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- 1979
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 47 m
- 1979
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 47 m
Summary Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.
Directed By: Werner Herzog
Written By: Tom Shachtman, Martje Grohmann, Bram Stoker, Werner Herzog
- 1979
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 47 m
- 1979
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 47 m
Nosferatu the Vampyre
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7.5
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Summary Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.
Directed By: Werner Herzog
Written By: Tom Shachtman, Martje Grohmann, Bram Stoker, Werner Herzog
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Generally Favorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
79
79% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
21% Mixed
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4 Reviews
0% Negative
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With quiet, seething intensity, Kinski turns Dracula into a simultaneously sinister and sympathetic creature—one whose viciousness curdles the blood, even as his fanged ferocity comes across as merely a wounded-animal reaction to his eternal loneliness.
This is Herzog's journey to the heart of darkness, a film that specifically echoes his earlier offerings The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and his South American odyssey Aguirre, Wrath of God.
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Based on 21 User Ratings
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Released one year after John Carpenter's Halloween, Nosferatu was a last gasp for the elegant horror film. It is deliberately paced and virtually bloodless. A feeling of inexorable dread is vividly etched in images such as a skeletal cuckoo clock, an army of rats invading a village, and plague victims enjoying "what little time we have left" by drinking and dancing in the square.
Herzog may shepherd the creative output, but its Kinski’s impassioned misrule that makes Nosferatu, the Vampyre truly terrifying.
Held together by the sheer power of Klaus Kinski's performance as the vampire, Nosferatu, the Vampyre evokes several scenes (practically shot-for-shot) from the Murnau classic while slightly altering some of the original's thematic structures.
A competent, atmospheric remake, but, considering the quality of Murnau's masterwork, is it necessary?
The acting is too eccentric and the narrative drive too weak to satisfy fans of the genre, but Herzog's admirers will find much in the film's animistic landscapes and clusters of visionary imagery.
Awards
German Film Awards
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 2 Nominations
