Where was Nosferatu filmed? Here's where Robert Eggers found the perfect spooky castle - plus plot and cast

It’s divided both critics and audiences somewhat, but there’s no doubt that it looks beautiful.

A number of locations were used to evoke deepest, darkest Transylvania and 19th century Germany.

Here’s where the location scouts took the crew, and a little more about the film.

What is the plot of Nosferatu?

It’s pretty much identical to Dracula, but set in the German town of Wisborg, instead of London.

Set in the 1800s, a young married man called Thomas accepts a commission to sell a decrepid mansion to a mysterious member of the Transylvanian aristocracy who just happens to be a vampire - Count Orlok. Summoned overseas by Orlok himself, he sees some pretty disturbing stuff as completes the sale, narrowly escaping with his life after falling ill and essentially becoming Orlok’s prisoner. While he’s recovering at a nearby church, Orlok mesmerises Thomas’ wife Ellen using a stolen locket of her hair and heads to Germany on a plague-infested boat whose crew and passengers he feeds upon. Orlok’s plague starts to ravage Wisborg, but can the returning Thomas stop him by teaming up with Ellen’s doctor and his mentor - the occult-obsessed Albin Eberhart Von Franz?

What is the cast of Nosferatu?

The film has an all-star cast, as follows:

• Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter
• Nicholas Hoult as Thomas Hutter
• Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok/Nosferatu
• Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Friedrich Harding
• Willem Dafoe as Prof. Albin Eberhart Von Franz
• Emma Corrin as Anna Harding
• Ralph Ineson as Dr. Wilhelm Sievers
• Simon McBurney

Where was Nosferatu filmed?

The movie had a number of filming locations, of which these were the most important.

Corvin Castle, Hunedoara, Romania

This picturesque Romanian castle doubles as Count Orlok's castle in Nosferatu and needed little in the way of special effects. One of the largest castles in Europe, it was built in the 15th century and is one of featured as one of ‘the Seven Wonders of Romania’. It’s currently the subject of a large restoration project and attracts around 300,000 visitors each year.

Pernštejn Castle, Czech Republic

Also used in the original 1922 Nosferzatu film, Pernštejn Castle was used for the courtyard scenes of the new film.

A castle has been at the site since the 13th century, but the current building was finished in the first half of the 16th century by the Pernštejns, then the richest and most powerful lordly family of the Bohemian kingdom.

Rozmitál Castle, Czech Republic

The last castle used in the filming was Rozmitál Castle, in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It was originally built in the Gothic style in the 13th century and rebuilt in the Renaisance style in 16th-century. It is protected as a cultural monument and is managed by group of volunteers.

Barrandov Studios in Prague

Much of the fictional town of Wisborg was built at a film studio in Prague, allowing Eggers to build exactly what he wanted, rather than use an existing town.

Prachov Rocks, Czech Republic

When Thomas is travelling to Orlok’s castle he walks through rocky mountains - the filmmakers used the striking rock formations of Prachov Rocks for these scenes.

A number of smaller sequences in the film were shot in the Invalidovna Complex - a structure built as dormitories of war veterans in the 1730s.