Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

I'm okay with fun.

What's cool about Salem's Lot 2 is the monster, the vampire, was modeled on Nosferatu from 1922.

Yeah.

The black and white vampire film.

Like my daughter and I still laugh that we both kept pretending like we had to pee so we could leave the theater.

We both think of it as, yeah, I just, a lot of people like it.

What I think is so neat about Nosferatu of 1922 is to me, that's one of the creepiest film monsters ever, but also kind of goofy in this weird way because he has these rat teeth.

It took me some thinking, like, what is so creepy about this guy? And he has these sort of pointy ears, but he has these long, fangy rat teeth.

yeah.

And the original Nosferatu.

That's a good one, the black and white one.

Nosferatu.

Whoa,

the OG one.

Or maybe, yeah, the mid-1900s, which is why Dracula's in so many things, because the story and character are in the public domain.

That, I was gonna ask, then why the fuck was Nosferatu called Nosferatu? Because the whole idea of that movie was they couldn't get the rights, they didn't realize that they didn't have to.

Well, that was because his widow was fighting them every fucking step of the way,

which is a different story.

These are the definitive

two.

And I think the other one that you can make the argument for is Nosferatu, which we'll get into, but that's a little bit different.

As far as portrayals of Dracula, those are the ones you think of.

This movie is from 2000, and it stars John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe.

It's about the making of 1922's Nosferatu.

The first Dracula movie.

Wow.

And what goes on then now is like, okay, well, he may be a vampire, but I got to get this movie made.

Right.

And so it's the making of Nosferatu, the original 22 film, and just great acting in it.

Malkovich is great.

This movie is from 2000, and it stars John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe.

It's about the making of 1922's Nosferatu.

The first Dracula movie.

Wow.

And what goes on then now is like, okay, well, he may be a vampire, but I got to get this movie made.

Right.

And so it's the making of Nosferatu, the original 22 film, and just great acting in it.

Malkovich is great.

Motherfucker.

The original Nosferatu.

Fuck

you.

And two, I love Vlad the Impaler and I'm going to base a lot of this stuff on him.

So to then be like, you know what I associate Transylvanian versions of vampires with? Nosferatu.

You know, the weird, goblin-y, slightly antisemitic 1927 German movie? That's what the vampires from, you know, the Slavic vampires are like.

It's an interesting

And that's partly to do with Bela Lugosi.

So actually, the first film was Nosferatu.

And that was made in the 1920s by F.W. Murnau and starred Max Schreck.

It was an adaptation that happened without the permission of Florence Stoker.