Nosferatu director explains why it is historically accurate for Bill Skarsgård's version of Count Orlok to have a mustache in Nosferatu.

As you know, Willem Dafoe has a fun connection to Nosferatu , dating back to his amazingly fun portrayal of Max Schreck in the 2000 dark comedy Shadow of the Vampire . The film is a fictionalized take on the making of F.

Like most Nosferatu stories, Orlok is represented in Eggers’ film as more of a horror than a hunk; he also represents a sort of forbidden desire for Ellen. “To have the attraction to this figure… I think he was probably a beautiful man at some point, but now he’s covered in maggots,” the director said. “That’s interesting to me.”