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10/22/02
Nosferatu (1922)
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Reviews Counted:46
Fresh:45
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.9/10
Consensus: One of the silent era's most influential masterpieces, Nosferatu's eerie, gothic feel -- and a chilling performance from Max Shrek as the vampire -- set the template for the horror films that followed.
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Hutter, a real estate agent, pays a visit to the mysterious Count Orlok, who seeks to relocate from his lair in the Carpathian Mountains and buy a residence in town. The Count becomes infatuated... [More]
Starring: Max Schreck, Gustave Von Wagenheim, Greta Schroeder, Alexander Granach
Director: F.W. Murnau
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Reviews for Nosferatu
Murnau's classic vampire movie, though not his best film, remains one of the most poetic of all horror films.
08/16/07
While it clearly moves at a slower pace than most modern films, it is still one of the most beautiful and atmospheric horror pictures ever made.
01/01/00
In the realm of vampire films, this 1922 silent is the original motherlode. No one since has matched vampire Max Schreck's creepy loathsomeness.
03/10/03
As vampire movies go, few are more memorable than Nosferatu, which is not only the first screen version of Dracula, but, in some ways, remains the best.
01/01/00
Top CriticPossibly the best vampire movie ever made.
09/19/07
F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror still has the power to chill the viewer, due in no small part to the amazing Max Schreck in the title role.
01/01/00
The movie's two main strengths are Max Schreck's compelling performance, as the eerily inhuman vampire, and Murnau's unparallelled ability to blend naturalistic and expressionistic elements.
02/11/02
It’s a visual marvel and a inventive landmark in filmmaking history, but it’s also a bit too empty.
10/01/05
Murnau's horror masterwork features a treasure-trove of silent film techniques, unearthly locations and a truly horrid vampire played by Max Schreck.
09/26/06
It doesn't scare us, but it haunts us. It shows not that vampires can jump out of shadows, but that evil can grow there, nourished on death.
01/01/00
Top CriticMost likely the first horror film to express something beyond simple chills and thrills.
07/13/09
Almost unique in imagining a vampire who is not darkly attractive, but corpselike and ghastly… the imagery resists allegorization, remaining simply, unsettlingly, itself.
11/03/03
It is difficult to watch Nosferatu simply because it is so hard to find a decent copy of the film.
10/26/07
Watching Nosferatu is like standing in the same room as death itself.
11/26/07
Like the message, the acting will strike contemporary audiences as near hysterical, yet the actors’ expressionism is a perfect fit for the expressionism of the filmmaker.
03/22/01
A masterpiece of the German silent cinema and easily the most effective version of Dracula on record.
09/19/07
Top CriticA groundbreaking gothic film whose creative camerawork and dark cinematography is still copied in the movies of today.
01/21/04
...an achievement that reminds us that the simple, structured approaches towards the legend of Dracula are the ones that really terrify.
06/22/02
Contains some truly iconic moments, but too much of it, i.e. any scene without Orlock, is less than stellar.
03/24/09
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