'Nosferatu' has the best Christmas box office in history for a horror movie

On December 25, theaters were drenched in darkness with the release of the remake of the horror classic, Nosferatufrom the screenwriter and director Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman) and the study Focus Features.

Nosferatu presents a different offering in this season that traditionally has the releases of Christmas projects, for the whole family, dramas that are shaping up for the Oscar, but not much horror film offering.

The audience has responded positively to the arrival of Nosferatuwhich managed to stay in third place at the national box office (United States), raising $21.5 million dollars in the three days of the weekend (December 27, 28, 29) and $40.3 million dollars when considering the five days of Christmas (December 25-29). The film is playing on 2,982 screens.

Nosferatu recorded the highest Christmas Day gross and the highest three-day Christmas weekend gross for a genre film. The previous record of both was held by The Faculty (1998).

This is also the second box office and critical hit for the Focus Features studio in the fall-winter season, after the premiere of Conclave last October.

Although the film was released in the United States on Christmas, In Mexico and the rest of the Latin American market we have to wait for its debut on the big screen on January 1, 2025.

In the remake, Nosferatu/Count Orlock is played by Bill Skarsgårdwho is accompanied by Lily-Rose Depp (The Idol, Silent Night), Nicholas Hoult (The Menu, Renfield), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter, Nocturnal Animals), Emma Corrin (The Crown, My Policeman), Simon McBurney (The Conjuring 2), Ralph Ineson (The Witch, The Northman), y Willem Dafoe (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, The Lighthouse) as Professor Albin Eberthart Von Franz, vampire hunter.

“In the new reinvention, Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman (Lily-Rose Depp) in 19th century Germany and the ancient vampire of Transylvania (Bill Skarsgard) who stalks her, bringing with him unspeakable horror.”

Eggers wrote and directed the remake, as well as producing it alongside Jeff Robinov, John Graham, Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus. Production companies are Maiden Voyage Pictures, Studio 8, Birch Hill Road Entertainment.

With information from Deadline.