Thomas is able to escape, though he is weak, and returns to ellen. The creative team behind nosferatu opened up to us weekly about that awkward prosthetic penis scene and how involved bill skarsgard was in creating count orlok’s look Robert eggers' gothic horror movie nosferatu is dropping in blood and dread, but 10 moments in particular stood out as the most shocking.
Nosferatu BTS Video Reveals What Bill Skarsgård’s Count Orlok
Eggers is using sex and death as a metaphor for our fears, and the scenes of a naked count orlok terrorizing the living and the undead emphasize the film’s body horror.
When thomas opens orlok’s coffin and attempts to kill him unsuspectingly, he fails, and the count rises from his coffin with a ghastly scream whilst exposing his naked and decrepit corpse of a body.
