Bill Skarsgård Is a Monstrous Vampire Terrorizing Lily-Rose Depp in Chilling New “Nosferatu” Trailer

'Nosferatu' scares its way into theaters everywhere on Dec. 25

It's almost time for Nosferatu.

On Monday, Sept. 30, Focus Features released a new trailer for filmmaker Robert Eggers' upcoming movie Nosferatu, giving a glimpse at Bill Skarsgård's look as the vampire at the heart of its story.

"You've had these spells since childhood. Tell me what you can, from the beginning," Willem Dafoe's character tells Lily-Rose Depp's, Ellen Hutter, before she recounts her horrific memories.

"It is like a dream. It was our wedding. When we turned around ... everyone was dead," Ellen says. "The stench of their bodies was horrible. Standing before me was ... death."

"But I'd never been so happy," she adds chillingly.

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The movie "is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake," according to an official synopsis.

Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson and Simon McBurney also star in the new movie, which is a remake of the 1922 German silent film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror.

A previous teaser for the movie released in June teased Depp's character Ellen as she is haunted by the vampire, while characters portrayed by Dafoe, 69, and Hoult, 34, seek the monster — also known as Count Orlok — out.

Both this movie and the original Nosferatu are based on author Bram Stoker's classic 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula.

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Filmmaker Eggers, who is also known for The Witch (2015), The Lighthouse (2019) and The Northman (2021), has been striving to adapt Nosferatu for years.

In a recent conversation between Eggers, 41, and Skarsgård for AnOther magazine, the 34-year-old actor admitted he has never "been more terrified of a role and probably won’t be again."

"The whole journey was so intense. Once you start channelling something that’s not you, you feel like a vessel," Skarsgård said of his performance in that interview. "And you can go entire movies where that doesn’t happen at all or it happens in moments, but that’s always what you’re striving towards."

Nosferatu is in theaters everywhere Dec. 25.

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