Director Robert Eggers acknowledged that many young people — whether millennials or members of Gen Z — may recognize the vampire Nosferatu not from the 1922 film but because of a children’s cartoon. On the red carpet at the Los Angeles premiere of his Nosferatu remake, the director was asked by The Hollywood Reporter if he knew that the iconic character appeared in the animated show Spongebob Squarepants.
He said he was aware of that Nosferatu was featured in the children’s show. The vampire famously appeared in the season 2 episode, “Graveyard Shift,” where Spongebob works overnight for the first time and is scared by spooky happenings at the Krusty Krab, including the flickering of the lights. It turns out that the vampire is the culprit.
While that may have been the introduction to the character for many young people, Eggers said on the red carpet that he came to know of Nosferatu through a show called Muppet Babies, which he said “would play little clips of Lon Chaney’s Phantom of the Opera and early versions of Cyrano de Bergerac.” Eggers continued: “That weird cartoon gave me exposure to a lot of movies that I watched when I was a little older, with memories from Muppet Babies. So, thanks SpongeBob.”
The vampire made multiple appearances in the series, and the show even introduced a younger version, Kidferatu.
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One of the movie’s stars, Nicholas Hoult, was also asked about the character’s appearance in Spongebob Squarepants. He was less familiar with the reference, adding that he appreciated that it had introduced new viewers to it. “I’ve got to go back and watch more SpongeBob,” he said. “Hopefully, this will be a reintroduction to it in a different way.”
The remake features Bill Skarsgård in the titular role, Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter, Hoult as Thomas Hutter, Willem Dafoe as Prof. Albin Eberhart von Franz, Emma Corin as Anna Harding and Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Friedrich Harding.
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