

Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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Nosferatu was released on May 18, 1922.
Nosferatu was directed by F. W. Murnau.
Nosferatu has a runtime of 85m.
Nosferatu was produced by Albin Grau, Enrico Dieckmann.
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
The key characters in Nosferatu are Count Orlok (Max Schreck), Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim), Ellen (Greta Schröder).
Nosferatu is rated Not Rated.
Nosferatu is a Fantasy, Horror film.
Nosferatu has an audience rating of 8.7 out of 10.
Nosferatu has made $27,964 at the box office.













