Nosferatu
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Review by squareboat1990

Nosferatu 1922

★★★★★

Watched 15 Dec 2024

The original silent “Nosferatu” was one of the first vampire movies ever made. Since its release, the vampire genre has been diluted with an innumerable number of films. Some are great, some are campy and some are downright awful, but none can match the raw horror of “Nosferatu”. Watching it remains a deeply unsettling experience, as if going back in time and living through the bubonic plague.

F.W. Murnau employs a wide range of innovative cinematic techniques to get under our skin. Consider how potent is Murnau’s use of shadows, crosscutting, sped-up frame rate, film negatives and even stop motion photography. There is the incredible shot of a camera swooping into a closeup of a doomed ship, its crew completely decimated. “Nosferatu” didn’t invent German Expressionism and horror movies, but it defined and perfected them. The silent film medium is perfect for invoking the haunting nature of “Nosferatu”, because primordial horrors needed no words.

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