Count Orlok gets a freaky new look in Nosferatu and filmmaker Robert Eggers and star Bill Skarsgård have now broken down the horror icon's new look, including that controversial mustache. Check it

Seven years after becoming a top horror star as Pennywise in "It," Bill Skarsgård is back on the big screen playing the original movie monster, Count Orlok, in Robert Eggers' remake of the vampire classic "Nosferatu.

Fans of gothic horror are abuzz with questions after the chilling conclusion of Robert Eggers’ reimagined classic Nosferatu. This haunting tale follows a young woman and the vampire who becomes dangerously mesmerized by her.

Like most Nosferatu stories, Orlok is represented in Eggers’ film as more of a horror than a hunk; he also represents a sort of forbidden desire for Ellen. “To have the attraction to this figure… I think he was probably a beautiful man at some point, but now he’s covered in maggots,” the director said. “That’s interesting to me.”

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Bill Skarsgård's iteration of Count Orlok in Robert Eggers' Nosferatu looks different in a few ways from the original Count.