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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0013131207095
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 09, 2002
Running Time: 107 minutes
Sales Rank: 15464
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: 1979
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Amazon.com:
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 BramStoker'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:  - Nosferatu/Herzog
Quick service.Quality item.5 stars.Not Murnau or Browning or Shrek or Lugosi, but it comes together beautifully.
Rating:  - a great classic
my 15 year old likes horror films so I got him this to see "where it all started." It's been a big hit and he's gotten interested in seeing what other films the director made. Great value too
Rating: - Second-best "Dracula" ever made
The image is good, but not fantastic, probably taken from a master video tape, but without restoration. The black is sometimes too grey without enought contrast, the colors are granular and twinkles a bite the way video (tapes) images use to.
The movie is absolutly great, probably the second-best "Dracula" ever made after the 1958 Hammer film.
Rating: - Outstanding
Werner Herzog is an artist out of his time....and that's a very good thing for lovers of great films. His own great 1979 film Nosferatu, Phantom Of The Night (Nosferatu, Phantom Der Nacht), which was released in America as Nosferatu, The Vampire, is less a classic vampire film and more a Post-Apocalyptic tale, having more in common (especially image-wise) with films like On The Beach, The Quiet Earth, the Vincent Price classic The Last Man On Earth (based on Richard Matheson's I Am Legend), and even ... Read More
Rating: - The collage works
Almost every scene reminded me of something else: not just Murnau. Although there was dialogue, it could easily have been silent, with dialogue cards, since very little of the information was verbal.No one had more than a few lines. Visually, a lot of the shots were 100% Caspar David Friedrich. Adjani from the back, looking out to sea. There was a bit of Coleridge and Doré's Ancient Mariner. A bit of Füssli.A bit of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, Browning if not Grimm. The Woman in White? Was there ... Read More
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