Ruuz
Did I kill one of your people, Murnau? I can't remember.
Final rating:½ - I really liked it. Would strongly recommend you give it your time.
Nosferatu
- Horror
2/16/1922
95
NR
A symphony of horror.
The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok's servant, Knock, prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.
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- $19,054
- self sacrifice
- transylvania
- germany
- loss of loved one
- vampire
- shapeshifting
- coffin
- supernatural
- castle
- ghost ship
- black and white
- silent film
- seashore
- vampire bat
- real estate agent
- ghoul
- psychotronic
- locket
- sailing ship
- corpse in coffin
- nosferatu
- real estate
- black death
- expressionism
- mountain country
- sleepwalking
- romania
- rat
- german expressionism
- dracula
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Cast
Max SchreckCount Orlok- Gustav von WangenheimHutter
Greta SchröderEllen- Georg H. SchnellHarding
- Ruth LandshoffRuth
- Gustav BotzProfessor Sievers
- Alexander GranachKnock
- John GottowtProfessor Bulwer
- Max NemetzCaptain
- Wolfgang Heinz1st Sailor
- Albert Venohr2nd Sailor
Eric van VieleSailor (uncredited)- Karl EtlingerSailor / Inspector at the Quay (uncredited)
- Guido HerzfeldHost (uncredited)
- Hans Lanser-RudolfMagistrate (uncredited)
- Loni NestChild at Window (uncredited)
Reviews
Geronimo1967
If you were ever to be able to commit your imagination to film when you read Bram Stoker's "Dracula" then I expect you would struggle to come up with anything more vivid than this. What is most striking is the wonderful detail as poor old estate agent "Hutter" is despatched to the home of "Count Orlok" (Max Schreck) to negotiate the acquisition of an isolated house for him. Once he arrives at the castle, we are subsumed in the eeriness and wickedness as it becomes clear that "Orlok" is an epitome of evil. Our story follows the travels of the "Count" from his castle to his new home - wreaking plague and havoc as he goes - until he arrives in the town inhabited by "Ellen" (a superbly vulnerable yet strong Greta Schröder) - the wife of the est...