Werwulf Trailer

He’s built his reputation with horrors about external horrors – The Witch, The Lighthouse, and Nosferatu – now, Robert Eggers returns with what’s being billed as his most visceral and haunting work yet: a story centred on the devil within. The trailer bares its fangs, grabbing attention immediately with almost alien period-accurate Middle English dialogue, grainy orthochromatic cinematography that evokes the look of early cinema, and near-unrecognisable transformations from its cast. Every element entirely sells Eggers’ uniquely immersive nightmare vision, though tantalisingly, the film’s most startling transformation is being saved for the full experience. Following her unforgettable performance as a woman escaping the grip of a vampiric presence, Lily-Rose Depp finds herself threatened by an entirely different kind of beast. The film follows a mute medieval peasant, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who is burdened by a terrible curse. Forced to join a hunting party led by Willem Dafoe’s enigmatic and ruthless character, he must conceal a horrifying truth: the creature they’re pursuing lies within him. The hunt begins in cinemas New Year’s Day.