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Apparently there's a new film called "Nosferatu" to be released.
The original film "Nosferatu" was a German silent film made in 1922 by F W Murnau. It's regarded as a classic silent horror film. It's effectively "Dracula" but couldn't be called that due to copyright issues. Max Schreck as Count Orlok/Nosferatu was so convincing that some thought that he really was a vampire.  Nowadays the film has a PG certificate. The new film won't.

El Loro
@El Loro posted:

Apparently there's a new film called "Nosferatu" to be released.
The original film "Nosferatu" was a German silent film made in 1922 by F W Murnau. It's regarded as a classic silent horror film. It's effectively "Dracula" but couldn't be called that due to copyright issues. Max Schreck as Count Orlok/Nosferatu was so convincing that some thought that he really was a vampire.  Nowadays the film has a PG certificate. The new film won't.

Yeah...won't be watching that
I remember not seeing the original through to the end...way too creepy for my liking

slimfern
@slimfern posted:

Yeah...won't be watching that
I remember not seeing the original through to the end...way too creepy for my liking

I thought it very unlikely you would be watching that film, Slim. There was a 1979 film of the same name made by Werner Herzog which was sort of a remake of the 1922 film though the characters had the book's names so Dracula, Harker etc. That was in sound and in colour rather than silent and in black and white. Klaus Kinski was the count in that one and was very creepy. That has been shown more often on television than the 1922 film, so it's possible that you saw that one rather than the 1922 one.

El Loro
@El Loro posted:

I thought it very unlikely you would be watching that film, Slim. There was a 1979 film of the same name made by Werner Herzog which was sort of a remake of the 1922 film though the characters had the book's names so Dracula, Harker etc. That was in sound and in colour rather than silent and in black and white. Klaus Kinski was the count in that one and was very creepy. That has been shown more often on television than the 1922 film, so it's possible that you saw that one rather than the 1922 one.

The one I saw was in Black & White and he had very long pointy fingernails

slimfern