Outstanding pick, Flixy! Remember, this was prior to American Dracula (but is evidently the second foreign Dracula movie). Secondly...I mean c'mon, it's 1922 and Germans made it in the dawn of Cinema if you will. It's from an era where actors were more theater-focused, so the make-up is outstanding, and everything is greatly overacted (for ease of understanding by the audience). There were no real rules to storytelling, other than making it simple (and limits of technology). Can you imagine going to a drive-in theater, with the giant screen, and in a pit in front of the screen, an entire orchestra just blasting out the music? That would be what this was meant for (at least in the old theaters). And the werewolf is actually the most true to history in this movie that I know of...it wasn't until way more recently that werewolves were supposedly giant, and ran around on two legs. In the old days, the stories were that it was just a man that turned into a dog or wolf the size...of a dog or wolf. In this movie, it's just a hyena painted up, but it works! The Carpathians are the mountain ranges. Also it used to be a society, I think. Fast forward 10 years from this movie, and you got sound, with Bela Lugosi underplaying Dracula compared to this movie (thanks to sound), but still overplaying it much like theater (but much lower keyed) compared to today. The other excellent Nosferatu movie is Shadow of the Vampire with John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe, which I highly recommend.

@FlixTalk

Ай бұрын

Well said. Great comment thanks!

Glad you enjoyed the film! Silent films were originally made to be shown with live musical accompaniment. Present-day audiences, who are accustomed to musical cues provided on modern film sound tracks, may take more readily to accompanied silent films than to some of the early sound films, (like the 1931 Dracula), which were basically filmed stage plays. You should definitely add the iconic 1925 version of the Phantom of the Opera to your list, as well as Frankenstein (1931). The latter is an early sound film with minimal musical soundtrack, but I think you'll find it a better watch than Dracula of the same year.

Oh wow! If you weren't already my favorite reactor you would be now. You took a journey into true history. Thank you so much. Now you can see where the inspiration for so much of what we have came from. This isn't just grand daddy, epic or legend. This was the big bang.

"Shadow of the Vampire" (2000)

"Your wife has such a beautiful neck..." Fun Fact: The film is included on the late Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list. Location Location Fact: After 85 years, virtually all of the exteriors are left intact in the cities of Wismar and Lübeck. Lost In Adaptation Fact: The concept in popular culture that sunlight is lethal to vampires is based on this film, which depicted such a death for the very first time in film history. F.W. Murnau knew that he would be sued for borrowing heavily from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula (1897) without permission, so he changed the ending in order that he could say that this film and Dracula (1897) were not exactly the same. However that would not pass the legal smell test. All known prints and negatives were destroyed under the terms of settlement of a lawsuit by Bram Stoker's widow. Thankfully, the film would subsequently surface through second-generation reels in other countries.

"Deliverance is possible by no other means but that an innocent maiden maketh the vampire heed not the first crowing of the" - rooster😮😊😅

Now you have to check out the Werner Herzog remake

@FlixTalk

Ай бұрын

I have it!

@geraldmcboingboing7401

7 күн бұрын

@@FlixTalk F.W. Murnau was the director of this film and now that you've watched one of his masterpieces, there are others waiting: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), Faust (1926), Tabu (1931), etc. He died from injuries he sustained in an automobile accident in Southern California in 1931 and is buried in Germany.

I can't watch Nosferatu now without thinking of Shadow of the Vampire. Both very good films.

finally get to see it! ty :)

Yes!!! You finally reacted to it!!! I will watch your reaction right after I come back from work. Now that you've seen this, I hope you get to see other silent horror classics like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919), The Golem (1920) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925). 😊

@alibabaghanoujtv

Ай бұрын

I haven't seen The Golem, but Caligari and Phantom are chef's kiss.

@jasongoestohell

Ай бұрын

@alibabaghanoujtv Me too! LOL! I actually have The Golem on DVD but it's still sealed in the plastic! Haven't opened it yet! LOL! But I will watch it sometime this week. 😊

i love how u were open to watch this..there is such an Art to these silent movies..another good one is HAXAN 1922 which is spooky and interesting! i saw it on YT and i liked the "unofficial score" which when i researched it, is a LIVE performance by matti bye at the san francisco silent film festival when they screened the film (plus the original score didn't do it for me as the 1st time i saw HAXAN i was instantly in love with the matti bye one as were others. its hypnotic! this video with the cool score is on channel UNITED GLOBAL PICTURES...silent movie about witchcraft and satan haha.. apparently the JUMP SCARE really scared audiences when lucifer pops out from behind a chair...i also study Criminology and found it to be a weird coincidence that a matti bye clip is used on true crime channels like criminally listed. small world

OOOHHH MY GAWD.. THIS FILM STILL ROCKS AND STANDS THE TEST OF TIME. Max Shreck , who plays Count Orlock/Nosferatu was believed to be an actual vampire..They were being racist. But it is why I highly suggest you watch " Shadow of the Vampire" as it plays on that premise... It has Willem Defoe as Max Shreck and is FRIGGIN HILARIOUS!

I LOVE your genuine and sincere reactions, and I hope that you react to other classic and silent movies in the future. Charles Chaplin films (one of the pioneers in the movie business and certainly one of the greatest directors of all time) have stood the test of time. I think you would enjoy many of his masterpieces. He has a lot!: "The Kid", "The Gold Rush", "City Lights", ""Modern Times", "The Great Dictator", "The Circus", "The Pilgrim", "Shoulder Arms", "A Dog's Life"...

@FlixTalk

Ай бұрын

Thank you for the wonderful comment 🙏🏾😊 and yes , I will look into those recommendations for the future watches!

The movie is based on the book by Bram Stoker. It was the first movie to be made from the book but was done without permission from Stoker. The film makers thought they could change the names of the characters and get away with the copywriter infringement. They got sued by Stoker's estate and the judgement came down in the favor of Stoker. As a result, the court ordered that all copies of the movie be destroyed. But not all of the reels were destroyed. Some survived from various places around the world and over time, the film eventually was pieced back together again which is the only reason we are able to enjoy this classic masterpiece today😮😊

My guess on the animal roaming the forest at 15:12 is a striped hyena, it is native to the Caucasus mountain region, in this area the story is set in. They are related to the more well known African hyenas.

@kimmyfreak200

12 күн бұрын

thats what i thought it was too..although he looked different than most hyenas i wasn't sure

To compliment this viewing you should check out the movie Shadow of the Vampire with Willem defoe and Malchovich.👍 Edit. Also i see the new one also has willem defoe potentially as Van Helsing? That must be an easter egg in relation to Shadow of the vampire not many will get.....

see sunrise, a story of 2 humans, or/and the last laugh, by the same filmmaker. both silent classics

There is another version of this movie with a rock soundtrack provided by a group called Type O Negative😮😊

25:25 maybe its the makeup cuz i know for these old movies the males wore eyeliner and stuff...but doesn't that look like if captain jack sparrow didn't do his eye liner as thick, and didn't have dreads...lol looks a little like a younger johnny depp

Guys, not this upload again. The music is shifted because it was timed for a different release also the tinting is missing and picture quality isn't the greatest. Take the time to find better one, there are plenty on YT. Nosferatu deserves that... My recommendation: find the one with the score by James Bernard.

I would like to say that the version you where watching is not propperly synced i have watched this movie a million times and the music is not correct it is not propperly aligned. The most easy way to catch it is the clock in act 2 it dings and there is a sound there but the sound plays later. You probably watched the so called 4k restored version on youtube wich i quickly realized was of sync

@FlixTalk

8 күн бұрын

Ok

The remake will be trash. I didn't even care for the 1979 version, but a remake in 2024 is almost guaranteed to be a trash fire. There is only one Nosferatu and you just watched it.

@FlixTalk

Ай бұрын

I am honestly hope the new ones nails it..I'm being optimistic