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Nosferatu 1922
Let me introduce you to Nosferatu, based on Bram Stoker's chilling tale. Directed by F.W. Murnau in 1922 this film is a true cult movie with Max Schreck as the most scary and ugly vampire ever shown on the silver screen.
Alexander Granach plays Reinfield, the real estate agent and Gustav von Wangenheim plays reinfield's clerk, who becomes spelled by Nosferatu. Greta Schroeder plays Nina, Reinfield's wife, the woman Nosferatu has set out to make his own.
Tarantino in some of his movies, shows this vampire, which I consider to be a true sign of
admiration. Even the very strong performance of Klaus Kinski in Nosferatu (1979) doesn't come
close to Max Schreck. If you are familiar with Coppola's Dracula movie which he directed in
1992, just check the similarities and conclude like I did, special effects do not make a film better by default. Even when directed by one of the most acclaimed directors of the second half of the former century.
The Dracula series from the thirties and forties featuring Bela Lugosi as the blood sucker are a series not following the original story, movies we call spin offs these
days. In the sixties and seventies Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing played the Count and the
Doctor in just another follow up on the Lugosi movies, mostly staged in modern time. Entertaining and sometimes shivering if one doesn't expect too much.
The feature you are about to see shows Reinfield traveling to Transylvania to sell a house to
Nosferatu in London. He meets with the Count and is captured to be his prisoner. The vampire saw a picture of Nina and is instantly remembered of his own murdered wife.
Now the vampire travels to London to capture Nina's heart. During his journey by boat we see what his powers can do. Reinfeld escapes and tries to find and kill the vampire before he reaches London. But Nosferatu arrives in London. The horror is gruesome..
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producer | Dieckmann, Enrico | screenwriter | Galeen, Henrik |
| musicscore | Erdmann, Hans |
duration | 94 |
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sound | No |
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genre | horror |
country | GERMANY |
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