To create the dreadful world of Nosferatu, production designer Craig Lathrop designed and built some 60 sets in Prague, many of them based on real places in Germany and Transylvania.

The exterior castle is connected to a real-world figure who's vital to vampire history, while the interior castle has a much more direct link to a previous version of Nosferatu, that being Werner ...

Constructing Orlok’s castle, with its crypt, tower room, hallways, corridors, and great hall, brought out the 13-year-old in Lathrop.

Castles, beaches, derelict towns and coffins: All in a day’s work on ‘Nosferatu’ set (Craig Lathrop/Focus Features) By Gregory Ellwood Feb. 7, 2025 3 AM PT ...

Lathrop couldn’t use the interiors of Corvin Castle because, like every other one he had seen, it too had been refurbished. Instead, he had to build everything on a soundstage, including Orlok ...

Finally, his highly unsettling and largely entertaining “Nosferatu” arrives, inspired by both the silent film and its source material, “Dracula,” the 1897 novel by Bram Stoker.

When it came to building Count Orlok’s castle, Lathrop traveled to the Czech Republic to look at castles. But each one he came across was “beautifully whitewashed, prim and ready for tourists.” ...