Movie Info
Starring: Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Willem Dafoe, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney
Story: Supernatural gothic horror written and directed by Robert Eggers. Remake of the 1922 movie and an unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. Nosferatu (2024) is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman, Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp), and the terrifying vampire, Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård), infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
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Top Nosferatu Quotes
Ellen Hutter: Come to me. Come to me. A guardian angel. A spirit of comfort. Spirit of any celestial sphere. Anything. Hear my call. Come to me.
Count Orlok: You wakened me from an eternity of darkness. You are not for the living. You are not for human kind. And shall you be one with me ever-eternally? Do you swear it?
Ellen Hutter: I swear.
Knock: [to Thomas] A new husband requires new wages.
Knock: [referring to Ellen] She truly is beautiful. A nonpareil. Almost a sylph.
Knock: I have been entertaining dealings with a foreign count. Very old line of nobility. Very old and eccentric.
Knock: [referring to Orlok] He has one foot in the grave, so to speak.
Ellen Hutter: It was our wedding. Yet not in chapel walls. Above was an impenetrable thundercloud outstretched beyond the hills. The scent of the lilacs was strong in the rain, and when I reached the altar, you weren’t there. Standing before me, all in black, was Death. But I was so happy. So very happy. We exchanged vows, we embraced, and when we turned around, everyone was dead. Father and everyone. The stench of their bodies was horrible. And, but I’d never been so happy as that moment, as I held hands with Death.
Innkeeper: May the holy mind of God bugger you!
Innkeeper’s Mother-in-Law: Beware of his shadow. The shadow covers you in a nightmare. Awake, but a dream. There is no escape.
Count Orlok: Your Lord. I will be addressed as the honor of my blood demands it.
Count Orlok: [to Thomas] I fear we yet keep close many superstitions here that may seem backward to a young man of your high learning.
Ellen Hutter: Do you ever feel at times as if you were not a person? What I wish to say is that you are not truly present nor alive, as if you were at the whim of another, like a doll, and someone or something had the power to breathe life into you, to move you.
Count Orlok: You are fortunate in your love. It’s providence, as Herr Knock would say.
Thomas Hutter: I have been enduring the most irregular dreams. I fear I am taken ill.
Count Orlok: It is a black omen to journey in poor health. You will remain and well rest yourself.
Thomas Hutter: I must object, my lord.
Count Orlok: You will obey this, my counsel.
Count Orlok: [to Ellen] Your husband is lost to you. Dream of me. Only me. Only me.
Knock: His lordship likes the pretty ones best.
Knock: He is infinity. Eyes shining like a jeweled diadem. And then putrescence. Asphyxience. And devourence.
Knock: ‘Twas he that invoked me. ‘Twas I that was chosen to serve him, for I know what he covets. And he shall cast upon you curses, confusion, afflictions, rebukes, for you have forsaken me, and he shall reign over all of your empty corpses. Devourence. Devourence!
Count Orlok: [to Ellen] Soon I will no longer be a shadow to you. Soon our flesh shall embrace and we shall be as one. Nature, increase thy thunders and hasten me upon the wings of thy barbarous winds.
Ellen Hutter: Does evil come from within us or from beyond?