There will be a chill in the air this Christmas, and it will have nothing to do with the weather.

Focus Features released a trailer for its upcoming remake (more or less) of the 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu, and though the title character’s face was not revealed, enough of him is shown to induce more than a few shivers. Focus also announced that the film would be in theaters December 25th.

An odd choice for a holiday movie, sure, but the creepy cold atmosphere that permeates the footage in the trailer is perhaps fitting for a film debuting in the coldest and darkest part of the calendar year. Nosferatu 2024 was written and directed by Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman).

The film, which is considered a “contemporary take” on the 102-year-old-film’s story, “is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake,”according to the movie’s official description.

Alexander Skarsgård plays Count Orlok, the vampire (aka Nosferatu) and Lily-Rose Depp plays Ellen Hutter, the object of the creature’s desire, at least in the trailer. Also starring are Willem Dafoe as Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz, Nicholas Hoult as Thomas Hutter, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Friedrich Harding and Emma Corrin as Anna Harding. Simon McBurney also appears as Herr Knock and Ralph Ineson appears as Dr. Wilhelm Sievers.

Dafoe and Hoult are no strangers to vampire movies; Dafoe played Max Schreck, star of the original Nosferatu in Shadow of the Vampire, a fictional account of the making of the movie, and Hoult played the title role in 2023’s Renfield.

The original Nosferatu is considered to be the first film in the vampire horror genre. An earlier stylistic remake of the original, Nosferatu the Vampyre, directed by Werner Herzog, was released 1979.