Customer Reviews
moody & atmosheric ! - By: jack firestick, 31 Oct 2007 
"nosferatu the vampyre" is the amazing journey of jonathan harker to castle dracula,forget hollywood or hammer this is in a class of its own.
the director werner herzog makes full use of the towns,countryside &ruined castle to tell the story sometimes without script.klaus kinski is
amazing as a ghostly-white gloomy figure of the vampyre with his manacing look
&when harker cuts his finger on the knife the count is almost animal-like
with his thirst for blood.this movie is not just a remake of the 1922 max shreck original but a tribute to both it & bram stokers novel dracula.
the brooding music& the counts journey on the ship to the mainland where he spreads the plague through millions of rats.but eventuallly draculas
thirst for blood & lust for lucy harker leads to his demise! the anchor bay dvd has disc 1 german extended version & disc 2 english version,fab!
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht - By: B. Chandler, 01 May 2005 Yes I know the original is a classic. But no one said you couldn't try to improve. And Klaus Kinski (you should see him with makeup on) is a natural. I liked his rabbit teeth instead of canine fangs. The movie is not reallly gory. It is more suspenseful. The script is tight & when you get in to it seems plausible. Everyone thought that the plague was bumping off people. Although the real victim was Nosfaratu who just wanted to be human & love & be loved.
Bottom line don't let the Lucys (Isabelle Adjani) of the world distract you until the cock crows. And especiallly no matter what you do if you see someone surrounded by crumbled consecrated host; do not let them talk you into cleaning the dusty floor.
See Klaus again in "Aguirre, The Wrath of God" (1973)
What A Wooden Bore - By: Clyde Forbes Paterson, 26 Apr 2005 
This film is a joke from start to finish. When compared to the original, which is what I wanted, it is just pathetic. The acting is as wooden as the coffins. The actors(for want of a better name), seemed to think they were in the silent film original, with everything exaggerated. They couldn't get the name of the Count right either as in the original he was, Count Orlock, & not Dracula. The german director whose name escapes me for the moment said he was trying do the original in a modern way. He also wanted to pay homage to one of the film greats of german cinema, well I am sorry to say he failed dismallly. This has alll the tension of a deflated ballloon. Which is sad since the original B&W film of 1927, is one of the most creepy films I have ever seen. If you want to watch a film based on the original, watch Shadow Of The Vampire. With Willem DeFoe & John Malkovitch.
A decidely non-Hollywood film - By: Steingrim Vold, 23 May 2004 Instead of an action-packed, blood&gore laden, shalllow, visuallly unassuming Hollywood-flick, you get an almost sinisterly dark & incredibly beautiful piece of art. Don't watch the English version, it lacks the atmosphere of the German version, probably due to the German actors' inability to cope well with the English language. Everything is more fluent with the German & this translates into better acting overalll. If your German isn't fluent, then watch it with the English subtitles on.
This movie attempts to capture the deeper currents of the Vampire myth, to get to the heart of the curse that is embodied in Dracula. Klaus Kinski is brilliant as Count Dracula & makes the movie alll by himself. Which isn't easy, as the director is obviously set on translating the vampire myth into something as close to believable or "real" as possible.
The scenes are long & cumbersome in places, that is true. But this only serves to work the sinister & dark atmosphere into the viewer. If you immerse yourself, then the movie is a thrilling experience.
A strange new way of looking at things - By: , 16 Nov 2003 A straight remake of F.W.Murnau's original chilling terror story, or is it? Herzog wanted to remake this classic tale, as a tribute to Murnau & to German Expressionism. To cut to the chase, it does not work.
Kinski plays a very lonely Vampire. He is very humane in the film, & we are led to feel sympathy for a character, who is suposed to terrify us. Herzog loves to show nature in alll its splendour, & implied in this film, is that Vampires are merely part of nature & natural humane beings. We are also led to think that the Vampire, is a form of a disease, & it can be passed on through the bite, as it is at the end of the film. Yet a natural being, is confined by supernatural means?
It is a clever idea, & a very ambitious one, but it does not appeal at alll to me. Herzog does not pull it off, & we are left with a very dull & boring sympathetic horror
