| | Nosferatu DVD (4 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Foreign Films DVDs, Horror Movies, Recommended Videos, Classic, Essential Cinema, Vintage, Vampires, Silent Cinema, Silent Films, Germany | | Starring | Max Schreck, Greta Schroeder, Gustave Von Wagenheim, Alexander Granach | | Director | F.W. Murnau |
Black & White; Standard Screen; Additional Footage F.W. Murnau's German silent classic is the original--and some say most frightening--DRACULA adaptation, taking Bram Stoker's novel and turning it into a haunting, shadowy dream full of dread. Names had to be changed from the novel when Stoker's wife charged his novel was being filmed without proper permission. Running times vary depending upon versions of the film. Count Orlok, the rodentlike vampire frighteningly portrayed by Max Schreck, is perhaps the most animalistic screen portrayal of a vampire ever filmed. The design was copied by Werner Herzog in his 1979 remake and by Tobe Hooper for his telefilm of Stephen King's SALEM'S LOT that same year. NOSFERATU is an eerie, menacing film that should not be missed. The last name of Max Schreck is German for "terror" or "to frighten."
In 2000, Willem Dafoe portrayed Max Schreck and John Malkovich played F.W. Murnau in the film SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE.
Nosferatu Reviews: "...The bloodsucker flick that sired them all..."
-- Entertainment Weekly Staff, Entertainment Weekly "...NOSFERATU inspired dozens of other Dracula films, none of them as artistic or unforgettable..."
-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times "...A genius of silent cinema, Murnau uses a range of primitive but still startling techniques..."
-- John Wrathall, Total Film "...[A] classic..."
-- Geoffrey Macnab, Sight and Sound "...Haunting....The nightmarish appearance of Max Schreck as history's favorite vampire remains an indelible image of horror..."
-- Premiere Staff, Premiere 5 stars out of 5 -- "[E]ven across the oceans of time since it was made, it still creeps you out like very few creature features have ever done."-- Ian Nathan, Empire 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The film] remains the template of vampire cinema....Max Schreck still registers as one one of the eeriest ghouls of horror cinema."-- Jonathan Romney, Uncut "...[A] silent masterpiece..."-- Mike Clark, USA Today Nosferatu | List Price | $19.95 (You save $5.20) | | Studio | Kino on Video | | Orig Year | 1922 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  7988  | | CD Universe Part number | 5002905 | | Catalog number | 2532 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Sep 24, 2002 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Also Known As | F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu; Terror of Dracula; Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie Des Grauens; Dracula; Zwolfte Stunde, Die; Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror; Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror; Nosferatu the Vampire | | Running Time | 93 Minutes | | Additional Info | Kino on Video | | Movie Details | Tinted; Digitally Re-Mastered; Kino on Video |
Nosferatu DVD Region 1
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Additional Release Material:
Bonus Footage: Excerpts from F.W. Murnau's JOURNEY INTO THE NIGHT, THE HAUNTED CASTLE, PHANTOM, THE LAST LAUGH, FAUST, and TABU
Featurette: Scene Comparison: Novel, Screenplay, and Film
Alternate Audio Tracks:
1. Score Composed by Gerard Hourbette and Thierry Zaboitzeff
2. Score Composed by Donald Sosin
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
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Stills/Photos
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Approaching the legendary German classic 1922 film NOSFERATU: EIN SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS by F.W. Murnau with his own unique sensibilities, Werner Herzog establishes a link between himself and the classic days of German cinema and in the process crafts a lush adaptation as well as a classic in its own right. Stark, symbolic cinematography and intensely stylized performances create what Herzog refers to as a different plane of reality, injecting the age-old tale of Count Dracula with a modern sense of mysticism, desire, and wonder.
Frequent Herzog collaborator Klaus Kinski portrays the Dracula character with a silent intensity, tingeing the vampire's inhuman monstrosity with a deep sense of pathos and longing. Completing a stellar international cast are Bruno Ganz (a regular in the films of Wim Wenders) and French film star Isabelle Adjani, both giving subtle yet compelling performances as the formerly happy couple who fall prey to Dracula's lust for life and love. From the opening image of rows of openmouthed mummies and the repeated motif of a bat in slow-motion flight to beautiful scenic shots of European mountains and beaches, NOSFERATU is a visually stunning film, presenting visual tableaus taken directly from the original as well as those of Herzog's invention. The extreme stylization of the film recalls Herzog's similarly hypnotic and haunting film HEART OF GLASS--creating a wholly original film, that despite its differences maintains a strict and loving faithfulness to the original.
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