Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Rats in Nosferatu
Briefly

"When working with a big group, they all of a sudden lose their intelligence in the anonymity of the crowd and are very hard to coordinate and motivate."
"It really makes the experience from seeing the film feel more real and immersive. Sometimes, they just behave naturally and don't do what's expected of them, but that can also be an upside."
"In some more populated shots, CG scans of living, breathing rats helped fill the background."
"But when there's just, like, thousands of rats squirming around, they become a little harder to direct."
Read at Vulture
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