Many times! I had a poor VHS copy in the late 80s, but now I have a restored DVD. I've been playing live piano for silent movies for over a decade now, and I've shown/performed "Nosferatu" several times. Audience reaction is mixed: some find it silly, but most find it genuinely creepy. For myself, I think it holds up quite well, even better when viewed in the context of its times. The framing of every shot is always artistic. And there are many shots of Count Orlock glaring balefully towards the camera that still chill my bones, every time. I love it.
It’s better than “Begotten” imo I downloaded it online back in like 2004-5 off of a website onto my old laptop I got for Christmas had my father watch it (he was from the 30s, I was born in 91) and he said he saw it back in Germany when he was stationed there and even he said everyone back then thought Max Shrenk was a real vampire
Clearly you've never seen David Lynch's "Eraserhead." Now THAT is a nightmare in the guise of a film. It stays with you for the rest of your life. If you've never seen it, you most certainly should give it a watch.
Yes it is. Still scares the #$R*#($ out of me. The Herzog film is brilliant as well, but I think you can't ever match "Nosferatu" mainly BECAUSE it's a silent film.
Yup, I didn´t expect much and the thing totally creeped me out. The way Orlok keeps eye contact with the woman over the street while turning away from the window gives me goosebumps every time.
Murnau's "Nosferatu", Herzog's "Nosferatu" and the quasi mockumentary "Shadow of the Vampire" are an unbeatable combination for a binge watch. Three of the best of the vampire genre. Max Schrek, Klaus Kinski and Willem Dafoe are all memorable as Nosferatu.
I love nosferatu! It really brings home the effect of a pandemic in the old days... here we were complaining that our favorite restaurant wouldn't deliver, and then you realize, at least you're not surrounded by hordes of plague carrying rats, and defrosting a chicken breast and baking a potato doesn't seem so onerous after all...
Seems like I read something about rat packs, in big cities, attacking each other during lockdown. And when the restaurants first open for outdoor eating they were awfully bold towards customers. It made me glad to live in the country. Until I read about the waves of rats in Australia. Shudder
@@Jadeserphant New York had rats swarming the streets, looking for food when the restaurant businesses were shut down. Places that had been supporting rat populations for hundreds of years suddenly vanishing caused the rats to starve and attack each other and anything, or anyone, else, crazed by starvation. We had it here on our riverwalk. 300 years of habitation and then nothing left all kinds of scavengers nuts, but rats were really dangerous and aggressive...
*Nosferatu flicking the light switch* SpongeBob, Squidward, and Me: *Sardonic smirks* "Nosferatu!" *Nosferatu smiles innocently then the scene switches to black*
Nosferatu is a truly terrifying film, I love it so much. Nosferatu the Vampyre with Bruno Ganz is also awesome, that movie has some of the best lighting of all time.
The image of Nosferatu has terrorized me the majority of my life. He was what was under my bed and in my closet and chasing me through my nightmares. I was in my 20's before I had the courage to actually watch the movie. Before then it was just clips from documentaries like "In Search of". It's a pretty amazing film.
Holds up extraordinary well. My 19 year old son had watched it on his own out of curiosity several years ago. I didn’t know he even knew what Nostferatu was. What other silent film is still discussed almost a century later?!
Nosferatu (1922) is arguably the greatest horror film ever made, the remake Nosferatu (1977) was insanely good mainly because of the real life insane director (Werner Herzog) & real life insane actor (Klaus Kinski) that made it & lets not forget about Shadow Of The Vampire (2000) because Williem Defoe & John Malkovich play amazing duo & other than Max Shreck in the original film , i can't think of a better actor to play as Nosferatu other than Williem Defoe❤️
It is brilliant. It feels dreamlike and evil. I’m not just talking about Schreck alone, but the whole film. I really love the dark supernatural malice in the film.
The greatest horror film ever made was Nosferatu. Every other horror film from then on has tried to emulate something from that film. Herzog's version was 100% A TRUE MASTERCLASS in re-booting a great film for a new generation. Down to the detail.
To set things straight about the location: although some scenes were filmed in Lübeck, the city that modeled for fictional Wisborg was Wismar. That's were Schreck carried the coffin through the water gate. The market square and the monastery garden with the water well are also in Wismar and remain almost unchanged to this day. I visited the locations a few weeks ago. This summer Wismar celebrated that Nosferatu was filmed there, exactly a century ago.
I was curious about silent movies and watched Nosferatu and the main thing I remember was him vaporizing by the sunlight. It was different from movies with sound.
@@GeoWool70 It was, but what I really came away from it was the fact that I think Eddie Izzard would have been a great silent movie actor, his emoting in those scenes are awesome. But yes, as a whole, good movie.
8:20 again the urban legend is repeated that Nosferatu was almost lost due to the destroy order... It really is a bunch of BS. The order was made to destroy *cinema prints* (so the distributed copies, not the original masters) and was only effective in a few countries where the distributors agreed to honor Florence Stoker's order even tough it had only legal basis in the UK itself. The only real effect was that it was hardly shown again (risking getting sued), but that didn't really affect *archive prints* anyway... Multiple prints survived into the present day that were useful enough for restoration (the best ones are the BFI (sepia tone) and FW Murnau foundation (re-colorised), both on blu-ray), not to mention there was a sound re-edit version made in 1930 called 'The Twelfth Hour' using the original prints, even using unreleased material! How the hell would they be able to do that if the prints were almost all destroyed besides the 'fabled print' that supposedly turned up in the USA... The only actual link to the USA is that the first home video releases appeared there in the 1980s on grey market labels using some beaten up low grade copy (perhaps a video dupe of the MoMA print that got leaked/bootlegged). So much for 'fabled prints', it was actually the low point in the film's history until the first European restorations appeared on VHS and DVD. Really please stop repeating this fairy tale. This was a matter of preventing re-releases in cinema unless there would be some kind of royalties settlement reached, that's all. In no way was the film at risk of being lost. You could even consider the Streisand Effect (80 years before the term existed) of the film getting banned motivating archives to not destroy it and risking perhaps it getting overlooked for preservation (like what happened to 4 devils, Murnau's 1928 film).
While I've grown to Loathe Dracula and most Vampire movies I love Nosferatu. I enjoy all 3 of them, but the first is the best. The creature, the camera work, the originality, The whole Enchilada makes for a cinema classic that stands the test of time 100 years later. I recommend that everyone see it.
This is excellent! I’ve seen the film many times and read a great deal about it, and if there are any errors here I failed to catch them. I learned a number of very interesting things, too. Well done! Thanks!
Except where it deviates from Stoker's original novel as in making Dracula a tragic romantic leading man, in the novel Dracula was an animalistic predator closer to a rapist.
@@hyacinthlynch843 I wouldn't call their acting bad; they're simply miscast. Both are excellent in character parts, where they can create an interesting portrayal. But in "Dracula," they have little to distinguish themselves, and are not much more than cardboard cutouts.
I found the 1922 "Nosferatu" and the Klaus Kinski "Nosferatu" in 1979 very good. The Cabinet of Dr. Calgari was good too. In Dr Calgari movie the character Cesare was played by Conrad Veidt-who played Major Strasser in movie "Casablanca. Nosferatu was the ugliest vampire In my opinion. I love vampire movies & vintage movies. I have the movie "Sunrise" too. it's very good. Thanks for your well researched upload.
The innovative makeup, fangs, and finger extensions were way ahead of their time! And Max knew how to accentuate the scary effect with his face and movement.
@@nancymontgomery8897 Hello. Yes. I agree. Plus Lon Chaney used real animal teeth sometimes which was painful but he did it in some of his movies. Can you imagine ?
It's a great film and restorations make it very clear and visually interesting. It's ironic that Stokers' wife almost destroyed the film that helped make Dracula famous. Legally and morally (?) it was a Pirate film.... but thanks to law breakers it survives. I wonder how many other films suffer from the same problem?. I have been trying to get a copy of Sahara the Bogart movie that I can view. I have copies but they won't play in the U.S. And frankly they are bad copies. That makes me worry about that film.
I would speculate that our internet meme image of Nosferudy Ghouliani is based more on Willem Dafoe's makeup in "Shadow of the Vampire" than on the original.
I have a DVD copy of Nosferatu it was introduced by David Carradine and the entire movie has the band Type O negative as the background music it is 1 of my many all time fav in my Collection and hope to pass it on to my kids one day
With the silence capitulated with music and the lack of color and the use of light and shadow, modern-day filmmakers could learn a lot from Nosferatu. Max Shrek in Nosferatu is iconic and his image is used in so many things today.
BS! Max Schreck was a real vampire, there are no actors that could have pulled this movie off. This is the only vampire movie that still scares me to this day!
Nosferatu is a balls-out classic and in my top ten horror movie list. It features many scenes that still carry a potent charge of horror, and I've watched it many more times than the Universal or Hammer Draculas.
The movie was shot in Slovakia, check out the Orava castle ;-)) thats the Orlock’s castle in the movie. It still looks the same, very much worth a visit ;-))
This was so cool! I didn't know anything about Murnau, and as an Occultist, I thought that fact about him was really cool! This movie is iconic. I don't think I've seen the remake.
yes, there's a little more to it than that: why did the actor who played Nosferatu not come forward to receive the award for Best Male Actor for that year; why did half the cast die on location; why do expert editors say there is no cut when the leading lady dies and she never came back alive? The photography is amazing, the Willem Defoe version is excellent but audiences don't like movies about movies. It's rare, but some people do file their front teeth with solid files. there have never been so many coffins brought back from a rural film-shoot ever, about eleven. I saw it at The Gate and The Electric in Notting Hill, where Christie the serial killer worked as a projectionist, and lecturers from the German film schools speaking before the screening saw real problems with it.
base on the movie release dates only the book of dracula was first , 1922 nosferatu was the first monster movie to come out so the movie came before dracula , the 1920-1940 are only monster movies in the horror movie genera, but what i be looking at could be wrong 1941 -58 no horror other than remaster or seqels of monster movies , the unless thillers of the horror genera came out before 1959 , horror only had monster movies until then
For the record Graus told this story in court cus florence stoker wife of the late bram sued for plagarism and it was one of the reasons that she won...
10:13 read Warren Newton Beath's terrifying 1995 vampire novel ''Bloodletter'', for what really happened in the accident that killed Murnau. Mr. Beath is also the author of several books on James Dean.
part of the reason that nosferatu comes off as antisemitic is because of the source material. Bram Stoker’s dracula reflects the antisemitic victorian fears of a jewish invasion, and is why dracula’s appearance leans into antisemitic stereotypes
Popularly, yes but I do believe an "e" followed by a single consonant (L) is actually said as an "ay" in most Romance languages as well as in guttural languages. Double "LL" s would change that of course. At any rate, only Bela is his actual name. His original surname was " Blakow".
