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1922    85mFantasy, Horror
7.897%87%7.7
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
Directed by F. W. Murnau
  • Max SchreckCount Orlok
  • Gustav von WangenheimHutter
  • Greta SchröderEllen
  • Georg H. SchnellHarding
  • Ruth LandshoffRuth
  • Gustav BotzProfessor Sievers
  • Alexander GranachKnock
  • John GottowtProfessor Bulwer
  • Max NemetzA Ship Captain
  • Wolfgang HeinzSailor 1
  • Albert VenohrSailor 2
  • Eric van VieleSailor (uncredited)
  • Karl EtlingerSailor / Inspector at the Quay (uncredited)
  • Guido HerzfeldHost (uncredited)
  • Hans Lanser-RudolfMagistrate (uncredited)
  • Loni NestChild at Window (uncredited)
  • Josef SarenyHead Coachman (uncredited)
  • Fanny SchreckHospital Nurse (uncredited)
  • Hardy von FrancoisDoctor in the Hospital (uncredited)
  • Heinrich WitteSailor / Warden in the Madhouse (uncredited)
  • theLillyPad
    theLillyPadFebruary 17, 2025
    This is it. This is the movie that finally helped me "get" the appeal of silent films. Max Schreck's chilling performance as Count Orlock still holds up. The damaged nature of the film real only serves to add to the frightening atmosphere. This is from the era before Hollywood and the Haze Code took over, ladies and gentlemen. The era when films were still being made mostly by individual artists with nothing but a vision and passion for the craft. Will it shock and scare you like it intended for its original audience? Probably not. But its absolutely worth a watch nonetheless.
  • luisarthurdeoliveira
    luisarthurdeoliveiraSeptember 14, 2025
    The film Nosferatu is perfect and wonderful, with a very well thought out story and the drama in the right tone, I recommend it to anyone.
  • collette whitney
    collette whitneyApril 15, 2025
    Beautiful absolutely beautiful. Flim 🖤
  • Garrett Wilkins
    Garrett WilkinsAugust 29, 2026
    Count Orlok barely has to move to make Nosferatu unsettling. F.W. Murnau understands that sometimes the most frightening thing a camera can show you is a figure simply standing in the wrong place, and the film builds much of its horror around that idea. Orlok's shadow stretching up the staircase remains one of the great images of silent cinema, while Max Schreck's rigid posture, elongated hands, and rat-like features make him feel less like a man playing a vampire than something that has wandered into the human world by mistake. Murnau's stark compositions and use of natural locations give the film a strange physicality that makes its nightmare feel surprisingly tangible. As usual with films from this era, the age of the production does become difficult to overlook. Its slow pacing and reliance on intertitles can make the story feel distant, while the limitations of silent-era filmmaking occasionally prevent some of its ideas from having the impact they might have today. Even so, Nosferatu was one of cinema's earliest major attempts to bring a vampire story to the screen, and its influence can be felt in horror nearly everywhere you look. Murnau's imagery remains extraordinary, and Schreck's Orlok has become one of the medium's defining monsters. It may not be the easiest silent film to connect with today, but Nosferatu is a very good film that deserves the enormous place it occupies in cinema history.
  • sergio sottili
    sergio sottiliJune 18, 2026
    truly masterpiece,horrific,scary ,with lights darkness,that was really great cinema
  • lucifer64
    lucifer64December 10, 2025
    As for the movie that was released in 1922, it is very excellent Where the current vampires were quoted from him With their elegant image
  • youdetoilet
    youdetoiletDecember 7, 2025
    i was about to give this five but they made my man nosferatu go around with his coffin on his arms.
  • PoetofCinema
    PoetofCinemaOctober 21, 2025
    A great horror silent film! Some shots of Nosferatu were legendary.
  • Kylacham
    KylachamJuly 7, 2025
    Watching it as a piece of history, and through an educational lens as cinema, will be more rewarding than seeking straight-up entertainment. So I've split the difference with 3.5 Stars and entrust the viewer to determine on what level they would like to engage.
  • cloudsrival
    cloudsrivalOctober 15, 2025
    This movie must've been amazing in 1922. Today's standards feature far scarier and more effective ways to build tension, however. By sheer pedigree, this movie deserves at least a 3. I prefer the atmosphere and cinematography of 1932's Vampyr more; I would rank Caligari higher than this; and more has been done since that ranks higher in the ratings.
  • AndreiTamas
    AndreiTamasJuly 30, 2025
    not bad for old ah movie bettwer than new one
  • bogometer
    bogometerMay 23, 2025
    I am not a fan of silent movies in general but this one is worth the experience. The soundtrack contributes greatly to the building sense of dread as Murnau takes us on a nightmarish journey of death.
  • Rowan Krzysiak
    Rowan KrzysiakJanuary 16, 2025
    The performances are hokey, the production is cheap and history has not been kind to the story in that you basically already know what it has to offer. That said, the Count still manages to cut a fairly horrific figure.

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