Nosferatu director teases Bill Skarsgård’s "scary, smelly" Count Orlok, says he goes in the "complete opposite direction" of Twilight’s Edward Cullen

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Nosferatu director Robert Eggers teases Bill Skarsgard’s Count Orlok and says the movie makes vampires scary again.

“Weve gone all the way to Edward Cullen, where vampires are not scary.

So how do we go in the complete opposite direction of that?

Eggers tellsTotal Film in our final issueout on Thursday, October 10, which featuresGladiator 2on the cover.

Skarsgards vampire count, however, is nothing like Edward Cullen.

you might see him in our exclusive picture below.

Depp plays his wife Ellen.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Willem Dafoe, Ralph Ineson, and Simon McBurney all also star.

Nosferatu is released on December 25 in the US and on January 1 in the UK.