One of the most anticipated horror films coming this winter is Robert Eggers’ remake of Nosferatu. Yes, they have remade F. W. Murnau’s 1922 silent film classic before, back in 1979. But the idea of the director of The Witch and The Lighthouse giving the world his take on the landmark Gothic film? That has horror fans baring their fangs (in a good way). And like every anticipated film these days, there’s a collector’s popcorn bucket to go with it. Focus Features designed the Nosferatu popcorn bucket to look like Count Orlock’s ornate coffin. You can check out a preview of what it looks like right here:
This is the kind of popcorn bucket that can easily double as the coolest-ever candy container when Halloween rolls around next year. The official synopsis for Nosferatu describes it as “A Gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.” Yeah, that sounds pretty in line with the original as well as with Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which F. W. Murnau illegally copied back in 1922. It was so illegal, in fact, that Stoker’s widow ordered all copies of the copyright-infringing film destroyed. Luckily for the world, one survived. Those undead are hard to kill, ya’ll.
Playing Count Orlock in Nosferatu is Bill Skarsgård, no stranger to wearing sharp teeth on film after playing Pennywise. The rest of Robert Eggers’ very impressive cast for Nosferatu features Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, and Willem Dafoe. Willem Dafoe, interestingly enough, played a version of Nosferatu in the 2000 cult film Shadow of the Vampire, which earned him an Oscar nomination. It’s a hard movie to track down these days for unknown reasons, but very worth watching. Nosferatu hits theaters on Christmas Day, and tickets are already on sale.