What’s the worst job imaginable? Slaughterhouse worker, World Trade Center window washer, or Facebook fact-checker might come to mind, but that onerous burden really falls on Thomas Hutter, the real estate agent tasked with selling a castle to a vampire in Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu, a haunting remake of the century-old silent classic Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror.

The plot hews closely to the original. Nicholas Hoult (who previously dabbled in vampire movies with the comedy Renfield, though Nosferatu is about as far from Renfield as Barbie is) plays Hutter, an ambitious real estate agent eager to score a big commission by selling a castle to the enigmatic Count Orlok. Shortly after Hutter embarks on his journey, his boss, Knock (Simon McBurney), abruptly closes his practice and becomes a devout follower of Count Orlok, a manifestation of evil with an insatiable infatuation for Hutter’s bride. What follows is a tale of foreboding and terror that unfolds in true Gothic fashion, with Eggers’s distinctive touch.