Nosferatu’s Robert Eggers wants to make movie adaptation of this legendarily spooky story

It's been adapted for the screen several times before, though we'd love to see Eggers' take on the horror classic.

Ahead of the film's release, JOE sat down with the filmmaker and his stars Emma Corrin, Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe to discuss the new adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

And given Nosferatu's literary origins, we couldn't help but ask Eggers if there was another classic horror story he would ever like to adapt.

In response, he named a legendarily spooky tale from Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher. That said, he did cite a potential problem in trying to bring it to the screen.

The short story recounts the terrible events that befall the last remaining members of the once-illustrious Usher clan and has been adapted for the screen several times.

The most notable versions are the 1960 movie from director Roger Corman starring Vincent Price and the recent Netflix eight-part series from creator Mike Flanagan.

While Flanagan's 2023 version of the tale makes Eggers' comments surprising, it is worth noting that the Nosferatu director previously adapted Poe for the screen, having made a short film of his iconic story The Tell-Tale Heart.

Eggers' told JOE: "I've always wanted to do The Fall of the House of Usher.

"But the problem with Poe is that because of his belief [that] short stories are the best way to tell horror, you always end up having to pad it out to make a feature film and it doesn't quite work.

"So I think the Roger Corman movies in their imperfection are kind of the most satisfying."

In terms of Eggers' adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, JOE has been full of praise for it, writing in our review:

Nosferatu is out in cinemas now.

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