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Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786305263234
Format: Color, Letterboxed, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 630526323X
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: January 19, 1999
Running Time: 107 minutes
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: 1979
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Editorial Review:
Werner Herzog's remake of F.W. Murnau's original vampire classic is at once a generous tribute to the great German director and a distinctly unique vision by one of cinema's most idiosyncratic filmmakers. Though Murnau's Nosferatu was actually an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Herzog based his film largely on Murnau's conceptions--at times directly quoting Murnau's images--but manages to slip in a few references to Tod Browning's famous version (at one point the vampire comments on the howling wolves: "Listen, the children of the night make their music."). Longtime Herzog star Klaus Kinski is both hideous and melancholy as Nosferatu (renamed Count Dracula in the English language version). As in Murnau's film, he's a veritable gargoyle with his bald pate and sunken eyes, and his talon-like fingernails and two snaggly fangs give him a distinctly feral quality. But Kinski's haunting eyes also communicate a gloomy loneliness--the curse of his undead immortality--and his yearning for Lucy (Isabelle Adjani) becomes a melancholy desire for love. Bruno Ganz's sincere but foolish Jonathan is doomed to the vampire's will and his wife, Lucy, a holy innocent whose deathly pallor and nocturnal visions link her with the ghoulish Nosferatu, becomes the only hope against the monster's plague-like curse. Herzog's dreamy, delicate images and languid pacing create a stunningly beautiful film of otherworldly mood, a faithful reinterpretation that by the conclusion has been shaped into a quintessentially Herzog vision. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Hauntingly beautiful
This is the first Werner Herzog movie I've seen and now I'm interested in seeing his other movies. As a big Dracula fan I can tell you this DVD rates in my top three list of the best Dracula movies. For those who do not like subtitles there are two versions here. I think the German version is superior. Enjoy!
Rating:  - Clever parody full of dark humor, hides its true nature well.
Werner Herzog is one of those self-proclaimed cinematic geniuses who writes, produces, directs, takes the tickets ... all that. Some years ago he undertook to remake the 1922 silent classic, "Nosferatu". The result is the 1979 flick, "Nosferatu the Vampyre". The last word isn't exactly a misspelling: they often spelled it that way in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Nowadays it's an affectation, and this little anachronism ought to give us a clue as to the film's (apparent) true intent. This isn't ... Read More
Rating: - Stunning, disturbing, diabolic: The most creepy and accomplished atmosphere of the curse of Nosferatu.
Werner Herzog's 1979 german remake of the F.W. Murnau's 1922 classic silent-horror epic masterpiece, is also the most gothic, cruel, lavish and intensely dark and creepy revision of the classic novel of Bram Stoker. Klaus Kinski's arrogant, sickly, and tubercular looks gives life to a Nosferatu that tracends the limits of disturbing charisma and maniac-agressiveness, turning the infamous classic character into an eerie and sympathetic vampire, consumed with sadness and melancholy and corroded by ... Read More
Rating:  - Kinski Remake of Silent Classic
This Klaus Kinski remake of the silent classic nosferatu is even better than its source and wasn't a straight ripoff. Instead, the lead vampire was used as a metaphor for the rise of fascism. The nosferatu kindred here do not take their effects on other creatures such as myself. Me am Tzismce, can pass for being normal. Aside from the film's techincal merits, it marked a renewed interest in vampires and other dark culture as the vampire became an icon and began getting coverage in mainstream media. ... Read More
Rating: - * * 1/2 Emotionally-distant and un-atmospheric
I have to largely agree with the review written by "K Jump," who also have this film three stars. Nosferatu seems like it'd be the perfect vehicle for Herzog and Kinski. Actually it is for one of them: Kinski's count is marvelously creepy and undead, the only creepy element in this film, actually. But Herzog's realization, or rather, remake, of the 1922 silent film classic is rather flat. In a brief featurette Herzog says he considers that earlier flick to be the most important German film ever ... Read More
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