Because that film's imagery has become so iconic in the horror genre, Eggers told us that he was nervous approaching some of the story's set pieces because he wanted to do them justice. He was particularly concerned with two third act,

He gave the willies to German audiences in 1922 when he manifested himself in filmmaker F.W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror,” and set the template for all succeeding takes on the monster created by novelist Bram Stoker.