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Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror

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Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror

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Classic silent horror based on Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring Max Schreck. Hutter, a German estate agent, travels to Transylvania to visit a client, Count Orlock. But the journey is full of strange portents, and Hutter soon discovers that the Count's real motives have little to do with the purchase of a property.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Alan Jones

Celebrated German director FW Murnau plundered Bram Stoker's Dracula without permission for this 1922 ground-breaker, and was successfully sued by Stoker's wife - all prints were ordered to be destroyed, but a few survived. The result is the most frightening incarnation of the vampire count in horror history. With his grasping claws, pointed fangs, bald pate and white cadaverous features, Count Orlock, played by the hideous Max Schreck, creeps through Murnau's archetypal silent imagery with a mesmerising authority that retains a surprising amount of tension. The chilling finale, highlighted by Schreck's terrifying shadow outside his victim's door (and enhanced by Hammer composer James Bernard's new, specially commissioned score for the restored print) is one of the classic sequences in the genre and packs a powerful punch even by today's standards.

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rolenameCount Orlock, NosferatuMax SchreckKnock, an estate agentAlexander GranachHutter, his employeeGustav von WangenheimEllen, his wifeGreta SchroederHarding, ship ownerG H SchnellAnnie, his wifeRuth LandshoffProfessor BulwerJohn GottowtProfessor SieversGustav BotzCaptain of the DemeterMax NemetzSeamanWolfgang Heinz

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rolenameDirectorF W Murnau

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Theatrical distributor

Eureka Entertainment

Released on

2013-10-25

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video and DVD

Formats

Black and white

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