Following on from Nosferatu, The Lighthouse, The Northman and The Witch, visionary director Robert Eggers brings us our first look at his newest nightmare, Werwulf.
Shot on 35mm film, with the grain structure of a black-and-white film added onto color film, this is going to be the movie to watch on the biggest screen possible this Christmas.
Do not dread the darkness.
Nosferatu director Eggers signs on for Werwulf and Labyrinth sequel
Embrace it.
Witness Robert Eggers’ most visceral and haunting experience yet.
Focus Features presents WERWULF, a harrowing tale of devotion, damnation and the devil within.
Tidbit:
Robert Eggers confirms that the dialogue in Werwulf is all 1300s Middle English: “We worked with two Oxford professors on the dialogue, which is in Middle English,” he said, adding: “And then we worked with a dialect coach on a way to temper the pronunciation”
Another interesting tidbit, reinforcing the ‘shared world’ or ‘monsterverse’ that Eggers is building, is that in his movie, The Northman, in one scene we see Amleth’s tree of life and, as the camera pans up, we see that one of his ancestors was a wolf:
You can watch the clip HERE.
This means that Amleth (the main character, played by Alexander Skarsgård) has Werewolf/Werwulf ancestry, meaning he’s actually an Úlfheðnar (wolf warrior). This means that, perhaps indirectly, Werwulf and The Northman and, I have no doubt, Eggers’ other movies, are all part of one big, dark universe.
Werwulf, Vampire, Witch… what’s next? Jekyll and Hyde? Creature from the Black Lagoon? Frankenstein?
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Well, we know that his next project is his darker take on A Christmas Carol – adding ghosts to his ‘monsterverse’? – and then he’s still touted to be making the long-in-gestation follow-up to the children’s classic, Labyrinth.
But you can just bet that whatever he does next and beyond will be well worth the wait.
Robert Eggers’ Werwulf is only in theaters this Christmas.
Watch the trailer:
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