It’s on at midnight ET tonight, and it’s worth recording if you can’t stay up that late, although watching it at midnight = great idea.
Interestingly, it’s one of the few (if only) vampire flicks where The Girl takes her destiny in her own hands.
And surely Max Schreck was the most terrifying of all the Counts. Shadow of the Vampire (2000), which speculates that Schreck actually was a Dracula, is a great plot, if tepid movie. Still worth watching for that idea, and Eddie Izzard’s turn as Gustav, the romantic lead in the film.
I’ve got Murnau’s “Faust” in my netflix queue. I think I’ll bump it up to the top. Walken’s character in Batman Returns was named Max Shreck. In one scene inside his office, as he walks up the stairs, the walls resemble the lining in a coffin and looks as if he’s emerging from one.
Very few flicks make me feel “scared”… Nosferatu is genuinely creepy — especially at midnight.
I LOVE this movie. Its like way out of context right now it being Lent and all but what an awesomely creepy film. Yes Max Shreck most frightening of the Counts. He looked like what Stoker envisoned a Vampire would look like, a bloated dead corpse. You can imagine his breath and the empty rotting eye sockets and the creepy ever growing finger nails. EWWWW.
I also LOVED Shadow of the Vampire. Willem Defoe is an amazing, underated actor. And there was no sign of Keanu Reevesing anything. Good stuff.
Love the scene when Schreck bites a bat´s head off. Admiring comment: “Schreck, the German theatre NEEDS you!”
I love the TCM silents – last week they had Harold Lloyd. “Nosferatu” is definitely a reason for me to stay up tonight – with the lights off, of couse. (It’s also nice that I have nothing pressing Monday morning and can sleep in!
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John Malkovich was also very good in it as the egomanaical director. As was Cary Elwes as the smartass editor- in his first scene, he shoots a pistol into the air to get everybody’s attention- I wonder how many real-life editors have wanted to do that?
I went from the Roast of Larry the Cable Guy to this. Oddly, it works.
See what happens when you spend a week with your parents?