Daniel Day-Lewis as Count Dracula ... Dafoe has already played Nosferatu in 2000's "Shadow of the Vampire." He could've pulled off Orlok masterfully, but it wouldn't have been anything new.

The lanky bloodsucker known as Count Orlok had previously been played by ... ("Nosferatu the Vampyre"), and Willem Dafoe in 2000 ("Shadow of the Vampire"). Each performance brought something ...

But for Robert Eggers' long-gestating Nosferatu, the buzz online quickly became all about Count Orlok's facial hair, ...

primarily feeling like there is a dark shadow hanging over him, even in daytime when Orlok is usually asleep. Hutter eventually sees the Count's sleeping chamber in a crypt, and based on a book he ...