Nosferatu
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Movie Reviews of Nosferatu
Movie Review: Are you Ready for a Treat
Summary: 5 Stars
Before Bela Lagosi put on the black cape to play Dracula, Max Schreck played the vampire (under the name of Count Orlock.), and he has remains the scariest vampire ever to be filmed. You have to see this movie to fully understand what I mean. The man is extremely creepy. The story is the same as Dracula but it is told differently. The location is changed to Germany and there are very little sets. Most of the movie is done in locations that were landmarks back in 1922 so that there is a more realistic feel. The best scene when Count Orlock is traveling by boat and the mates mysterious become ill and die. I actually jumped when he finally revealed himself.
This movie is silent and is accompanied by either an orchestra or organ music. I suggest the orchestra although at the slow point you'll wonder if they were playing while watching the movie. During the scary parts they were right on the money.
Movie Review: Who knew vampires could be this creepy? Five stars for the vampire alone
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a review for the special edition version.
In the world of horror movies, I always thought that vampires were more silly than scary: Romantic people who like blood and who make corny remarks like "I want to suck your blood". Entertaining? Maybe. Scary? No.
Then I saw Nosferatu.
What a creepy vampire movie! There are some scenes that could have come from my nightmares. I'll admit that this movie technically didn't scare me (I'm a 23 years old, afterall) but it did get under my skin. It features what has to be the most ruthless, inhuman version of the blood-sucker ever! By the end of the movie I didn't think it was possible for the actor playing the undead creature to actually be human.
It's an awesome movie to watch every Halloween. Get it before the clock strikes midnight!
Movie Review: The Sweet Symphony Of Horror
Summary: 5 Stars
Nosferatu is the best silent film ever, along with The Phabtom Of The Opera and Metropolis. Also, the best Dracula movie ever, along with Horror Of Dracula and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Max Schreck's performance of Count Graf Orlok is still one of the most haunting performances today. And his makeup is still one of the best of all time.
This is the 1st Dracula movie ever made, too bad Stoker's wife wanted all the copies of this film destroyed. Good thing not all of them were. To me, this is better than Bela Lugosi's Dracula, for a silent film, Schreck's role as Orlok was more haunting and disturbing than Lugosi's Dracula.
Just remember, if you buy this film on DVD, don't get the one with Type O' Negative's music playing during the film. Get this version and you'll have a bloody good time.
Movie Review: ...only with the lights on.
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie will send a chill up and down your spine. Max Schreck's Dracula is the scariest of any vampire in all of movie making - it is the most vicious and demonic, which truly does parallel Stoker's book. This is not to say that Oldman's Dracula wasn't just as satisfying but, because this is a "silent" movie, an emphasis on the visualisation of the vampire must be made. With Schreck's vampire, you see what you don't hear: the evil and horror of the words Stoker has him speak in his book.I think that a good horror movie doesn't scare you directly, but allows you to scare yourself. Nosferatu does this superbly. This is certainly not a jump-out-of-your-seat thriller and can be a bit campy. However, this is definitely a movie which, if you immerse yourself in it, will absolutely make your skin crawl.
Movie Review: Let's REALLY set the record straight!
Summary: 5 Stars
Here's the daddy of all the boo-movies, the most foreboding, retina-burning, tentacle-fingered bloodsucker, bar none. However, the year this film was released was 1922, not 1929, as is repeatedly claimed on the Amazon site. I have no idea how all listings of this film consistantly claim that the great Rudolf Klein-Rogge appears in this film, either. He does not. I've just checked the credits on my copy and he is not listed in the titles at all. Klein-Rogge's own countenance is as memorable as that of Max Schreck's. That's why Klein-Rogge's cameo in "Das Kabinet" (der Caligari) is so easy to spot. As to the opening titles - 1922 is the first thing I see when running my copy of the film! Klein-Rogge was practically a Fritz Lang exclusive up until that great director fled Germany in the mid-1930's.