Nosferatu– a gothic horror thriller starring Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp – is coming to cinemas. Should you wait until the end credits for more scenes?

A remake of the horror film classic by director FW Murnaus with Max Schreck as Count Orlok, Nosferatu stars Skarsgård as a menacing vampire.

Depp plays Ellen Hutter, a young woman who is the object of Orlok’s obsession, while Nicholas Hoult plays Ellen’s husband Thomas Hutter – a real estate agent who visits the enigmatic count at his castle in Transylvania to help him secure a new estate.

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Screenplay and direction: Robert Eggers, Nosferatu Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Simon McBurney, Ralph Ineson and Willem Dafoe also star.

The film’s logline reads: “Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire who is in love with her and causes indescribable horror.”

In addition to directing the film, Eggers also wrote the screenplay, which is inspired by the original in the credits Nosferatu Screenplay by Henrik Galeen and Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula.

Nosferatu hits theaters nationwide on Christmas Day.

Note: The next section contains a slight spoiler for Nosferatu.

Are there any additional scenes during or after the credits of Nosferatu?

An end credits or post-credits scene for a film generally serves one of two functions: either the additional scene summarizes outstanding questions left unanswered by a scene earlier in the film, or the scene serves as a teaser for a possible sequel.

Therefore, there are no post-credits scenes Nosferatuas the story ends in a straight line with no sign of the story continuing.

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Of course, if Nosferatu is a huge success, the film’s studio, Focus Features, may try to convince filmmaker Robert Eggers to develop an idea for a sequel, but that’s unlikely.

Like the 2024 version of the vampire story, the original 1922 ending Nosferatu was self-contained, as was the film’s only other notable remake, Werner Herzog’s 1979 Nosferatu with Klaus Kinski in the lead role.

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Although Focus Features is a subsidiary of NBC Universal, it’s worth noting that Focus and Universal Studios are two separate film divisions.

Although the studios share the same corporate parent, Count Orlok – also known as Nosferatu – never existed under the Universal Monsters banner, so fans may hold out hope that the character will be included in the studio’s shared dark universe of movie monsters should she ever be revived become .

Rated R, Nosferatu hits cinemas nationwide on Friday.

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