Are the Rats Real in 'Nosferatu'? Emma Corrin Shares Video Covered In Them!

Rats galore! There are so many rats featured in the new movie Nosferatu and yes, they are real!

Over 5,000 live rats were used in the making of the movie and none of them were harmed.

“If there are rats in the foreground, they’re real, and then they thin out and become CG rats in the background. And they were well-trained,” director Robert Eggers said (via Variety).

Production designer Craig Lathrop added, “The rats. None of them were lost. We found all of them. They were all there. We built these plexiglass barriers so that the live rats would be in a controlled area. In the scene on the street, the horses are on one side of the plexiglass barrier, and the rats are on the other, so that the rats wouldn’t run underneath their feet and get squashed, so nobody would get hurt.”

Emma Corrin, who stars in the movie and is covered in rats at one point, shared a video from behind-the-scenes.

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“Happy Nosferatu Day ????,” Emma wrote on Instagram with the below video.

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