Writer-director Robert Eggers of Lee, NH, is having success with "Nosferatu" horror film. It started with a book at school in Lee and a VHS tape.

Robert Eggers' 'Nosferatu' will screen in 35mm at Film at Lincoln Center as part of the "Conjuring 'Nosferatu': Robert Eggers Presents" program.

Robert Eggers and Lily-Rose Depp on the set of Nosferatu. Photo: Aidan Monaghan/Focus Features And yet it has already become Eggers’s most financially successful movie, making $135 million globally and becoming a plausible contender in Oscar categories that seldom make room for horror.

D irector Robert Eggers broke out a decade ago, and in his short career, has delivered a string of technically brilliant, thematically challenging, and meticulously crafted genre

It is a relief that acclaimed director Robert Eggers wants to make an original movie and not another adaptation after the success of Nosferatu.

The anglophile American film director discusses his ultra-gothic, jumpscare-filled reworking of the ultimate vampire movie

Death and desire collide with seductive, shivering power in Robert Eggers ’ “ Nosferatu ,” a grandly Gothic reinterpretation of F.W. Murnau’s silent-film classic that channels the dark, psychosexual energies at the core of vampire mythology into a haunting tale of obsession.

The latest adaptation of the silent film classic evokes anxieties at once eternal and contemporary, using one of horror’s ur-texts to dissect race, sex, and power.

Nosferatu has hit a $138.6 million worldwide cume, helping Robert Eggers' career total global box office to unlock this milestone.

Nosferatu has been a big hit, both commercially and critically. From a $50million budget, it has so far grossed around $138million, making it Eggers’ most financially successful film to date. Turns out Columbus’ decision to trust Eggers wholeheartedly was the right call to make.

Werner Herzog 's version is less enamored with his powers and more interested in his melancholic spiritual plight, making his Dracula ( Klaus Kinski) arguably the most vulnerable version. This is where Eggers' version is superior,

Nosferatu” writer-director Robert Eggers discusses his work with Bill Skarsgård and his approach to reimagining the horror film classic.