“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. “Then she auditioned, and it was every bit as powerful as I expected and just as raw and ferocious as you see on the screen. I’m so proud of what she accomplished in this film.”

Nosferatu” writer-director Robert Eggers discusses his work with Bill Skarsgård and his approach to reimagining the horror film classic.

His much-anticipated remake of German filmmaker F. W. Murnau's 1922 silent horror classic Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror begins with Ellen Hutter (a phenomenal Lily-Rose Depp) crying out from her childhood bedroom for "a guardian angel, a spirit of comfort...anything."

As a lifelong Dracula fan fascinated by the way death and sexual desire define vampire mythos, Eggers knew that he wanted his Nosferatu to be as erotic as it was haunting. But Eggers also wanted his Nosferatu to feel like a decidedly feminist, macabre romance, which is why he took some inspiration from Emily Brontë.

From the iconic and controversial 1922 silent film that was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula to a 1970s remake by Werner Herzog to a meta-horror flick about the making of one of the best horror movies of all time, here are three versions of the Nosferatu story I think you should watch.

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.

Vampire film Nosferatu from writer/director Robert Eggers, with Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Willem Dafoe, Bill Skarsgård, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Emma Corrin, oozes passion.

Lily-Rose Depp was given homework before playing Ellen Hutter in Nosferatu, a horror film following Depp's character as she is haunted by the disturbing vampiric monster Count Orl