Understand that Robert Eggers didn’t decide to make an adaptation of the 1922 silent German film “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” on a whim.
In the director’s statement for his “Nosferatu,” which haunts theaters beginning on Christmas Day, Eggers says that in many ways it is “my most personal film.”
The century-old work, directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as the vampiric Count Orlok, is one Eggers has “lived with, within and dreamed about since childhood.” In high school...