Nosferatu viewers slam vampire horror for 'romanticising rape' and claim Lily-Rose Depp's character 'couldn't consent' - but the actress herself insists she 'isn't a victim'
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By POPPY ATKINSON GIBSON. Published: 16:29, 17 January 2025 | Updated: 16:43, 17 January 2025. View comments. Lily-Rose Depp's new horror film Nosferatu has sparked an extraordinary war of words over a controversial sex scene. The gory movie is a re-telling Bram Stoker's Dracula set in a remote German town in 1838 - and follows Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) a beautiful but mentally fragile new wife of devoted but naive Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult), an estate agent employed by Herr Knock (Simon McBurney).
![[Count Orlock has developed a psychic connection with Thomas Hutter's wife Ellen (pictured) that stretches back to her adolescence when she inadvertently pledged herself to him]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/17/11/94207041-14295893-image-m-6_1737113694403.jpg)
Herr Knock sends Thomas to Transylvania to meet Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgard) and supposedly finalise a property deal but it transpires that the demonic being has in fact invited him there to kill him. The vampiric count has in fact developed a psychic connection with Thomas's wife Ellen that stretches back all the way to her adolescence when she inadvertently pledges herself to him for all eternity.
![[Plague, death and even fire rage until Ellen relents and allows herself to be devoured by Nosferatu, saving her husband (pictured, played by Nicholas Hoult) who has been hunting him down]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/17/11/94207045-14295893-image-m-7_1737113700797.jpg)
Cinema-goers have taken to X to express their shock at the scenes while some on Reddit have argued that the film is 'triggering' for survivors of sexual assault. One Reddit user wrote: 'Definitely a gray area for SA [sexual assault] triggers. Vampires have always been big on SA metaphors, and this movie plays into that quite a bit'.'.
![[Ellen's body is taken over by Nosferatu who provides both pain and pleasure in the form of terrifying and electrifying orgasmic nightmares]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/17/11/94207037-14295893-image-m-8_1737113705925.jpg)
Another confessed that they found it very distressing to watch commenting on a threat: 'If SA is a trigger, I'd avoid it. I found it extremely distressing, not so much for the rape on screen, but for a scene between Ellen and Thomas that reads heavily as hypersexual self-harm via sex.
![[As the film progresses and the Count gets closer and closer to his prize, Ellen's nightmares increase and she is drugged and restrained to stop her writhing and moaning in pleasure in her sleep]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/17/11/94207221-14295893-As_the_film_progresses_and_the_Count_gets_closer_and_closer_to_h-m-15_1737114238607.jpg)
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