NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE — CLASSIC FILM PICK
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Klaus Kinski delivers a delightfully spot-on performance that may be finest of his career as the bloodthirsty vampire Count Dracula who takes advantage of a real estate broker (played by Bruno Ganz).
Naturally, the vampire has to travel in his coffin on a ship infested with plague-carrying rats. Herzog plays with surrealistic compositions that are truly terrifying.
Isabelle Adjani brings her immutable beauty to bear as the broker's fearful wife, fated to suffer Dracula’s blood-hungry bite. "Nosferatu" is filled with delightfully scary touches and recreated camera angles from Murnau's original that add a historic context to this masterpiece of horror from one of the New German Cinema's most prolific and enduring members.
Rated PG. 107 mins.
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