Warning: contains major spoilers for all of Robert Eggers’ movies and discussion of sexual violence.
Debuting nearly a decade ago to a wildfire of critical and commercial success for 2015’s The Witch, Robert Eggers is frequently touted as a front-runner in the debate over modern horror’s best director. Known for his stunning visuals and heavy emphasis on creative elements in the vein of folklore, mythology, and symbolism, Eggers’ quartet of acclaimed movies have marked the director as a name to rival the likes of Jordan Peele, Ari Aster, or Mike Flanagan over the span of the last decade.
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While Eggers is well known for scenes that prove his credentials as a modern horror master, the director’s willingness to push the boundaries of what is acceptable to show onscreen means that he also has a reputation for producing some of the genre’s most shocking scenes. From horrifically realistic depictions of graphic subject matter to terrifyingly brutal instances of supernatural phenomena, Eggers’ ability to produce a masterful and visually arresting horror movie while shaking his audience to their core highlights his inimitable talent as a filmmaker.
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Winslow And Wake’s Scuffle
The Lighthouse (2019)
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The Lighthouse
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The Lighthouse is a psychological thriller directed by Robert Eggers. Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson star as Thomas Wake and Ephraim Winslow, two lighthouse keepers who begin to experience strange and supernatural phenomena after they get stranded on a remote island in the 1890s.
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Release Date
October 18, 2019
Runtime
110 minutes
Cast
Robert Pattinson
, Willem Dafoe
, Valeriia Karaman
Director
Robert Eggers
Writers
Robert Eggers
, Max Eggers
Studio(s)
A24
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A24
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2019’s The Lighthouse is the type of movie that makes viewers question their own sanity, a state of affairs that is never better exemplified than in the sequence depicting Winslow and Wake’s final showdown for the upper hand at the titular structure. Desperately wrestling the older lighthouse keeper after a bitter argument turns violent, Robert Pattinson’s charge sees Willem Dafoe’s counterpart take on a variety of different appearances.
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Changing in near hallucinogenic fashion to match the scene’s trippy aura, Wake takes on the form of the real Ephraim Winslow and a mermaid before rounding matters off by transforming into a terrifying sea monster complete with barnacles and writhing tentacles. Aided by Dafoe’s maniacal cackles and roars, it’s an unforgettably shocking moment, symbolizing the final shift in the power dynamic between the pair. The iconic sequence’s memorability is even compounded by one of Willem Dafoe’s best movie deaths following afterward in short order.
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The Berserker Raid
The Northman (2022)
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The Northman
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Robert Eggers’ The Northman adapts the ancient legend of Amleth, the basis for Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. When a young Viking prince (Alexander Skarsgård) witnesses his uncle (Claes Bang) murdering his father (Ethan Hawke), he flees and swears revenge. Returning after years of honing his skills as a warrior, Amleth hunts his uncle in a bloody and brutal tale of revenge and retribution, hoping to rescue his mother (Nicole Kidman).
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April 22, 2022
Runtime
136 minutes
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Claes Bang
, Ian Gerard Whyte
, Nicole Kidman
, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson
, Kate Dickie
, Olwen Fouéré
, Katie Pattinson
, Ethan Hawke
, Gustav Lindh
, Willem Dafoe
, Doa Barney
, Ralph Ineson
, Ian Whyte
, Björk
, Alexander Skarsgard
, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson
, Anya Taylor-Joy
, Murray McArthur
Director
Robert Eggers
Writers
Robert Eggers
Studio(s)
Universal Pictures
Distributor(s)
Universal Pictures
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Highlighting the savage nature of Viking existence in unflinching clarity, The Northman features one of the most harrowing and graphic raid sequences ever brought to life onscreen. Following the murder of his father, Alexander Skarsgård’s Amleth grows up to become a berserker warrior in a band of Vikings, participating in the barbarities perpetrated against a Rus village in the early goings of the 2022 epic action movie.
Despite under performing at the box office, The Northman holds a 90% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Skarsgård’s charge lays about the village with the ferocity of an enraged silverback gorilla, literally ripping one of his unfortunate opponents’ throat out with his teeth. However, he’s positively well-behaved in contrast to the rest of his raiding party. The desolating scene’s most shocking aspect is the manner in which Eggers depicts the horrors historically associated with these encounters. Screaming women are raped while the young and the elderly are mercilessly slaughtered, culminating with the horrifying visual of the Vikings herding a group of such survivors into a barn and setting the structure ablaze.
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Anna Is Gnawed By Rats
Nosferatu (2024)
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Nosferatu
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Nosferatu is a remake of the 1922 silent film of the same name from director F. W. Murnau. Robert Eggers is crafting his own version of the story for the reboot as writer and director, with Bill Skarsgård stepping into the shoes of Count Orlok. Nosferatu tells the tale of a young woman who falls victim to a vampire utterly infatuated with her.
Release Date
December 25, 2024
Runtime
132 Minutes
Cast
Bill Skarsgard
, Lily-Rose Depp
, Nicholas Hoult
, Ralph Ineson
, Willem Dafoe
, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
, Emma Corrin
, Simon McBurney
, Paul Maynard
, Stacy Thunes
Director
Robert Eggers
Main Genre
Horror
Writers
Robert Eggers
Studio(s)
Regency Enterprises
, 1492 Pictures
Distributor(s)
Focus Features
, Universal Pictures
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Based on Bram Stoker’s character, Lucy Westenra, Emma Corrin’s Anna Harding meets a similarly tragic fate as her Dracula-based counterpart when Orlok murders the young woman and her children. However, one of Nosferatu’s most shocking scenes sees Ellen Hutter’s close friend and confidante come face-to-face with the evil pursuing Lily-Rose Depp’s character in macabre fashion for the first time, culminating in one of Eggers’ most disquieting onscreen moments to date.
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Thomas Hutter |
Jonathan Harker |
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Ellen Hutter |
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Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz |
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Friedrich Harding |
Arthur Holmwood |
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Anna Harding |
Lucy Westenra |
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Wilhelm Sievers |
John Seward |
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Herr Knock |
Renfield |
After Anna kindly offers to share the bed with her to ease her nighttime unrest, Ellen awakes to find her stricken friend splayed across the floor of her bedroom. Hammering the nail into the coffin in horrifying fashion, Corrin’s charge is being chewed on by a host of plague rats brought over by Orlok’s ship, producing an unforgettably macabre sight that has likely haunted more than a few viewers’ nightmares.
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Orlok Murders The Harding Children
Nosferatu (2024)
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Being chewed on by ravenous rats constitutes a notably shocking scene in and of itself. However, Anna Harding’s introduction to Count Orlok’s evil powers pales in comparison to his murderous retribution after he witnesses Ellen having sex with Thomas through their psychic connection. Placing Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Friedrich in a deep slumber, Bill Skarsgård’s vengeful charge proceeds to brutally murder his young children in the purported safety of their own bedroom.
Orlok ruthlessly murders the girls, draining their blood before tossing their empty bodies aside like a pair of rag dolls.
While the audience only sees the act via shadows against the bedroom wall, the silhouette proves to be more than enough for one of recent horror’s most appalling moments. Orlok ruthlessly murders the girls, draining their blood before tossing their empty bodies aside like a pair of rag dolls. Highlighting that the Count is perfectly willing to commit heinous acts like murdering children just to send a message, this shocking moment underlines the character’s irredeemably wicked nature in bold strokes.
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Caleb’s Speech
The Witch (2015)
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The Witch
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Distributed by A24, The Witch marks the feature directorial debut of Robert Eggers and the first film appearance of Anya Taylor-Joy. Written by Eggers, The Witch follows a puritanical family in New England in the 1630s who are forced to leave their community after a religious dispute. Attempting to set up a farm in the New England countryside, the family soon find themselves beset by malevolent and supernatural forces beyond their comprehension.
Release Date
February 19, 2016
Runtime
92minutes
Cast
Kate Dickie
, Wahab Chaudhry
, Ellie Grainger
, Ralph Ineson
, Sarah Stephens
, Lucas Dawson
, Anya Taylor-Joy
, Bathsheba Garnett
, Harvey Scrimshaw
, Julian Richings
Director
Robert Eggers
Writers
Robert Eggers
Studio(s)
A24
Distributor(s)
A24
, Universal Pictures
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Grossing more than $40 million worldwide against a budget of $4 million and earning a 91% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it’s safe to say that Robert Eggers arrived with a bang when he made his feature film directorial debut with 2015’s folk horror movie The Witch. The picture swiftly established the shock factor that the director was capable of levying, with the dying monologue turned in by child actor Harvey Scrimshaw’s Caleb after being cursed by the witch serving as a first-rate example of this status quo.
Violently convulsing and roaring in agony that seems all too real, Scrimshaw turns in a performance that belies his young years, a horrifically mesmerizing bow that invariably leaves audiences with white knuckles and bated breath. Jarringly, Caleb’s passionate proclamation of his love for Christ before quietly dying is almost as disturbing as his screams of pain. Viewers are left unsure whether the young boy was afforded the mercy of a peaceful death, or whether his insidious killer managed to torment him to his very last second, rounding off one of Eggers’ most traumatic onscreen set pieces.
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Winslow’s End
The Lighthouse (2019)
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One of the more unforgettable movies in modern cinematic history, it stood to reason that The Lighthouse would save its most shocking sequence for last. Finally ascending the titular building after dispatching Willem Dafoe’s Wake, Ephraim Winslow is confronted with the mind-bending truth of what lies behind the light at the structure’s summit, howling in agony before brutally tumbling backwards down the stairs.
Despite receiving critical acclaim, The Lighthouse received just one Oscar nomination, losing out to 1917 for Best Cinematography at the 92nd Academy Awards.
The nature of what Winslow saw is never actually revealed to the audience, but it’s unlikely to be anything good based on where we next find Robert Pattinson’s charge. Eggers concludes what is contentiously his magnum opus with a shocking finale of jaw-dropping proportions and a brutal end for Pattinson in his best movie to date. The camera pans to reveal a broken and dying Winslow lying fully nude against the coastal rocks, barely clinging to life as a flock of seagulls agonizingly peck at his exposed internal organs.
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Amleth’s “Horse”
The Northman (2022)
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In terms of shocking cinematic moments, the twisted brand of psychological warfare that Amleth levies against Fjölnir and his estate offers up several notable examples in The Northman. Numbers like gatecrashing a human sacrifice to leave a corpse dangling from the ceiling or spiking rations with enough hallucinogenic mushrooms to make Fjölnir’s unfortunate guards lose their minds constitute worthy candidates, but Amleth’s first sadistic act of retribution serves as one of Eggers’ most visually shocking conceptions.
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The Northman (2022) |
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Nosferatu (2024) |
7.6 |
Ambushing several of Thorir’s friends in the dead of night, the vengeful warrior brutally murders the young nobles, arranging their mutilated bodies in a grotesque caricature of a horse and impaling the bloody remains on a wall for all to see. It’s a truly jarring spectacle, one so gruesome that the camera never fully centers on the men’s dismembered corpses. Highlighting the appalling extent Amleth is willing to go in order to carry out his revenge, this is undoubtedly one of the director’s most horrifying creations.
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Ellen’s Most Extreme Possession
Nosferatu (2024)
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Lily-Rose Depp turns in a magnificent bow in her first major blockbuster role as Ellen Hutter in Nosferatu, producing what is contentiously the single best performance in a Robert Eggers movie with her haunting take on Count Orlok’s prey. While narrowing down a highlight from this award-worthy performance is a task in and of itself, the obvious candidate is the unforgettable scene depicting Ellen in the throes of her most intense supernatural seizure yet, courtesy of the sequence’s sheer jaw-dropping shock factor.
Frequent Eggers collaborator Anya Taylor-Joy was originally linked to the role of Ellen Hutter before the part eventually went to Lily-Rose Depp.
Captures a harrowingly authentic snapshot of possession in her latest demonic episode as Orlok draws closer, Depp produces what can only be described as bestial cinema; ripping at her clothes in unashamedly feral fashion while her eyes roll back in her head. As Ellen spasms uncontrollably from what appears to be both pain and pleasure alternately, Nicholas Hoult’s Thomas Hutter can do nothing but watch in horror as this visual nightmare unfolds before him.
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Sam’s Death
The Witch (2015)
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It took Robert Eggers just over seven minutes of The Witch to produce one of the most shocking scenes in his entire career. While the unforgettable sequence depicting baby Sam’s sudden abduction by a witch from beneath the very nose of Anya Taylor-Joy’s Thomasin is now virtually synonymous with this criminally underrated psychological horror movie, the haunting moments that follow the infant’s ghastly kidnapping are where things get really, traumatically, shocking.
Literally quivering in anticipation as she runs her hands over Sam, the witch’s hands are barely illuminated by the dim light of her lair before her gnarled fingers clutching a knife come into view. However, Eggers is only just beginning with his attempts to give his audience nightmares. The crone’s abhorrent silhouette can be seen mashing something brutally in a wooden churn, before smearing a red substance all over her body. When the audience put two and two together to realize Sam’s fate, it’s enough to send them to therapy.
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Ellen Sacrifices Herself
Nosferatu (2024)
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Rounding off Nosferatu with a bang, Eggers saved his most shocking scene for the end of his most recent movie. The sequence in question sees Ellen Hutter heroically sacrifice her life to put an end to Orlok’s evil, willingly inviting the monster into her bed to feed on her long enough for the sun to rise and destroy him. Flexing all the muscles that got him to the dance while setting a new bar for jarring imagery, Nosferatu’s ending is Eggers at his best and most shocking.
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Whipping the rug out from beneath Bill Skarsgård’s villain in deliciously satisfying fashion just when she appeared to be finally submitting to his will, Ellen’s demise is one of Eggers’ most horrifically captivating sequences. Watching the nightmarish form of Orlok draped over Lily-Rose Depp’s charge as he feeds on her is harrowing imagery, but so stunningly shot that the audience find themselves utterly captivated nonetheless. The most shocking scene in Robert Eggers’ movies to date ends with the unforgettable visual of the Count’s skeletal remains, lying atop Ellen’s blood-stained body in the most morbid embrace conceivable.
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