Nosferatu director Robert Eggers: ‘We needed to find a way to make the vampire scary again’

The film-maker follows in the eerie footsteps of FW Murnau and Werner Herzog in his new feature, starring Lily-Rose Depp and Nicholas Hoult

Central Bank commemorates ‘Dracula’ with €15 collector coin

Bram Stoker commemorative silver coin unveiled at Glasnevin Cemetery

The Mummy: Story of the world’s most expensive movie poster

An original lithograph of the 1932 classic is set to sell for $1-1.5m, a record-breaking sum

The dirty secrets of Hollywood’s golden age

Karina Longworth’s podcast began as a calling card. It was an overnight success

Actor Martin Landau dies aged 89 of unexpected complications

Landau won an Oscar for his performance as Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton’s Ed Wood in 1994

Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme dies aged 73

The Oscar-winning film-maker also directed acclaimed films Philadelphia, Something Wild and the Talking Heads concert documentary Stop Making Sense

From Bram to Brooklyn: 10 great films adapted from Irish literature

Lenny Abrahamson’s Room and John Crowley’s Brooklyn vie for the best picture Oscar this weekend. They are part of a grand tradition

UTV’s horror show

There will be Vlad: an audience with young Dracula in Antrim

The Northern Irish set of Universal’s latest take on a horror legend seems to hark back more to a place called Westeros than to 15th-century Romania

Review: The Seafarer

Christmas spirits and sympathy for the devil in the Northern Irish premiere of Conor McPherson’s play