'Nosferatu' Cast Spills on This Climactic Love Scene (Spoilers!)

Spoiler alert! We discuss major plot points and the ending of Nosferatu (now in theaters), so be careful if you haven’t seen it yet.

The climax of Nosferatu is unlike any love scene you’ve ever seen before: a marriage of death, blood and sacrifice with clear emotion and a touching final shot.

Oh, right, plus a naked vampire corpse.

Director Robert Eggers’ remake of the original 1922 horror classic centers on Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp), a 19th-century German wife who desperately searched for a connection in her youth and falls in love with the extremely undead Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård) got engaged. She has nightly dreams about him, he longs to be with her, and Orlok sets out from Transylvania – rats and the plague with him – to pursue his obsession.

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What happens at the end of the new “Nosferatu”?

As Ellen’s husband Thomas (Nicholas Hoult) leads the effort to find and kill Orlok, Ellen lures the vampire into her bedroom and welcomes him in a white dress and a wedding-like veil. “You accept this of your own free will?” he asks. “I do,” she replies before he towers over her and their lips finally touch.

“I want people to ask, ‘Is he going to bite her face off?’ And then it turns into a kiss,” says Skarsgård. “Nosferatu” is “a very heightened fairy tale/dark story, but also about two people who may fall in love.” It’s not love, it’s something else, but love may be the closest thing to it comes and with which you can somehow identify. If it is not love, it is a desire and an appetite and a lust and a desire to devour.”

“Death and the Maiden” is a popular motif in art history, says Eggers, and “when you see Lily-Rose like a doll and Bill like a skull with a mustache, it’s a stark contrast.” Depp adds that she There was both “real sensuality and real desire” between Ellen and Orlok, “which makes the scenes all the more captivating and scary.” This young woman is repulsed by him and petrified and horrified, but at the same time there is a longing.”

To fulfill the “oath” of being together, they undress, lie in bed and he sucks blood from her chest. But she holds him there as the sun rises, dooming him: As light shines through the window, Orlok lifts his head, Ellen smiles, and she holds his head tenderly as, in his final moments, blood ghastly pours from his eyes and flows from his mouth. Then Thomas shows up and she too succumbs after spending one last moment with her husband.

How does the finale of the 2024 film differ from the original “Nosferatu”?

The film ends with an overhead shot of Ellen holding the skeletal Orlok in a naked embrace, a change from the original Nosferatu: In the 1922 film, Orlok crouches over Ellen and drinks her blood, both fully clothed, and he disappears therein smoke in the sunlight.

The final scene of the remake is “heartbreaking in a way and kind of bittersweet because she does a good deed and breaks the curse, but she also gives in to a dark desire that she has,” says Depp. “We wanted all of these things to be tangible and feel real.”

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‘Nosferatu’ Cast Spills on This Climactic Love Scene (Spoilers!)

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