Robert Eggers‘ recently opened up about a moment that he had to cut from the end of Nosferatu, revealing the situation was too “demented” to keep in the film.

What did Robert Eggers have to cut from Nosferatu?

Speaking to Variety on the adaptation that’s out in theaters now, Eggers opened up about the film’s ending, which takes a major deviation from the original film. Instead of being burned by the sun, the film ends with Lily Rose-Depp‘s Ellen Hutter and Count Orlok locked in an embrace.

According to Eggers, Orlok can be seen bleeding from various orifices in the film, but one “demented” thing they initially did was have him bleed from his anus. However, Eggers said the decision looked too “comical” after a while, and they had to literally plug it up.

“Well, if you look very closely at that shot, Orlok is still bleeding out of his eyes, ears and nose,” said Eggers. “There are some maggot holes in his back. We also rigged it so that he would be bleeding out of his anus, but it was very comical. When we started rolling, we had to literally put a cork in it.”

Nosferatu is a remake of the 1922 film of the same name, which itself is an unauthorized and unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s legendary 1897 novel Dracula. The film is written and directed by Eggers, who previously made 2015’s The Witch, 2019’s The Lighthouse, and 2022’s The Northman.

Along with Skarsgård, the film stars Nicholas Hoult as Thomas Hutter, Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Friedrich Harding, Emma Corrin as Hanna Harding, Willem Dafoe as Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz, Simon McBurney as Herr Knock, Ralph Ineson as Dr. Wilhelm Sievers.

“Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake,” the synopsis for the movie reads.

(Source: Variety)