‘Nosferatu’ Cinematographer Breaks Down the Count Orlok Encounter Sequence and Shooting on Film
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor If watching “Nosferatu” makes you feel uneasy and uncomfortable, that’s exactly what filmmaker Robert Eggers had in mind.
Eggers and cinematographer Jarin Blaschke played with the idea of confusion in this gothic horror retelling of F. W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic.
This time, Bill Skarsgård plays the fearsome Count Orlok who torments Lily-Rose Depp’s Ellen, a young woman who becomes the object of his desire.
Speaking with Variety‘s Inside the Frame, Blaschke explains, “We’ll set up something pretty ordinary, a medium shot, but we’re gonna still pull the carpet from under you, and it’s all carefully thought out.” One example is when Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) travels to Transylvania to meet Count Orlok and have him sign the deed to a castle in Germany. “Being disoriented and having the camera lead you, and you’re never really sure what you’re going to look at next is an important aspect of this film,” Blaschke says.
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