William Fischer is an author at Collider. Born and raised in Nebraska, he latched onto moviemaking at a young age and has been chasing it ever since. William holds a BFA in film from the University of ...

‘Nosferatu,’ starring Lily-Rose Depp, pays tribute to the occultism of the original 1922 film, which is filled with esoteric themes and has an unusual story behind its creation. Robert Eggers’ ...

Willem Dafoe has a history with Nosferatu. Long before appearing in Robert Eggers’ reimagining of the German Expressionist classic, the Oscar-nominated actor starred in a film about the making of the ...

Back in 1922, German Expressionist filmmaker F. W. Murnau wanted to make his own horror picture based on Bram Stoker's Dracula. Because Dracula was copywritten material, Murnau and company were forced ...

Robert Eggers' gothic horror Nosferatu adapts the story by F. W. Murnau with some imaginative reinventions. One variation of the tale integrates a character known as Van Helsing, but in the movie, he ...

The film’s success helped to ­establish the career of director FW Murnau, who later went to Hollywood and made the silent classic Sunrise, one of the first Oscar winners. But Nosferatu also bears the ...

Summoned to a bloodthirsty vampire's faraway castle, a young land clerk embarks on a harrowing journey into the unknown as his innocent wife falls under the spell of a terrifying shadow in her dreams.