The terrifying vintage trailer for Robert Eggers’ Werwulf

A dark and sumptuous first trailer, which sends Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe back to the obscurantism of the Middle Ages.

After the vampiric success of NosferatuAmerican director Robert Eggers continues to explore myths and legends with Werwulf. And its first trailer, unveiled today, already promises one of the most unique horror films of the year.

We see Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe, who reunite with the director just a few months later Nosferatu. True to form, Eggers maintains the mystery and only reveals a few dark and terrifying images of this gothic tale, bathed in a deliberately vintage aesthetic.

The story takes place around the year 1300, at a time when wolves had not yet disappeared from England. Exit the modern clichés of the werewolf: here there will be no question of bites or silver bullets. The film will follow a cursed farmer, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, in search of redemption and salvation through love, while a hunter, played by Willem Dafoe, attempts to end this curse. As always with Eggers, the attention to historical detail is pushed to the extreme. Dialogue and accents were recreated to be faithful to medieval English, while the film was shot on 35mm film with image processing inspired by the grain of old black and white films, giving Werwulf a particularly unique texture, already perceptible in this superb first trailer.

The official synopsis promises nothing less than “Robert Eggers’ most visceral and haunted experience to date“. The film is presented as “a harrowing tale of devotion, damnation and the demon within each of us.”

Suffice it to say that the director seems to remain faithful to the dark and mystical themes that have made his reputation.

The cast of Werwulf is particularly attractive since it will also bring together Lily-Rose Depp, Willem Dafoe and Ralph Ineson, three actors who have already worked with Robert Eggers in the past.

The screenplay is co-written by Robert Eggers and the Icelandic novelist Sjón, with whom the filmmaker had already collaborated on The Northman.

Werwulf will be released in American theaters on December 25, 2026 and January 6, 2027 in France in cinemas.