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Sep 28, 1997 · Roger Ebert. September 28, 1997. 6 min read. To watch F.W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu” (1922) is to seethe vampire movie before it had really seen itself. Here is the story of Dracula before it was buried alive in clichés, jokes, TV skits, cartoons and more than 30 other films. The film is in awe of its material. It seems to really believe in ...
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Jan 21, 2015 · Like 2001 established for movies the issues of man versus machine, free will, God, and our place in the universe, all with an unblinking stare, Nosferatu unsuspectingly started as many traditions. Anyone who has watched a supernatural themed horror movie in the last 40 years will recognize tropes Nosferatu started or helped solidify. Horror ...
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1 day ago · In fact, one of the Oscars he was nominated for was the movie about Nosferatu—or at least a fantasy version of it where Dafoe played a literal vampire who is cast by eccentric director F.W ...
1 day ago · Because let’s face it: Cinema’s most famous vampire has popped up in various, eclectic incarnations quite a bit in recent memory, from Renfield to Abigail, Last Voyage of the Demeter and even ...
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (German: Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens) is a 1922 silent German Expressionist vampire film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife (Greta Schröder) of his estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim) and brings the plague to their town.
Nosferatu. Released Mar 5, 1922 1h 5m Horror Fantasy CTA List. 97% Tomatometer 75 Reviews 87% Popcornmeter 25,000+ Ratings. In this highly influential silent horror film, the mysterious Count ...
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Jul 30, 2023 · F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horrors (‘ Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens’, 1922) was an unauthorized yet first adaptation of Bram Stoker 1897’s novel Dracula, the most influential literary source for the vampire legend. To evade copyright law, Nosferatu’s screenwriter Henrik Galeen changed the story from London to the ...