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The only way that Robert Eggers’ remake of “Nosferatu” could compete with the terrifying images found in F.W.

Their touchstones are silent auteurs and surrealists: F.W.

“It’s probably the one set where we wanted to have a bit of the F.W. Murnau film. We had a nice beach but didn’t have the dunes. Luckily, there was a sandpit that wasn’t too far from the lake. I brought in seven or eight giant dumpsters filled with sand, and we sculpted the dunes and the green. We had grasses and all of that, and we had a nice big bit of beach in front of it to do some of the action.”

While the original 1922 silent movie by F.W.

Though a “Nosferatu” veteran — he portrayed Orlok actor Max Schreck in “Shadow of the Vampire,” the 2000 film about the making of F.W.