers ’ “ Nosferatu ,” a grandly Gothic reinterpretation of F.W. Murnau’s silent-film classic that channels the dark, psychosexual energies at the core of vampire mythology into a haunting tale of obsession.

Robert Eggers' 'Nosferatu' will screen in 35mm at Film at Lincoln Center as part of the "Conjuring 'Nosferatu': Robert Eggers Presents" program.

Robert Eggers and Lily-Rose Depp on the set of Nosferatu. Photo: Aidan Monaghan/Focus Features And yet it has already become Eggers’s most financially successful movie, making $135 million globally and becoming a plausible contender in Oscar categories that seldom make room for horror.

The anglophile American film director discusses his ultra-gothic, jumpscare-filled reworking of the ultimate vampire movie

The latest adaptation of the silent film classic evokes anxieties at once eternal and contemporary, using one of horror’s ur-texts to dissect race, sex, and power.

Robert Eggers' Nosferatu remake has become one of the highest-grossing horror movies of 2024. See how much the Lily-Rose Depp movie has made so far.

Robert Eggers' 2024 remake of Nosferatu officially surpasses $155M at the global box office, exceeding another 2024 horror film, Smile 2.

It’s not hyperbole to suggest that Robert Eggers has spent decades thinking about Nosferatu. In elementary school in New Hampshire, the filmmaker saw a picture of Max Schreck as Count Orlok in F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror and “lost my mind.

Werner Herzog 's version is less enamored with his powers and more interested in his melancholic spiritual plight, making his Dracula ( Klaus Kinski) arguably the most vulnerable version. This is where Eggers' version is superior,

Nosferatu ‘s streaming release date on Peacock has not yet been announced, but we know that Nosferatu will stream on Peacock eventually because it is a Universal movie, and Peacock is the streaming service owned by Universal. All the new Universal theatrical movies end up streaming on Peacock, though the wait period has varied by title.

If you as a viewer were in recent times enthralled by Robert Eggers’ adaptation of a new and contemporary take on the gothic film – Nosferatu, a film that has been around for years and years, here are five must-watch films that carry a similar gothic charm.