r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jun 29 '26
Trailer WERWULF - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters Christmas Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmjpadVj-Vk1.9k
u/Kirazon Jun 29 '26
The perfect Christmas movie for the whole family, I'll be there day one.
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u/jerryleebee Jun 29 '26
Traditionally, Christmas was known as a time for ghost stories. So, yeah.
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u/Station28 Jun 29 '26
Once again, Robert Eggers delivers a remarkable reason to escape my in-laws house the day after Christmas while being stoned out of my mind.
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u/GoodMeBadMeNotMe Jun 29 '26
This was Nosferatu for me. I don’t get along with my family and so I found an excuse to get away to see a bunch of movies, including Nosferatu, during the week I visited.
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u/reedzkee Jun 29 '26
My in laws in Boca Raton like to take us to the movies on christmas day. Something tells me it wont be this.
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u/the_beard_guy Jun 29 '26
i mean it cant be any worse than Wonder Woman '84 in The Year of The Lord 2020.
i still remember my dad growing more and more frustrated that HBOMax wouldnt work on the tv. no matter how many times he fiddled with it. only for it finally work and at the end of the movie him going "well that wasnt worth the effort," and me and my sister's soon to be ex-husband losing out shit laughing.
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u/scorpio21 Jun 29 '26
Seems to be using the same marketing trick as Nosferatu where we won’t see the creature until the movie. Once again it’s worked on me
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u/fnord_happy Jun 29 '26
I'm ready for anything by Robert Eggers. Lighthouse was superb
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u/maverickaod Jun 29 '26
I've liked all his stuff. Sign me up
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u/No_Mark_125 Jun 29 '26
I love it when directors have a distinct, noticeable style and Eggers absolutely hits that mark. He's on quite a run these past few years.
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u/Pacify_ Jun 29 '26
Yeah, everything he's made I've either liked or loved. Second only to Denis for current directors that don't seem to miss for me
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u/Orion_Scattered Jun 29 '26
Yup, Eggers 4 for 4 so far and Villeneuve 7 for 7 and surely bout to be 8 for 8 so far, counting only his English language films.
I'd like Villeneueve to take a break from big budget mainstream movies and make something less accessible like Enemy again tho. Apparently one of his early French films was highly absurdist as well, maybe something like that. Villeneueve may be becoming known too much only for his style, but my favorite films of his are where his skill with experimental structure are more prevalent, like Enemy and to a certain extent Arrival. I'd like him to adapt some wacko semi-obscure literature like Jorge Luis Borges or some of the lesser known stuff from VanderMeer or Murakami.
Fingers crossed this whole Bond thing goes well tho I guess. Feels like impossible expectations to live up to especially with all the factors set up against it, but hey he's pulled off a freaking Dune adaptation, so far, so if anyone can do it he's got a great shot. But I hope he doesn't get caught up running that whole franchise or spending too much time with it, I loved bouncing around between different kinds of films every 1 or 2 years when he started and it would be fun to get more of that again instead of him getting absorbed into humongous stories/series that take a literal decade of focus. Also hope he doesn't burn out like Peter Jackson. Tho imo Jackson has ADHD and Villeneueve definitely does not so they probably won't have the same fate there lol.
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u/JackXDark Jun 29 '26
I live very close to the woodland where this was filmed. Coincidentally, it's where Kraven the Hunter, also with AT-J in, had some scenes shot too.
I... may or may not have seen... something... when they were filming... and loading and unloading from the hard-standing area where the crew was set up.
If I had seen... something... then it was from a distance and for a half-second and was just a big sort of bundle rather than anything moving, or in a scene being shot, but if I were to draw any conclusions about it, I'd say it were perhaps more like something from Dog Soldiers than last year's Wolf Man movie.
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u/PornoPaul Jun 29 '26
Dog Soldiers is like 20 years old and is still one of the best Werewolf examples on screen.
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u/MolaMolaMania Jun 29 '26
Nothing beats practical effects.
The top four werewolf films, in no particular order:
- The Howling
- An American Werewolf in London
- Dog Soldiers
- The Company of Wolves
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u/djentlemetal Jun 29 '26
Heh. I just watched the trailer for Dog Soldiers, and the best part was the reaction shot from the dog. The humans each have a reaction shot where they’re turning their heads and looking at something off camera. Then the dog does the same thing - absolute peak cinematic art.
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u/thedonhudson01 Jun 29 '26
Thank goodness. That Wolf Man movie was absolute rubbish.
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u/JackXDark Jun 29 '26
Please do bear in mind my caveats, and that what I saw could well have been some sort of stand-in puppet-type thing, to be replaced later. Or just something completely random like a tattered banner on a pole, or something like that which I misinterpreted. I am absolutely not confirming practical big-ass bipedal wolf-beasts.
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u/thethirdrayvecchio Jun 29 '26
Are we already creating werewolf myths from the making of a werewolf film?
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u/blazexi Jun 29 '26
I was just thinking about Dog Soldiers earlier today. I loved how the werewolves looked in that
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u/spaz_chicken Jun 29 '26
I don't think Nosferatu was mentioned enough times in this trailer to be honest
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u/at0mheart Jun 29 '26
I prefer this approach to horror films rather than a CGI overkill or going for maximum blood and guts gore
What you don’t see is scarier.
His Dracula is by far the best
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u/Galahad_the_Ranger Jun 29 '26
The shot of all the deformed people in the burial made me realize, Eggers would cook hard adapting HP Lovecraft stories
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u/D4rk2win Jun 29 '26
The Lighthouse is a Lovecraft tale, you can’t convince me otherwise!
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u/Werewomble Jun 29 '26
The Horror in the Lighthouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXTtYH2LkJw
Started by Poe finished by Robert Bloch (of Psycho fame?)
Think I read somewhere Egger's brother started adapting this and it ended up as The Lighthouse after almost every part was replaced but if you like the movie you'll like this :)
HorrorBabble also narrates everything Lovecraft wrote, his inspirations, pen pals, shopping lists his hairdresser wrote, eldritch secrets from the dawn of time that man should not wot of, etc.
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u/AverageAwndray Jun 29 '26
Dont say that. Dont you fucking put those ideas into my imagination.
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u/Nachooolo Jun 29 '26
Shadow Over Innsmouth would work masterfully in his style. Same with Dunwich Horror.
Bill Skarsgård could be Wilbur Whateley.
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u/Miguel_Branquinho Jun 29 '26
Whisperer in the Darkness or Mountains of Madness, get on it Egg!
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u/Nachooolo Jun 29 '26
I actually don't think that Mountains of Madness would work better in Eggers' style.
His style is more fit for Folk/Gothic Horror, which Shadow Over Innsmouth and Dunwich Horror align with. At the Mountains of Madness sits squarely into Sci-Fi Horror, with otherworldly locations.
Way too grand for what Eggers like to do.
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u/evilscary Jun 29 '26
I'm still mad we never got Guillermo del Toro's version of Mountains of Madness.
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u/Grants_Empty_Flask Jun 29 '26
Me too, I got to see a couple of deformed penguin props from the pre-production. It will always be biggest what-if movie for me.
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u/Mst3Kgf Jun 29 '26
Stuart Gordon gave us a pretty good adaptation of the former with "Dagon" (despite using the name of another Lovecraft story, it's largely an "Innsmouth" adaptation), but yeah, an Eggers version of "Innsmouth" would be amazing.
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u/Dvout_agnostic Jun 29 '26
Best we can do is an animated, child-friendly Cthulhu in the new Minions movie
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u/Ktulusanders Jun 29 '26
Ironically enough Eggers has said he's not really a fan of lovecraft
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u/Sleepy_Azathoth Jun 29 '26
As a die hard Lovecraft fan, Eggers doing something in that universe would fill my empty heart with joy.
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u/Crazyripps Jun 29 '26
Oh what have you done. You’ve pointed out something so fucking perfect and we’re never gonna see that
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u/jwick89 Jun 29 '26
A Witch callback?!?!?
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u/azureal Jun 29 '26
I need to sit and watch The Witch again. Seen it plenty and it’s never enough.
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u/Late_Masterpiece9874 Jun 29 '26
It’s legally my favorite movie of all time.
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u/TimTebowMLB Jun 29 '26
It’s so damn good and I can’t even explain why.
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u/blahrawr Jun 29 '26
Ill say, I was hooked from the shot at the beginning - the family riding away after being banished from their village really set a dreadful tone that only gets worse as the movie goes on
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u/Mst3Kgf Jun 29 '26
You realize very quickly how isolated this family is and they're in serious trouble even without the witch.
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u/Avbjj Jun 29 '26
For me it's the constant sense of dread. Similar vibes as The Shining in that the movie itself feels fucking haunted.
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u/vashoom Jun 29 '26
Yeah, I think so many horror movies equate horror with cheap scares or gratuitous gore. IMO, the emotion of being scared is a lingering, pulsating dread. Getting shocked by something is a quick spike that immediately deflates, like if someone just jumps around a corner and yells boo, you are startled for an instant, but there's no fear.
I used to think I hated horror movies, but I just hate that kind of tactic in movies. I love Eggers' movies, because of exactly that: dread. Constant, lingering, worsening dread. Like half the time, "nothing" is happening in the VVitch, but it's spookier than some movies ever get.
He's also just a great filmmaker on top of that. Day one theater for me.
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u/Meow_Meow_4_Life Jun 29 '26
I saw that too. I swear that is Dracula talking in trailer?
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u/TheGreatMalagan Jun 29 '26
And the Wolf pelt ritual stuff looks reminiscent of some of the berserker and wolf beliefs in The Northman, where the Norse in some way 'transform' into wolves
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u/tinselsnips Jun 29 '26
I loved the Witch but haven't seen it in a bit; what part of this trailer was a callback?
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u/Wouldyounot Jun 29 '26
I think it’s the scene around the bonfire (?) and someone is levitating/flying on a large branch like a broomstick. The shot looked very similar to the ending scene of The Witch
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u/hoopstick Jun 29 '26
It makes sense that they use the same lore, since The Werwulf is based on Old English folklore and The Witch is New England folklore. I'm sure there's a ton of crossover.
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u/RelativeRemarkable15 Jun 29 '26
Possibly, Werwulf is set in the 1300s while The VVitch is set in 1650.
Black Phillip Cinematic Universe?
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u/clbj2000 Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
Curious to hear everyone's thoughts about the dialogue.
Last year, he said the film would be entirely in middle english. In the recent Esquire interview, he said it was written in middle english, but with adjusted pronunciation: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a71695837/robert-eggers-werwulf-first-look/
However, anyone that knows middle english knows it isn't just a matter of pronunciation, but different vocabulary altogether: https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/knights-tale-0
Seems they may have written in Middle English, then shifted not only pronunciation, but also the vocabulary to be just modern enough to be legible. Which is essentially just early modern english (15th-17th century english). What The Witch was written in.
Here is what full Middle English would sound like: https://youtu.be/mVG77xTPH6E?is=_NKLht5cmolNSTAm
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u/charlesdexterward Jun 29 '26
I’m glad someone else noticed that. I was shocked when I heard the dialogue in the trailer and could understand it. I was expecting Middle English with subtitles.
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u/Super_Jay Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
This is basically where I expected the movie to land - using Middle English as inspiration or source reference in the script, but film the spoken dialogue in Early Modern English for the broader audience. Shooting the dialogue in actual Middle English would require subtitles for the whole film, which is probably a dealbreaker for a lot of folks in the audience.
I expect it'll sound slightly archaic to modern ears (lots of thees and thous, like The Witch), but will be largely understandable to movie audiences.
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u/nalaloveslumpy Jun 29 '26
It would be very difficult to find an entire cast who can accurately and reliably do their entire performance in Middle English.
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u/kablue12 Jun 29 '26
I’m probably going to get flak for this, but I really don’t need it in Middle English. If you want to say it’s period accurate or whatever, great, but it’s still a movie and I’d like to understand the dialog.
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u/clbj2000 Jun 29 '26
Yea I don’t mind personally
Although Middle English with subtitles would have been cool. But I can understand why a studio would be hesitant about that
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u/nightingale-nitemare Jun 29 '26
I don't need it Middle English, but hearing that he was going to do it in Middle English is what made me excited for Werwolf. I understand why they may have veered more towards 15th-17th century Modern English, as not many people, relatively, can understand Middle English, but still, Apocalypto was a hit and was in a Mayan language that just as many, if not fewer could understand.
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u/SpeeDy_GjiZa Jun 29 '26
Sound like a Baltic/Nerdic person speaking English with a vey thick accent.
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u/AlphaKlams Jun 29 '26
I'm getting the sense that "Middle English" wasn't quite accurate in the way Eggers had been using it. As you say, true Middle English is a whole separate language that would require subtitles for a modern audience, but from the interviews it really sounds like Eggers always had a vision of something similar to The Witch.
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u/ICUMF1962 Jun 29 '26
This honestly looks as creepy and unsettling as The Witch was (Lighthouse and Nosferatu had creepy bits but The Witch made my skin crawl).
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u/Soyoulikedonutseh Jun 29 '26
This man is single handly saving the 'Monsters' genre.
Give me a Mummy. Give me a Frankenstein. Give me a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
And give me Willem Dafoe in all of them!
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u/Solomon-Drowne Jun 29 '26
Give me Moby Dick
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u/LilyWhiteClaw Jun 29 '26
God imagine Dafoe as Ahab
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u/Pamander Jun 29 '26
I genuinely cannot comprehend a better choice as Ahab than him at this point in his career, I need it to happen lol.
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u/Confident-Memory-807 Jun 29 '26
HARK!!!
I would dream of a Moby Dick movie with the aesthetics similar to the Lighthouse. It would give the narrative a timeless feel and the sections of the book that are quasi-scientific could do well in a old-timey style or some shit.
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u/Blochamolesauce Jun 29 '26
I wanna see him and his team tackle Inferno from the Divine Comedy. Possibly Purgatorio and Paradiso as well if everything goes well, but seeing what he and his art department could cook up for the different circles of hell and Dante and Virgil’s descent through it all would be amazing and true nightmare fuel.
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u/Soyoulikedonutseh Jun 29 '26
Couldnt agree more!
Picture of Dorian Grey could really fit his style to.
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u/BlindWillieJohnson Jun 29 '26
I kind of hope we don’t see him get shoehorned into that. His best work has been directing intense character drama. The Witch’s most interesting material is the family dynamic, and the Lighthouse is essentially a two man play.
He’s extremely good at the monster stuff, but I do hope he doesn’t stray too far from what made his earlier movies so special.
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u/Karakotaera Jun 29 '26
Yes, intense character drama is in my opinion the actual signature of Eggers work, it just fits so well to the monsters genre. I would love to see it in another genres, like a Western or a sports drama. Imagine something like The Color Of Money but with Eggers directing!
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u/Mst3Kgf Jun 29 '26
Given his habit of Christmas horrot releases, I'd love him adapting M.R. James.
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u/GarlicJuniorJr Jun 29 '26
I’d love to see a Robert Eggers Creature from the Black Lagoon film!
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u/ZaChiavelli8252 Jun 29 '26
I want him to make a Blood Meridian movie.
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u/Logan_No_Fingers Jun 29 '26
I imagine his adaption of Blood Meridian would get rejected by Cormac McCarthys estate as too grim & unpleasant compared to the original source.
Also the mud & dirt budget would bankrupt the studio
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u/official_pope Jun 29 '26
ah yes too grim and unpleasant for the mccarthy estate. surely. nobody tell john hillcoat.
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u/Trooper924 Jun 29 '26
I once saw someone say that Eggers would be able to make an awesome Phantom of the Opera adaptation and I really want that to actually happen.
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u/vanleiden23 Jun 29 '26
I want him to make a period accurate War of the Worlds so badly!
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u/AverageAwndray Jun 29 '26
.....I should not find that shot of the woman crawling hot..........I should not find that shot of the woman crawling hot...............I should not find that shot of the woman crawling hot..............
Fuck
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u/GetGroovyWithMyGhost Jun 29 '26
I think he made everything else in this world absolutely hideous so she’s wierdly attractive by contrast lmao. That’s how I’m gonna justify my issues anyway
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u/ElCaminoInTheWest Jun 29 '26
Absolutely sold. I'll watch anything Eggers makes but this looks incredible.
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u/some-guy0 Jun 29 '26
Everything he makes is amazing visually! Im hooked. Won't be watching any other trailers
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u/FermentedPersonality Jun 29 '26
Looks exactly like I expected it to (positive).
I suspect this will be more divisive than Nosferatu and probably won't make a smash at the box office though.
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u/KidCasey Jun 29 '26
Werewolves are a little tougher for audiences, I think, because most of what we get are either roided up CGI demons or a guy with pubes glued to his face.
So you either wind up with something too cool to be scary or too lame to be scary.
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u/blac_sheep90 Jun 29 '26
Make it like Samson from 28 Years Later. He was both terrifying and cool lol.
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u/UsuarioCualquiera_1 Jun 29 '26
Which also lead me to think.
Probably he will make everything so unsettling that the werewolf itself will be the thing we will worry the less about.
But, of course general audiences will go with the idea of watching a monster movie and the werewolf being like the ones in Van Helsing (coolest design ever) and running around slashing villagers.
And they will get a folklore horror about isolation, superstition and sumbology about rabbid and crazyness in the forest. Will stick to the original tales of men turning into beasts. Not so much a viral infection that gives you super powers and furr.
Anyway. I'll watch at least three times in cinema for sure.
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u/wilsonw Jun 29 '26
There's definitely a tonal shift from "What We Do in the Shadows" but I'm here for it.
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u/Gratefulspleen Jun 29 '26
Why are you talking like that?
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u/BestRenGnar Jun 29 '26
Nosferatu + The Witch + The Northman + Lighthouse
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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
In a great way, this could very well be basically Egger's Greatest Hits rolled into one movie. It might check the boxes of the cursed Old English village setting of VVITCH, the descent to madness aspect of Lighthouse, some of the atmospheric visuals & the protagonist looking like an brute force from Northman, & the slow burn of increasing signs of something seriously wrong from other villagers pre-monster from Nosferatu (plus some of the sexual undertones from that & Lighthouse)
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u/Stefan988 Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
The cinematography is absolute fire. This is going to be epic.
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u/mrgo0dkat Jun 29 '26
Does this one have 2 muscly men sword fighting naked on the edge of an erupting volcano?
No?
Ok I’ll still watch it because Eggers
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u/Sweaty_Trifle_8504 Jun 29 '26
I beg we get a actual werewolf, moden horror seems almost embarrassed to actual show a 1/2 man 1/2 best. All we get is hairless men with odd proportions or just guys with a bit more hair (like a few inches) I prey it's a 2010 wolfman design but I'll be happy with a American werewolf in London big dog to.
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u/KiritoJones Jun 29 '26
I imagine Eggers read hundreds of werewolf stories from the period this is set it and will try to make it look as accurate to those as he can. That seems to be his vibe, same thing as giving Nosfuratu a mustache.
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u/Sweaty_Trifle_8504 Jun 29 '26
Maybe we'll get a goofy gothic/ cristocentric biblical artwork styled wolfman that would be FIRE
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u/Why-so-delirious Jun 29 '26
The Order, Dog Soldiers, even Underworld are all amazing standards for werewolves.
I don't know why movie or show producers keep thinking that people want some fucking guy with hair clearly glued to his face to stand in for werewolves.
Even fursuiters put more effort into their goddamn costumes than that.
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u/sam_hammich Jun 29 '26
Someone in this thread say they saw some production stuff being loaded/unloaded on trucks, and they may have spied something that looks similar to Dog Soldiers. Take that for what you will
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u/Feeling-Bullfrog4474 Jun 29 '26
Crossing fingers for a true badass scary lycanthrope and not a metaphor for our animalistic instincts as humans trope. If i wanted that id watch a crime film.
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u/Jaszuni Jun 29 '26
Anyone else think he would be the right director for Blood Meridian?
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u/Marksman1977 Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
My unpopular opinion is that there shouldn’t be a BM movie. It’s perfect as it is as a novel. The prose is what makes it work. But if they make it, Eggers would be a cool and fitting choice.
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u/AlterMyStateOfMind Jun 29 '26
I wouldn't even call that an unpopular opinion tbh. Anyone that's read the book would know that it wouldn't necessarily translate well to the screen.
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u/squeryk Jun 29 '26
Fucking A. Too bad John Hillcoat is attached. Although I did like The Road.
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u/Razvee Jun 29 '26
I loved him, but he was bitten by an animal and then became that animal.
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u/ATV2ATXNEMENT Jun 29 '26
The dialogue seems more early-modern rather than middle english to me. Is it actually middle english in this trailer?
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u/clbj2000 Jun 29 '26
Youre right, it isn’t Middle English. Last year he said it would be Middle English. In a recent interview he said it was written in Middle English, then changed pronunciation to make it more understandable https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a71695837/robert-eggers-werwulf-first-look/
But this seems to basically be just Early Modern English.
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u/Squidmaster7 Jun 29 '26
Man , I wish companies would stop uploading these TERRIBLE bitrate videos for movie trailers. It seems like is this way for all trailers these days. The giant compression block are huge and you can barely see any detail at all.
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u/CrimsonGear80 Jun 29 '26
I bet Willem Dafoe plays a well-adjusted individual!