Count Orlok
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Oct 31, 2026
Dan OwenHOST
so i thought you know it's not a totally unique and fresh idea but it obviously um was for 1994 relatively um you know for kids especially is probably the first time i've ever thought maybe about things coming out of the cinema screen possibly and that kind of thing and um i mean the ring you know some years later kind of took that idea and ran with it and just recently there was a doctor who episode wasn't there where a very similar thing happened with that character came out of the cinema screen so it's It's kind of interesting to see like a 1984 take on that idea.
Dan OwenHOST
Yeah, I mean, like Simon said, I love the makeup for the Count Orlok analog that we have here.
Dan OwenHOST
It was very, very good.
Dan OwenHOST
And that was probably the scariest element of the story, because I didn't think there was particularly any real scares to the events that were happening.
Ash HolmeHOST
That's my own.
Jack RemmingtonHOST
So because I've got red contact, basically guys, I'm dressed as a gay Nosferatu.
Jack RemmingtonHOST
So it's all gone a bit mental.
Jack RemmingtonHOST
Nosferatu.
Jack RemmingtonHOST
I
Ash HolmeHOST
love the bust down nails.
Ash HolmeHOST
I've got
Jack RemmingtonHOST
red contacts in.
Will DixonAUDIENCE
Like it happened exactly like this.
Will DixonAUDIENCE
It looks like a, um, Does humanity rise to the challenge in defeating Orlok, Dracula, whatever you want to call them? No.
Will DixonAUDIENCE
Yeah, they don't.
Will DixonAUDIENCE
Instead, they party, they celebrate, they have last suppers, they have this weird...
EvHOST
So he's really going back to the source material.
EvHOST
It's a mystery as the audience, you're peeling back layers with each letter to try to understand what is Orlok's influence? How is he influencing this woman? Are these dreams? Are they reality? Edgar's movie feels like a nightmare that you can't get out of until the movie's over.
AlHOST
So as we've clearly established, I think this very unique signature brand for Robert Eggers, it's done him well.
AlHOST
These are not small budget movies.
AlHOST
When he was a high schooler, he directed a stage version of Nosferatu.
AlHOST
Oyster River High School up in New Hampshire, if I'm right.
AlHOST
Around the age of 17, he played Orlok himself.
AlHOST
This one is like a full circle moment for him.
BenedictHOST
I don't fucking know.
BenedictHOST
I think it is like a don't get seduced by this fucking Count Orlok challenge.
BenedictHOST
And I mean, I think we're not passing that, to be
FrederikHOST
honest.
Obie KnoxHOST
Well, Renfield finally meets his host, and Lugosi immediately establishes how different his Dracula is from the creature Max Schreck had played in Nosferatu less than a decade earlier.
Obie KnoxHOST
Count Orlok looks like something that crawled out of a grave and has made only the minimum effort necessary to pass as human.
Obie KnoxHOST
Lugosi's Dracula has no interest in hiding at the edges of society.
Obie KnoxHOST
He's dressed like an aristocrat.
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Obie KnoxHOST
He behaves like a man who's been doing this for centuries and sees no reason to hurt.
Obie KnoxHOST
He's also changed what a screened vampire could look like.
Obie KnoxHOST
Nosferatu gave audiences Count Orlok, a visibly monstrous creature whose appearance immediately tells you something is totally wrong.
Obie KnoxHOST
Lugosi gives us a Dracula who can enter a drawing room and be accepted as a guest.
EliHOST
Instead, I generally think about him essentially as like a malevolent force that is interesting less for its own sake than for the response that it elicits in The Crew of Light and the exploration of their characters that this elicits.
EliHOST
I think that this is very well encapsulated in Robert Eggers' 2024 Nosferatu, which is ultimately an adaptation of Dracula, kind of If you take a few steps with Count Orlok saying, I'm an appetite, nothing more.
EliHOST
I think that that is a kind of compelling read on this character to me.
EliHOST
And I think that this is kind of helped by like the relegation of the Count to the shadows for most of the novel.
Doug JonesGUEST
ever been spoken.
Prairie MillerHOST
And those were scenes from Nosferatu, a symphony of horror, starring Doug Jones, our guest on the show, as that infamous vampire, the famed actor, contortionist, and mime artist specializing in non-human creatures on screen, in a conversation about the re-release on this 20th anniversary of Nosferatu.
Prairie MillerHOST
of Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro's gothic classic with political bite, Pan's Labyrinth, and Doug's challenging simultaneous depiction in the film of both good and evil apparitions, the pale man symbolizing fascism, the brutality of dictator Franco's regime in post-Civil War Spain, and also Pan the Fawn in opposition to fascism.
Prairie MillerHOST
Jones likewise reflects on the legacy that seems to have been passed down to him from late screen legend Lon Chaney as the man of many faces and why.
SaraHOST
I wouldn't want to be a Nosferatu ugliest shit vampire.
DursHOST
Count Orlok, no.
DursHOST
No
SaraHOST
one wants to be Orlok, do
HarryHOST
Let's hear it.
HarryHOST
As I said earlier, Dracula's look is based on Count Orlok from the unauthorised adaptation of Nosferatu.
HarryHOST
The director wanted Dracula to feel a bit different, more animalistic, more feral, and wanted him to be fragile and desperate, kind of like an addict, like desperate for blood.
HarryHOST
I can see that.
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