Nosferatu Reviewed

A backup post from my original blog here.

Nosferatu symphony of horror
1922 silent film
Directed by F W Murnau starring Max Schrek as Count Orlok (they couldn't get the rights to use count Dracula or even the word vampire for that matter)

I'm gonna start with this one and I think its a grand choice cuz its often considered the  first horror film ever made and it was horribly cheesy and that means it defined cheesy horror imo.

The film starts off with a young man being persuaded to sell a house to a vampire and he ends up visiting Draculas castle in Transylvania and having his wife lusted after by a sick vampire who brings a death plague to an unsuspecting village.

The story progresses very slowly and the background music makes it even more drab. An interesting thing about the movie is throughout the tellings a book called the book of the nosferatu is being read to you to teach you how to defend against them. The costumes were very Victorian London except the big Kahuna Count Orlok who is dressed in stilts a long nose pointy ears and the fakest webbed claws you've even seen! Roflmao!

If you don't have the patience to get through to the end you probably shouldn't watch this movie. It's kind of boring at first but picks up at the end when nosferatu (spoiler alert) brings the plague.

Its definitely not up to modern standards where people can't hold their attention more than 15 seconds. No joke. But I enjoyed it and it's a classic that I think every classic horror zombie has to see at least twice.

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