Nosferatu’s Popcorn Coffin Is a Lethal Entry in 2024’s Bucket Arms Race

This Christmas, all the cool kids are going to suck. Suck blood, that’s, after they go to see simply the darkest large launch this vacation season, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu. It stars Invoice Skarsgård because the evil Rely Orlok, an immortal vampire whose management over a younger couple (Nicholas Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp) throws an entire city into chaos.

Native theaters could be chaos too due to a promotional tie-in to the movie. Focus Options has revealed it’s teaming with choose theaters (it’s unclear which, particularly, so test your native one) to launch a particular popcorn bucket for the movie. It’s of Rely Orlok’s coffin. You see a glimpse above, see a little video here, and right here’s a greater picture.

Although themed popcorn bucks have lengthy been a factor, the pattern noticed an enormous surge in 2024 with the discharge of the sexually charged bucket for Dune: Part Two. That shined a brand new highlight on subsequent buckets from movies akin to Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, and gave Marvel an excuse to make its personal sexually suggestive bucket for Deadpool and Wolverine. The buckets have continued since, most not too long ago with one for Gladiator II that uses augmented actuality.

This Nosferatu bucket is the place it’s at although. A prop from the film, translated to a popcorn receptacle with a form that may really maintain popcorn. We’re all about it. Plus, with tickets now on sale for the vacation thriller, Focus is having some additional enjoyable too. For instance, sold-out seats on Fandango present up as coffins for the movie. How macabre is that?

The reserved seats for ‘NOSFERATU’ on Fandango are coffins.

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We’ll have extra from Nosferatu within the coming weeks. For now, the place does this rank amongst 2024 popcorn buckets for you? Tell us beneath. Co-starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, and Willem Dafoe, Nosferatu opens on Christmas Day.

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