WERWULF

Robert Eggers Heads Into Werewolf Country

WERWULF takes Robert Eggers' historical horror into the English countryside around the year 1300. Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays a cursed farmer struggling with an affliction inside him while trying to find salvation through his wife, played by Lily-Rose Depp. The film treats the werewolf myth as muddy, physical body horror rather than a polished monster spectacle.

The Characters Have No Names

Eggers uses an old-fable approach in which none of the characters receives a proper name. Taylor-Johnson is simply credited as "Man," keeping the story closer to an archetype passed down through centuries than a modern biography. The trailer shows ritual, caves, and an isolated rural world while withholding the creature's full transformation.

The Nosferatu Circle Reassembles

Taylor-Johnson, Depp, and Willem Dafoe reunite after Nosferatu, with Dafoe playing a weathered hunter tracking the beast. Ralph Ineson returns to Eggers' orbit after The Witch. Behind the camera, Eggers co-wrote the script with Sjon, his collaborator on The Northman, and again works with cinematographer Jarin Blaschke.

Horror Takes Christmas Day Again

Focus Features opens WERWULF in theaters on December 25, 2026, repeating the holiday slot used for Nosferatu. Eggers has called it "the darkest thing I've ever written by far," an apt warning for a film built around curse, flesh, and medieval dread.