Stoker's heirs sued over the adaptation, and a court ruling ordered that all copies of the film be destroyed. However, a few prints of Nosferatu survived, and the film came to be regarded as an influential masterpiece of cinema.This movie is a must-see if you're at all interested in horror or vampire films.
HorrorNews.net calls it "one of the greatest horror films of all time" Time Out gives it 5 out of 5 stars and says, "may not be the world’s first horror flick ... but it’s the most influential." Empire Online gives it 5 out of 5 stars and concludes, "they certainly don't make movies like this faded, haunting masterpiece of silent cinema any more".
DVD Journal has the history of the film's inspiration, making, and unlikely survival. Roger Ebert has it on his list of Great Movies. Rotten Tomatoes has a critics score of 97%.
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This scared the heck out of me. I ended up dancing on the bed :-D I blogged about it if you have nothing better to do: https://cjkennedyink.blogspot.com/2010/06/dracula.html
ReplyDeleteThe first time I saw it I was in college and was 18 years old. I was used to the less overtly creepy and more romantic Bela Lugosi-style vampire in film. This was an eye-opener! Thx for the link. I enjoy making my blogger rounds, and links are always welcome :)
DeleteI lollipops this film! Valerie
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad the Stoker heirs weren't successful in their efforts to destroy this film.
DeleteI wrote 'I loooooooooooooved' this film but my computer corrected it to lollipops, interesting. Sorry!
DeleteI speak fluent auto-correct, so I un-"corrected" it in my mind ;)
DeleteI don't really like horror but I do vampire films as they are just plain scary. Going to go watch this now.
ReplyDeleteI do hope you like it. I like some horror but not slashers or torture or child endangerment plots. Vampire movies are more what I tend towards.
DeleteI saw this decades ago. Remember it as quite campy, but then I am not into horror movies and generally tend to find them more silly than scary. Funny, though--because of your posts I am shocked by how many horror movies I have actually seen--LOL!
ReplyDeleteWatching the old movies requires a certain attitude. This one would be worth watching again, keeping in mind how important it was and still is to the horror genre. But, then again, if you don't care for horror I've got some spaghetti westerns I can recommend ;)
DeleteI'm playing catch-up. Not my favorite genre, but sounds like everyone liked it.
ReplyDeleteIt's held up remarkably well and is worthy viewing for its influence and style if for nothing else.
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