The only surprise today with Nosferatu's four Oscar nominations is that four of the six nominees have somehow never been nominated before. Though if you ask the nominees, every film they've worked on together is just a way to hone their skills for the next project.

To anyone who saw Nosferatu (or the earlier news that Eggers was in talks on a Labyrinth project), that maybe isn’t the biggest possible surprise — all the blood, perverse mon