This film is both horrifying and comical. The make up used on the vampire is amazing.
Even after almost nine decades, F. W.
I just wouldn't be making my own stuff if it wasn't for this film and I doubt I am alone in that as it's influence is still strong all these years later. A stunning work of visual art, so glad it wasn't actually destroyed when they tried.
It seems that the popular theme in Hollywood be it in film or television is the lure of the vampire. With shows like "True Blood" and the cult teen film like "Twilight" the obsession with vampires is growing.
Bram Stokers "Dracula" (1897) has many film adaptations. Only a few of them are classics.
Nosferatu: A Symphony Of Horror is a 1922 silent german expressionist horror film directed by F.W.
Anybody familiar with Stoker's "Dracula" (from which this film is blatantly lifted) already knows the story. Hutter (aka Harker) travels to Transylvania at his employer's request in order to finalize the sale of an estate to Count Orlok (aka Count Dracula).
Nosferatu (1922)First time watch one, This is the oldest movie that I have seen now, I have been putting this off a few times as I have never seen Silent movie in full before and I not to keen on Vamps movie. Yesterday I did try to watch this in early morning before work but I could not get into for some reason , I did turn it off about 20 minutes into the movie.
This is a film which really deserves the reputation it has achieved over the years.The earliest adaptation of the Dracula story to still survive, this movie has such power that lots of the conventions and characteristics of vampires accepted today were actually set up this film and not from the novel which spawned it, the aversion to sunlight being one.