Robert Eggers is reteaming with Focus Features for his next film 'Werwulf,' a werewolf horror feature that he co-wrote.

In recent weeks, the vampire movie Nosferatu shined with success while the werewolf film Wolf Man crashed and burned. Now, the director of the former will get his own chance to take a crack at finding new success with werewolf movies on the big screen.

Robert Eggers' next movie will take him to 13th-century England and feature a werewolf instead of a vampire. Should we welcome back the Dark Universe?

Robert Eggers is reteaming with Focus Features after the phenomenal success of Nosferatu becoming the studio’s second highest grossing movie stateside with $90.5M behind Downton Abbey, and that is with the new genre movie Werwulf.

Thanks to Nosferatu 's success, Eggers' career box office has passed the $150 million milestone domestically, and the $260 million mark worldwide. Nosferatu accounts for roughly half this global figure.

Eggers, whose Nosferatu has grossed nearly $156 million worldwide after debuting in last year’s not-usually-macabre Christmas window, will reportedly follow up his vampire redux with another straight-faced horror movie: Werewulf,