Nosferatu was and still is one of the creepiest horrors of all time. The silence throughout the film adds to the atmosphere in a very unsettling way. Nosferatu was originally meant to be based on Bram Stokers Dracula but was denied the rights making the director change the title and vampires ... Read review
Made in 1922, FW Murnau's Expressionist masterpieceNosferatu--A Symphony of Horrorsis an ... more
unofficial but reasonably faithful condensation of parts of Bram Stoker's novelDracula. AlongsideMetropolis(1926) it is one of the very few European features from ...
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Nosferatu is the original Dracula movie - and still, after eighty years, the scariest.When ... more
Bram stoker's widow refused to grant Murnau the rights to Dracula, Murnau and his screenwriter Henrik Galeen simply changed the characters' names and went ahead ...
Made in 1922, FW Murnau's Expressionist masterpieceNosferatu--A Symphony of Horrorsis an ... more
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1922, was the first (albeit unofficial) screen adaptation of Bram Stoker'sDracula. Nearly 80 years on, it remains among the most potent and disturbing horror films ever made. The sight of Max Schreck's hollow-eyed, cadaverous vampire rising creakily from his coffin still has the ability to chill the blood. Nor has the film dated. Murnau's elision of sex and disease lends it a surprisingly contemporary resonance. The director and his screenwriter Henrik Gaalen are true to the source material, but where most subsequent screen Draculas (whether Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Frank Langella or Gary Oldman) were portrayed as cultured and aristocratic, Nosferatu is verminous and evil. (Whenever he appears, rats follow in his wake.)The film's full title--Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens(Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror)--reveals something of Murnau's intentions. Supremely stylised, it differs from Robert Wiene'sThe Cabinet of Dr Caligari(1919) or Ernst Lubitsch's films of the period in that it was not shot entirely in the studio. Murnau went out on location in his native Westphalia. As a counterpoint to the nightmarish world inhabited by Nosferatu, he used imagery of hills, clouds, trees and mountains (it is, after all, sunlight that destroys the vampire). It's not hard to spot the similarity between the gangsters infilm noirhugging doorways or creeping up staircases with the image of Schreck's diabolic Nosferatu, bathed in shadow, sidling his way toward a new victim. Heavy chiaroscuro, oblique camera angles and jarring close-ups--the devices that crank up the tension in Val Lewton horror movies and edgy, urban thrillers such asDouble IndemnityandThe Postman Always Rings Twice--were all to be found first in Murnau's chilling masterpiece. --Geoffrey Macnab
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Production Year: 2000 - Horror - Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Carmen Electra, Anna Faris, Kurt Fuller, James Van Der Beek, Keenen Ivory Wayans
Advantages: Creepy silence Disadvantages: None, unless you dislike silent movies
Nosferatu was and still is one of the creepiest horrors of all time. The silence throughout the film adds to the atmosphere in a very unsettling way. Nosferatu was originally meant to be based on Bram Stokers Dracula but was denied the rights making the director change the title and vampires name to Count Orlok. It was banned in Sweden because of its graphic nature at the time but the ban was lifted in 1972. Even though it is dated and considered ... more
Nosferatu was and still is one of the creepiest horrors of all time. The silence throughout the film adds to the atmosphere in a very unsettling way. Nosferatu was originally meant to be based on Bram Stokers Dracula but was denied the rights making the director change the title and vampires name to Count Orlok. It was banned in Sweden because of its graphic nature at the time but the ban was lifted in 1972. Even though it is dated and considered tame in comparison to the more modern horror movies, it still gives off an eerie, dark and moody unnerving feeling to whoever watches it. Nosferatu is a timeless classic and if you enjoy horror films you can watch this and see how it inspired all those that followed in its footsteps.
Advantages: Chilling horror movie, good lighting effects/ Disadvantages: slow to start with, some unfitting soundtrack
A chilling horror based on the classic novel by Bram Stoker, Nosferatu is a must see horror flick. Very unknown and underrated this film was made in 1922 starring famous German actor Max Schreck as the repugnant Nosferatu.
The DVD itself is beautifully restored to crisp quality and the soundtrack is done much the same justice. The lack of extra features is understandable as they probably didnt think about this in 1922! I wouldnt say the film was deathly scary, but on the other hand the tale is a chilling one and is a must see for any horror fan, as it has one of the most famous scenes in horror history - the famous scene where Nosferatu (Max) climbs the stairs to his victims chamber. Using a silent wind up camera, the shot is taken within an eerie dark circle, lit only by the few candles in the castle.
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theskysthelimit 05.01.2007
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Advantages: The original and the best Disadvantages: Not for those who dislike silent movies
This is a review for the DVD of the 1922 film Nosferatu, staring Max Schrek as the terrifying Graf Orlock.
The story starts when an estate agent travels over a mountain range to conduct business with a wealthy eccentric nobleman (Orlock), his wife pleads with him not to go as she senses danger, men being men never listen and off he goes on his not so merry way, staight into the path of a vampire! (Will they ever learn, it's horror rule number 3!)
The film is based upon the Bram Stoker character of Dracula, and this got the director into a spot of bother, the Stoker family demanded that the film were to be destroyed, unfortunately this didn't happen in Germany and we can still enjoy this film over 80 years later.
Nosferatu was remade in 1979 and starred Klaus Kinski, although this was also a good film, nothing compares to ...
mistresslenore 07.01.2006
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The full-length version of the silent horror classic complete with tinting and toning as in the nitrate original plus a new music score by James Bernard.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
BFI VIDEO; PIAS UK; SONY DADC
Release date
21/01/2002
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
BFIVD 520
Barcode
5035673005200
Languages
Subtitle Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Video Essay By Christopher Frayling, Biographies, Essay On Restoration Of Film
Aspect Ratio
1.33 Full Screen
Sound
Stereo
Professional reviews
Review
"...The bloodsucker flick that sired them all..." (Entertainment Weekly, p.61, 12/01/2001)
F.W. Murnau's silent classic is the original, and some say scariest, DRACULA adaptation, taking Bram Stoker's novel and turning it into a haunting, shadowy dream of German Expressionist horror and dread. Count Orlok, the rodentlike vampire frighteningly portrayed by Max Schreck, is perhaps the most animalistic screen portrayal of a vampire ever filmed. The design was copied by Werner Herzog in his 1979 remake and by Tobe Hooper for his telefilm of Stephen King's SALEM'S LOT that same year. Names had to be changed from the novel when Stoker's wife charged his novel was being filmed without proper permission. Charged with now-legendary cinematic imagery, NOSFERATU is a landmark of the horror genre that should not be missed.
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