Sunday, January 24, 2021

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Nosferatu the Vampyre is a 1979 West German remake of the 1922 Nosferatu film. Directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski, how can you resist?

I watched it on TubiTV. Here's a trailer:


The British Film Institute closes an appreciative article with this:
Eerily beautiful and remarkable in many respects (not least for the acting – notably the expressionist performances of Kinski and Isabelle Adjani, but also that of Bruno Ganz), Nosferatu the Vampyre is at once a tribute to Murnau’s original and the golden age of German filmmaking and a musing on the vampire myth and the gothic tradition. In its various divergences from its hallowed predecessor, it is also – perhaps inevitably, I’d say, given that this is a Herzog film – a wry, haunting meditation on the human condition. Death, as Dracula reminds us, is not the worst thing that can befall us.
The Guardian gives it a full 5 stars and says, "Klaus Kinski is genuinely scary as the bloodthirsty Count in Werner Herzog's homage to the 1922 FW Murnau movie". Roger Ebert considered it a Great Movie. Rotten Tomatoes has a critics consensus score of 95%.

22 comments:

  1. This version hilariously scared the daylights out of me. I wrote a blog post about it back in 2010
    Nosferatu and Dracula

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    1. You made a link clickable to a comment! You win the blogging award for the day :)

      Going over to read your post...

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    2. I see what your did there ;) Thanks!

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  2. ...I'm not a fan of things that I can't pronounce.

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  3. I suspect Iris will have something to say about this film. It sure got great reviews.

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    1. and Klaus Kinski. It has Klaus Kinski ;)

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  4. I need to check this out. The preview looks fantastic. Sounds like it got great reviews also.

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    1. It was a genius idea, remaking that old silent.

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  5. I wasn't a fan of the old original version so I'd pass on this one. ;)

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    1. I didn't see the original 'til I was in college, but it made quite an impression.

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    2. I don't know if my comment went through. Blogger said it was broken. However, I wrote that I would be watching this today.

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    3. Thanks for trying again :) I'd rather they didn't remake films, but if they're going to this is the way to do it. I hope you like it.

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  6. I loved this film! Valerie

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    1. As long as they're going to do yet another re-telling of this story I'm glad they did such a good job :)

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  7. I've always wanted to see the original, because it was the first vampire movie, but so far I haven't seen it, nor this remake.

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  8. I did laugh at Tom's comment :)

    Not a film I've seen though!

    All the best Jan

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    1. lol, yes, and especially with silents you're on your own for pronunciation ;)

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  9. One of my favourites!

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