Synopsis
F. W. Murnau's unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula: the estate agent Hutter travels to the Carpathians to sell a house to Count Orlok, played by Max Schreck, who follows him home by ship and brings the plague to Wisborg.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 84 minutes
- Internet Archive item
- Nosferatu1922VHS
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- 1922
- silent
- Murnau
- Nosferatu
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · c dog · C Lamon · 2022-09-12
good movie, kinda strange seeing a vampire in daylight on a boat.
★★★★ · An early expressionist classic · Edwin Powell · 2024-04-10
This is the first, albeit unauthorized, screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. It has been speed corrected to remedy the jerky, sped-up appearance of so many silent films. English intertitles with the characters' names changed to be consistent with Stoker's novel have replaced the original German ones. The synthesizer musical score is consistent with its origins as a 1980s VHS copy, and makes it appear dated in an entirely different way. That said, the film itself is a classic of German expressionist cinema. It's not exactly frightening, but it lingers with you.
