Nosferatu the Vampyre
A horror about the lonely Count Daracula - the blood-sucking nobleman attempting to spread his influence all over the world. The Dracula does not expect to be prevented from continuing his demonic practices by a woman named Lucy Harker...
15 January 1921, Bielsko-Biala, Slaskie, Poland
19 February 1914, Bègles, Gironde, France
22 March 1941, Zürich-Seebach, Switzerland
4 July 1899, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
5 September 1942, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
27 June 1955, Paris, France
30 April 1945, Gummersbach, Germany
12 January 1930, The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
17 November 1971, Munich, West Germany
7 January 1938, Paris, France
January 07, 2016
An evocative exercise in alienation and existential dread, Herzog masterfully tackles one of the greatest gothic stories ever with Nosferatu the Vampyre with the unforgettable (as always) Klaus Kinski as the titular blood-sucker.June 01, 2015
Worth seeing for the visuals, then, but minor Herzog.October 29, 2008
Between the hordes of stowaway rats that accompany Dracula's arrival, and a town-plaza dance of folly by doomed survivors (a Herzog addition), it's like being present at the birth of a medieval legend.May 18, 2014
Nosferatu is at least as much a tribute to surrealist pioneer Luis Bunuel as it is to Murnau.January 26, 2006
There's a grey, plodding quality to the film which sidesteps oppressive, doom-laden inevitability and goes straight to slightly dull.November 17, 2011
This is a pinnacle of horror cinema: atmospheric, rhapsodic and -- especially in the slow-burn confrontations between Lucy and her otherworldly inamorato -- achingly transcendent.May 09, 2005
It's funny without being silly, eerie without being foolish and uncommonly beautiful in a way that has nothing to do with mere prettiness.September 21, 2007
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.September 22, 2015
It's a curious mix: at times deliriously hammy, at others melancholy, contemplative and oddly beautiful.May 16, 2014
Herzog, cinematographer Jorg Schmidt-Reitwein and production designer Henning von Gierke conjure a near-endless stream of arresting images.November 24, 2011
To say of someone that they were born to play a vampire is a strange compliment, but if you will compare the two versions of Nosferatu you might agree with me that only Kinski could have equaled or rivaled Max Schreck's performance.October 14, 2014
Madness and death hang over Herzog's Wagner-scored vision like a black cloud, while Kinski adds much poignancy to Dracula, the lonely immortal.