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Fresh off Nosferatu being nominated for four Academy Awards, Bloody Disgusting is excited to announce that visionary director Robert Eggers has hand-selected eight movies that influenced his gothic-horror hit feature for Conjuring Nosferatu: Robert Eggers Presents, an upcoming series from Film at Lincoln Center that’s being presented this February.

Presented from February 5 through February 9, the program kicks off with a special 35mm screening of Nosferatu, joined by eight films selected by Eggers as companion pieces.

“I am honored to share this collection of films that inspired my adaptation of Nosferatu,” Eggers said in a statement. “It’s a world of Gothic Romance, fairy tales, and folklore, made by filmmakers with a passion to transport the audience to another time, another place, and another way of thinking and believing.”

Eggers continues, “From the overwhelmingly atmospheric work of David Lean or Thorold Dickinson’s Queen of Spades that utilize massive set...

Robert Eggers is taking the concept of a bloody Valentine quite literally for an upcoming program at New York City’s Film at Lincoln Center. The auteur has curated a nine-film lineup for “Conjuring ‘Nosferatu’: Robert Eggers Presents,” which will take place February 5 through 9. Eggers has selected a series of films to screen, all of which influenced his latest Gothic horror film, “Nosferatu,” which will have a special 35mm screening as part of the series.

“I am honored to share this collection of films that inspired my adaptation of ‘Nosferatu,’” Eggers said in a press statement. “It’s a world of Gothic romance, fairy tales, and folklore, made by filmmakers with a passion to transport the audience to another time, another place, and another way of thinking and believing.”

Eggers picked a slew of 20th century international features, including iconic films like Jean Cocteau’s 1946 version of “Beauty and the Beast...

Movie adaptations from classic books have been a feature of the film industry pretty much since the beginning (George Du Maurier's Trilby, for example, was adapted in 1896) but never have their posters properly recognized the source material.

At least, according to Reddit user Shystone who has adapted the posters of famous movie adaptations to change the titles back to those of the original books. It's an impressive feat of skilled Photoshopping... but we can't help but feel that Die Hard is just a better title.

Check them out below and let us know which Shystone missed in the comments!

(h/t Buzzfeed)...