Nosferatu the Vampyre

Name: Nosferatu the Vampyre
Genre: Drama, Horror
Released: October 1, 1979
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 79
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Carsten Bodinus, Dan van Husen, Isabelle Adjani, Jan Groth

1979

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Werner Herzog Filmproduktion | Release Date: October 1, 1979 | PG

Starring: Bruno Ganz, Carsten Bodinus, Dan van Husen, Isabelle Adjani, Jan Groth, Klaus Kinski, Martje Grohmann, Rijk de Gooyer, Roland Topor, Walter Ladengast

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.

Director: Werner Herzog

Genre(s): Drama, Horror

Rating: PG

Runtime: 107 min

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

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. Read full review

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The Telegraph Tim Robey

Werner Herzog's classic vampire movie Nosferatu will scare the living daylights out of you. Read full review

Keith Phipps

Herzog instills in his film a hypnotic, dreamlike quality. It may fail as a straightforward story, but its many other virtues allow this version of the Dracula tale to stand beside Murnau's Nosferatu, Tod Browning's Dracula, Hammer's The Horror Of Dracula, and the good bits of Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula as the best committed to film. Read full review

Tom Watson

Herzog may shepherd the creative output, but its Kinski’s impassioned misrule that makes Nosferatu, the Vampyre truly terrifying. Read full review

James Mottram

Madness and death hang over Herzog’s Wagner-scored vision like a black cloud, while Kinski adds much poignancy to Dracula, the lonely immortal. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Not far removed from the director’s interest in trance states, his Nosferatu posits a self-pitying creature exhausted by immortality: Sunken-eyed Kinski inverts his usual frenzy into a fatigue underlining the importance of eternal rest. Read full review

Gary Arnold

Herzog has nothing of lasting value to offer the vampire tradition. His Nosferatu is at best unintentional, fitfully risible camp. Read full review

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Apr 25, 2022

Harker goes to Count Dracula's castle to negotiate the purchase of a house. Everyone tries to change their minds, but he's not afraid of vampires or mysteries. Dracula attacks Harker, makes him a vampire and decides to seduce his wife too. The woman (who knows the weaknesses of vampires)Harker goes to Count Dracula's castle to negotiate the purchase of a house. Everyone tries to change their minds, but he's not afraid of vampires or mysteries. Dracula attacks Harker, makes him a vampire and decides to seduce his wife too. The woman (who knows the weaknesses of vampires) manages to entertain Nosferatu until dawn and thus causes his death. . A good remake of the 1922 silent film, but honestly, it convinces a little less.… Expand

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