Nosferatu
| release date | March 4 1922 |
| studio | Image Entertainment |
| director | F.W. Murnau |
| writer | Henrik Galeen |
| starring | Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Alexander Granach, Georg H. Schnell |
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God I love this movie. Hey check out the Gothic/Industrial Mix. It’s the same movie but with music to fit the scenes. It makes the movie so much more enjoyable.
i will be hated for saying this, but nosferatu has kept me awake more nights than any other movie ive ever seen. max schreck is the absolute freakiest actor to be put on screen. the images you will see in this movie will stay with you long after you finish. the movie, having being silent, makes the film even more scary. count orloffs eyes and movements will stay with me forever.
After Murnau ripped off Dracula and the lawsuit that followed, we are lucky to even have the opportunity to view this amazing horror masterpiece today. So many copies were destroyed and the Stoker’s were not happy about the movie, but we have it. And it is, in my opinion, one of the best vampire movies ever made. It was ahead of its time, and I wish I could go back in time and watch the original screenings just to see the way the audience would react. To this day, this remains one of the most atmospheric movie I have ever seen and left with me some of the most frightening images that I can remember. This movie is definitely a must see for anyone who considers themself a fan of vampire movies, or horror in general. And Also if you like this movie, check out Shadow of the Vampire, a fictional take on teh making of Nosferatu
best silent movie ever very creepy a must see classic!
a creepy movie, really good vampire effects, but too bad it’s silent.
fantastic. i daresay its better than the bela lugosi dracula. when i was a kid the image of orlock scared the absolute crap out of me. the hands/nails, the way he turns his head, the way he walks, its all so horrific. my absolute favorite movie ever. it didnt need dialogue or color. shadows and music alone can be just as scary as someone screaming.
thank you frau stoker for not being able to destroy all footage of this masterpiece.
This is the best Dracula adaptation of them all. No pussy sparkly vampires here, just pure classic horror.
This movie is amazing, considering cinema was still being invented back then. The images will stay with you forever. I love how it uses shadow and contrasts.
The way the vampire is portrayed is exceptionally creepy, and has not been bettered since. How it rises from it’s coffin and creeps around in the shadows – Max Shreck really made the definitive portrayal (even better than Bela Lugosi).
Simply classic, and a big f*** you goes out to Florence Stoker who tried to have this movie destroyed. OWNED BITCH. Luckily we still have this movie to appreciate for all time.
A classic vampire movie, this is ture horror
I freaking love this movie! It has the creepiest vampire of all time! The settings are perfect, and the effects are great for that time!
I know i have given many movies 10/10 lately, but this one deserve it!
Creepy and suspenseful. Many other movies have failed at the feeling that this on gives you. And it makes you feel insane. Like Texas Chainsaw toward the ending you feel crazy. But this is the first horror movie ever made and it is fantastic. I loved it.
” BLOOD! YOUR PRECIOUS BLOOD! ”
This is a silent film from 1922, and yet it still kicks ass compared to the shitty horror movies that are made today! When the movie was over, I just wanted to get up and applaud! Its kinda creepy, especially when Count Orlok is looking directly at the camera! It’s not my fav Dracula film, but I think it’s the second best, right after the 1992 Dracula movie!
This is the true beauty of Horror!A true classic must see for all fans of Horror!Great atmosphere,great facial expression acting,and for the time special effects that would make SYFY channel movies jealous.
My favorite silent film. Truly a classic.
If you are a fan of Dracula, this is a must see. You cant go wrong. Max Schreck is the first cenematic vampire.
Nosferatu is a chilling vampire film because it’s not a movie. It’s an art piece.
As you can see by my avatar, I love this movie. It is a silent black and white movie from the 1920′s but still remains an amazing piece of fiction. it is definitely scarier than horror movies today!
The 1922 Gothic masterpiece of horror “Nosferatu” is a production of sweeping beauty and spectacle, lively performances and intense atmospheric touches, and pure directorial brilliance. It is fantastically well-crafted; a creepy, ominous horror movie; it feels real and authentic just about every moment when it wants to be. As a vampire film – and I’m sure you knew that it was one – it was influential to the many films that followed; many which attempted to imitate the film (and failed), while some of the further entries proved successful in what they took out of the film that essentially started a new generation of terror. This may just be one of the best horror films I have seen; scary, crafty, and unforgettable. Here you shall find images of horror, situations of horror, and the aftermath of horror. It is a film so good that – if we allow it to – it can make us paranoid and frightened for a good time afterwards. It’s impossible not to admire that, since true horror makes us think about it both before and after the film has ended. And “Nosferatu” is without-a-doubt what I’d consider to fit the bill when it comes to being “true”.
Using a simplistic but symbolic and meaningful story, the film is able to focus on how it affects our main senses; one of which is sight. The titular vampire of the story is a repulsive sight; a disgusting, hideous creature who resides in the darkness and is seldom discovered, and when someone does seek him and his evil ways out, he gets rid of them as fast and as soon as he possibly can. The story being told is based off of Bram Stoker’s famous novel “Dracula”, although names of characters were changed since the filmmakers could not get the rights to the book at the time. One such name is the word “vampire” itself, which as you can see, was changed to the film’s title: Nosferatu.
Thomas Hutter is a happily married man with a nice life laid out for him, as it would appear. He is employed, and when his boss asks him to go visit a client in a faraway land, he is overjoyed and immediately sends himself to that place. The client’s name is Count Orlok; and he resides in the Carpathian Mountains. Once he arrives, Hutter faces locals who fear Orlok is a man of danger and mystery; they urge him not to pay him a visit, but the hero must keep going and achieve the goal of meeting the client and ultimately selling him a house. He goes to Orlok’s castle and meets the man, who doesn’t exactly make the best of impressions when dinner comes around, but still proves himself to be quite the host indeed. Hutter rests at Orlok’s castle for the night, and awakens slightly disoriented the next morning; a time in which he discovers things that he was never meant to see.
Such sights he sees; Orlok sleeping in a coffin, a bite-mark on his very own precious neck, and coffins being transported by-raft to a schooner. It becomes clear that Orlok is, indeed, a “nosferatu”; a blood sucker, a vampire. Whatever you wish to call him, either way, he has taken a bite out of Hutter, and in this particular tale, that means that perhaps the once great and happy man has lost his life over-night to someone far more skillful and cunning.
Orlok stows away on a ship back to Hutter’s home-land in order to move in to the new home that he had purchased. While on the ship, many of the passengers begin to disappear through death; and since Orlok is able to make himself appear non-existent and invisible, the deaths are blamed on a plague caused by rats that have also hitched a ride on the vessel, much like Orlok. Before the remaining members of the crew can take further action, Orlok shows himself and controls the captain; taking charge of the ship for the time being, sailing it safely to shore, where he docks, and finally makes way to his house.
“Nosferatu” can be seen from multiple angles; in several different ways. On the surface, it is a masterpiece of Gothic atmosphere and horror; a film that I can gladly call “scary”, whatever that means. However, there’s always something deeper lurking beneath the surface, which elevates it from merely being a “good chiller” to a “great genre picture”. Consider the fact that the paranoid citizens of the fictional German city of Wisbord (where the Count’s new home resides) accuse Hutter’s employer of being the sole cause of the plague and the misfortune that it has left in its past. They don’t know what to think, and they really don’t know who to blame, but hey: they saw him acting strange on occasion, and after all, he has recently been committed to a psychiatric hospital, so why not bring him to his end?
The film opens as it ends; a competent film, and even more, thus, even better. It has a wonderfully ghastly score, flawless and haunting cinematography, as well as some of the creepiest images every filmed. Orlok is played by Max Schrek, who plays the part delicately, even if our main fixation is the complex make-up that he wears. It’s all so admirable, and there’s a lot going on in “Nosferatu”, so I don’t want to spoil it. I have said enough; and I will recap my main points yet again. I loved every moment of this silent horror classic; which shall soon have a spot within my collection of iconic landmarks in horror cinema. It is definitive of why I love and trust this genre so much even in days as dark as this. Films such as “Nosferatu” serve as light in such eternal darkness. And we all need a little bit of light; there’s no denying that.
In my opinion, this is the best adaptation of Dracula yet. It is also one of the few where I genuinely like Harker (Hutter in this version). In other versions he’s… kind of a dick. The overacting, which is necessary for the old silent films, adds rather than subtracts to the overall experience, and the scenery, good god is it just beautiful. With one of the most iconic scenes ever, and an exceptional ending, this is one of my favorite films.
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