1:04 is such a perfect, horrifying shot. Imagine, you're alone in a gigantic, gothic castle. You suspect there is something sinister about the Count that owns it. You crack open your door, just a hair's width to peek out, and you see that staring right back at you.
Cause it's poorly made. It skips some parts of a normal film with its random editing. This is what makes it scary, it's meant to make the viewers imagine on their own
@@morbster6520 How is it poorly made? This movie was a masterpiece when it came out and has been referenced in newer shows and movies just like "A Trip to the Moon"
@@MidnightTrepanationClub its goofy, stop forcing yourself to like it you know it looks horrible, just because something is old doesnt mean its good. stop being blinded by your nostalgia.
The moment when he looked throught the door and saw Nosferatu standing there, without moving, far away but watching him directly and menacingly like a predator stalking prey... that was really creepy
Not enough people are talking about the music. It starts so lovely and hopeful, then, at soon as he grabs the book, it changes into a more mysterious, progressively darker tone, to end up absolutely unnerving and disturbing. An absolutely amazing work.
That one note held from 1:08 to 1:32…. You feel the tension and want to get away from it just like the man wants to get away from Nosferatu. Wonderfully done.
I love how Nosferatu standing in the hallway gives off the same eerie feeling as the monsters in analog horror today. Something about a grotesque figure standing motionless down a dark hallway is always going to scare the shit out of a person. Some things never change
Nosferatu drank blood from so many people that he became the most powerful person on this Planet. But he still felt something was amiss. He wanted to feel powerful too. So he wanted to earn a lot of money so that he could enjoy the finer things in life. He drained out some of his blood and sold it to local street racers. They stored it in a cylinders and hooked it to their engine intake. The moment Nosferatu's blood mixed with fuel. It increased the engine's power by several fold. That blood is now called NOS.
For those who don’t understand why it’s great - this a very huge leap for filming: lighting, music composing, originality (invention of horrors as we know them), camera settings. Basically we should thank this movie for other movies
This scene always scared and bothered me, not just because of Nosferatu himself, but because of the way the man reacts to him. The horror is palpable, and he deals with it by looking away or covering himself with blankets, which is the exact way a child would act in such a situation. It's that kind of fear that causes regression, that pulls your mind into infant mode because it's too overwhelming to deal with in a rational way.
When I first saw this I was so young and I thought this movie was silly. Now, though? While it still doesn’t exactly shock me to my core because it’s a movie, if it happened in real life I might think differently. If a vampire looked at me like that in real life this might be my reaction. It’s the potential that scares me now more than the circumstances of the movie. It’s still a fantastic movie, ESPECIALLY for its time. Side note: I’m the same kind of person who thinks Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds is funny. The story by Daphne Du Morier is much more terrifying in my opinion. I’m not exactly a reliable source of what most people think is scary.
@@seasonsstarsstudios if any horror movie villain came at you, you would get scared whether it be a chainsaw wielding cannibal, a demon that kills in your own dreams,a masked figure that stalks you, and stabs with an oversized kitchen knife. Point being any horror character would scare you to death.
@@dooms_gate don’t pin your insecurities on me. I’m not a child. Vampires don’t exist. Neither does Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Michael Meyers - you get the picture. It’s called “realizing these things are fiction”. Horror movies are not documentaries. Learn the difference before you start berating me for your issues.
@@seasonsstarsstudios what im trying to say is any horror character in real life would scare you, i know they aren't real, but your making it seem like i think they are real which they are not.
Here’s some cool facts: Nosferatu, a German silent film released in 1922, is basically a re-telling of the 1897 Bram Stoker novel, Dracula. But in order to avoid copyright, the creators of Nosferatu changed the name “Count Dracula” to “Count Orlok”, and changed the term “vampire” to “nosferatu”. Unfortunately, those changes weren’t enough to avoid being sued for copyright infringement by Stoker’s heirs. The court ruled all of the copies to be destroyed. However, a couple copies survived, and now Nosferatu is known an influential masterpiece :D
@@maryray4960not really. They quite literally made a film that is fairly book accurate with a few names and plot points shifted around only 30 years after the books release and 10 years after Bram Stokers death. It's an iconic movie, but it's also early filmmaking sleaze stealing ideas for profit
I love older horror films. They aren’t too cheesy and aren’t filled with so much action and don’t just rely on lame jumpscares. Instead they focus on the feeling of terror and suspense. Like The Shining or The Thing which were both great movies and still scare the crap out of me
The way this scene is set up cinematically and story wise is actually still pretty good and is still somewhat what we see today even. Seeing Nosferatu become bigger and bigger as he approaches the door was a really cool and a smart idea
@@Chugargonfan yes it’s obvious logic but it’s the shot that the camera took as he was walking towards the door getting bigger and bigger my boy. That’s what I’m talking about to put it simply. that was a cool visual idea.
I am shocked that a movie made 100 years ago can still be scarier than most modern day horror movies. Edit (9/10/2023): I know it isn't scary to everyone, for me this scares me more than most horror movies these days (though there have been some good ones these days) and you are all commenting the same Damm reply just with done sort of variation to it, it's not funny.
Agreed. It's subtle yet so effective. Even though this film is outdated on the "scare" meter that scare setup can be seen all throughout our films these days. It immediately reminded me of the zombie movie 28 days later where the actor wakes up and sees the zombies in the church. And they're just staring
I remember watching this around Halloween 1972. I was 8 years old. It was really late at night. Nothing scarier than an empty house with only your sleeping grandmother upstairs closing in on midnight. To this day Nosferatu is the one horror movie that can chill my blood. But the fact that Max schreck and I share the same birthday makes it that much more special. Thank you Max for scaring the crap out of me at such a young age
I first saw this on a shite 8mm highly-condensed 5-6 minute single reel print I borrowed from my public library almost 50 years ago, when I was 10. I haven't forgotten a single frame of it ever since. This was very obscure back then; it had been long-forgotten by almost everyone except film historians and a very small cult of horror cinephiles. It holds the same primitive power over me now as it did then. Schreck's Nosferatu was indelible...Creepy, mysterious, unearthly and unknowable.
@@connorpusey5912 Yessir. There are some pretty cool things about being alive at this moment in history...High-resolution, super-high-fidelity digital reproduction is one; being able to quickly and conveniently communicate and share cool stuff is another. Man, when I was a kid, this technology wasn't even a science fiction dream yet!
Are you f'king kidding me? Are you for real? What is horror in this? I'm not saying this is bad movie, according to its time it's good, but you are scared of this movie in this time? Yo i think you. Have mental problems, go get some help bro
Such a realistic depiction of a human surrounded by something supernatural - hides under the blanket. Unlike in movies these days where the guys would venture into the woods screaming "who's there?"😆😆
Kids in 2010s & 2020s: A Nosferatu from Slendrina: The Forest, Slendrina X and Granny Chapter Two Kids in 2000s: A Nosferatu from SpongeBob Squarepants Kids in 1920s:
Yep & me watching the original on VHS 📼 in the 90's with no sound or lights whatsoever at 3am & then passing it down to u gen Z kids like he's a actual cryptic monster 😂
@@hassanx9423 people today are a lot more desensitised to violence and horror etc. I’m pretty sure people would faint and have heart attacks watching The Exorcist(1973) at the cinema.
@@blazer7731 people were in general more violent in the past . Todays world people have riots over gender and homosexuality and small things that shouldn’t even be discussed about.
I remember discovering this film when I went on a silent film binge after seeing the Lon Chaney Phantom of the Opera. I dropped my popcorn and yelled OH MY GOD THIS IS WHAT SPONGEBOB WAS REFERENCING
Considering this movie is from 1922 I think that they did a good job creating the horror atmosphere. I believe it's mostly thanks to the abstract music and the style in which this film was made in. I think that the film director didn't want to tell a story but he was more focused on the emotions and perceptions which I think he did well.
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night and it’s 3:00 AM and you open your bedroom door and see this within a distance in your dark hallway with the moonlight shining at him 1:04
I don't know why, but this film never scared me. I actually got bored. I know I'm the only person in the universe to think this, I'm sure of it, but the film just didn't scare me, especially with how it's been built up.
A movie that easily could’ve been lost forever after orders of having film reels to be destroyed, it’s miraculous that it survived all of these years. I’m happy the movie had survived, because not only was this during a time films were lost forever but it was an influence for horror movies to come. Brilliant film.
Fun Fact: Nosferatu's appearance was actually not in the script, he really appeared at that exact moment and the actor was so caught off guard that he tried to hide under a blanket, truly these were great moments of cinema.
@@fingersmcoy Fun fact: You didn't get the joke! You did not get the joke. It flew right over your head. Just look up. The joke flying there? Jup, that's the joke you didn't get.
@@therealblacktronempire1987 saying fun fact before your rant is not only unimaginative, but also makes you sound like a retard. Look in the mirror. You will be looking at a retard
I've watched most modern horror movies and man they just lack this beauty. How the music builds and swells, the fear being potrayed and how he slowly approaches. Now this is how you build tension and unnerve your audience. Absolutely stunning!
have you seen the entire movie? if not, by all means do so. it's really good, and really scary. :) also check out Haxan (1922) and Faust (1926), both also superb. :)
I've felt the reason why this is terrifying it is because of the actor who portrayed Nosferatu, Max Schreck, he is very scary in portraying the character and that's what it tried to embody as a 6'3 vampire and with all it's features, it made it seem like "he will always be Nosferatu, he will always be the only one to only play the role of that character".
Check out 'Shadow of the vampire' if you haven't seen it. It's a fictitious account of the making of 'Nosferatu' starring Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck who plays the vampire, but is actually a real vampire preying on the cast and crew. It's the perfect mix of horror and comedy.
The wide shot of him just standing there in the distance is creepy as hell. Nowadays no one probably finds it scary from watching it on their phones, but imagine being in the theater back in 1922, with the symphonic orchestra playing in the back and setting the atmosphere.
I almost never watch movies. Either I get bored or distracted and just stop watching. I remember one day, when I was a teen, after maybe months of not watching any video longer than 40 mins I said, out of nowhere, "I want to watch a vampire movie, but it needs to be a very old one" and I found nosferatu and watched it in one sitting. I love how, without amazing special effects to delegate so much to post production, they were able to make this amazing scene. I'm a huge fan of this movie.
Yeah, agreed. If you haven't seen it, check out Jack Palance's Dracula in the 1974 made-for-TV movie...He plays him as this ancient, primal, snarling, ferocious beast who may have once had earthly passions and sentiments but now -- as an immortal demi-god among mortals -- is mostly just bitter, tired and angry at having to put up with weak humans. A hunter bored of his lame quarry.
This movie proves that you don’t need CGI, dialogue, or special props to produce a terrifying movie. In my opinion, silent films in general are very underrated.
Totally agree, it is the scariest scene of a landmark movie. The stroke of the bells at midnight. The sight of the Count unmasked. And no help to be found. It's worth the comparison to look again at Werner Herzog's remake of Nosferatu, an obvious labor of love for him. His version of this scene takes the horror and hopelessness even higher, as we hear the clock strike midnight, while we get to see and hear the slow, steady and deliberate steps taken by Count Orlok down the dark hallway and into Harker's room. Really, landmark film making from both Murnau AND Herzog.
The music,lighting, timing are all perfect. In a time when everything is over the top cgi, or jump scare slashers. Something as subtle as this is quite truly terrifying.
Fuck are you talking about? This is 1922 before CGI, it wasn't subtle, its just they didnt have the tech to make any sounds except for music. There also weren't slashers then.
This is and will remain my favorite villain shot of any movie. Heck, I like to think that this movie literally invented the villain shot because it’s so iconic. Just something about holding a camera against an actor staying stiff and still for such a prolonged period of time is naturally unsettling.
![Nosferatu (1922) [Silent Movie]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/FC6jFoYm3xs/mqdefault.jpg)
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This aint scary, but I am 2000s kiddo and I am so blunt to everything. IDK
Imagine what would happen if Nosferatu sank his fangs into a swollen fart? 😳
@@exorevbivoevturque idk I am a 2007 kid and idk tho this was scary because I thought there would be a jumpscare lol
80 years later, he flickered the lights on SpongeBob
😂😂😂
Bro doesn't know how to do math 💀
@@soulassassin0g he's not wrong. spongebob nosferatu aired in 2002.
@@soulassassin0gbro thought he sounded smart
@@CyberPsyccbro what?💀
Happy 100 years to Nosferatu. If it wasn’t for that one episode of SpongeBob, I would’ve never been introduced to the legendary character. 🤣💯
Same here
Same
Wait! If that was you on the phone and you on the bus, then who was flickering the lights?
@@CapPhantom Nosferatu!
same
I remember watching this back in 1922. This never gets old so do we.
🤣🤣
You weren't born yet back then, stupid🤐
Hah!!!!! Awesome comment!🤣🤣😉😉
Underrated comment!
nice being 100 years old ay?
He’s just standing there… menacingly!!
The maniac!
Honestly that scene isnt even that scary to me the first time i watched it😊
Jonathan Greenblatt is one spooky guy.
@@1neAdam12all Jews are
Standing so perfectly still, almost invisible
1:04 is such a perfect, horrifying shot. Imagine, you're alone in a gigantic, gothic castle. You suspect there is something sinister about the Count that owns it. You crack open your door, just a hair's width to peek out, and you see that staring right back at you.
He's practically saying *"I'm going to shit yourself"* Just by standing there
*MENACINGLY*
Ukêee
I wanna know who played the vampire guy
@@HowardHank he was played by a German actor called Max Schreck
Exactly my thought
Literally why did they put him in spongebob this guy gave me nightmares as a kid
Because they thought 80 years later he wouldn't be scary anymore.
@@samthetank6762 they were wrong
That's when you know this is a horror masterpiece, people are still scared by this even its been a hundred years
I'm even still scared of this
@@samthetank6762 same
but who was flickering the lights?
"Nosferatu." (smiles)
😂😂😂😂
Nosferatu 😀
nosferatu can do shit with his mind
Nosferatuuu
1:02 if this were filmed today, it would be a jump scare with loud screeching music
and yet it's still unsettling and creepy
Although I agree with you, I'd say the strings in this scene are the definition of "loud screeching music"
Correct, and it would ruin everything
Yeah and we have watched like 1000s of them and they're not scary now
@@pwnthrower The music in this was not put in 1922, i have another version on dvd where it is a calm violin all the way through
To think this movie could've been lost forever. It's quite a miracle we still have it intact, and whole.
Or complete, and in total.
It's engraved in people's minds now, all thanks to Spongebob
@@theangryvoltorb8638 I don't watch that show, so I knew about this movie from other sources.
@@lulystalgianature2968 ok hipster 🤣
@@lulystalgianature2968 same.
I love how he manages to be scarier than most horror films by just standing there
Meanacingly
Cause it's poorly made. It skips some parts of a normal film with its random editing. This is what makes it scary, it's meant to make the viewers imagine on their own
@@morbster6520 How is it poorly made? This movie was a masterpiece when it came out and has been referenced in newer shows and movies just like "A Trip to the Moon"
@@MidnightTrepanationClub its goofy, stop forcing yourself to like it you know it looks horrible, just because something is old doesnt mean its good. stop being blinded by your nostalgia.
@@zwicky1818 it was made 100 years ago so
Imagine how freaky and scary this was for audiences BACK in 1922.. 😂
Imagine he's in your house at 3 am.
@@TakeCareOfYourself24434 Imagine he's behind you, right now.
@@TakeCareOfYourself24434 he will get shot
Imagine if he's grabbing your pickle in your pants 🥒
@@TakeCareOfYourself24434 calling nosferatu at 3 am (gone wrong)
1:57 how I pull up to function
real
Momy i poeps
The moment when he looked throught the door and saw Nosferatu standing there, without moving, far away but watching him directly and menacingly like a predator stalking prey... that was really creepy
It looks like he's cross-eyed though. Which kinda makes it funny.
He’s just standing there…menacingly!
GET OUT OF THERE SPONGEBOB!
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That's something straight out of a nightmare.
Not enough people are talking about the music. It starts so lovely and hopeful, then, at soon as he grabs the book, it changes into a more mysterious, progressively darker tone, to end up absolutely unnerving and disturbing. An absolutely amazing work.
It’s a pity it’s being played with such a shitty fake strings sound though
Kind of like your mom's box
That one note held from 1:08 to 1:32…. You feel the tension and want to get away from it just like the man wants to get away from Nosferatu. Wonderfully done.
@@shrewdthewise2840 Misplaced, it clearly show that you dont know anything about note.
@@Ian-uu3dz yes and it's very loud and obnoxious.
You don’t need jump scares to be scary. You need atmosphere building and context.
Hitchcock, used your fear as a special effects... I knew someone who wore this on Halloween 🎃 . Got the mask and trenchcoat... very scarry indeed...
Exactly. The scariest movies arent scary just because of their jumpscares; its because of the mood at atmosphere they have
The story and the suspense are enough to scare you.
I feel like modern horror is so wrapped up and jump scares and gore that they forgot the basics.
@@ryanwalker1593 Some newer movies do a nice job. I thought The VVitch was fantastic.
@@SLURM187 don’t forget about the original “The Thing”
I love how Nosferatu standing in the hallway gives off the same eerie feeling as the monsters in analog horror today. Something about a grotesque figure standing motionless down a dark hallway is always going to scare the shit out of a person. Some things never change
Father of analog horro?
only 1920s kids will understand the hype when this movie came out ❤🔥
So your like a 100 years old?
1920s ghosts not kids bro
Maybe if it will be up for remake, you have a chance to be casted
@@ProfessorBFR yeah i pretty much look exactly like him i think i could do it 😼
@@ProfessorBFR I mean look at Tony Bennet
1:03 is pretty creepy, he just stands there unmoving covered in shadows. But then who was flicking the lights.
He's just standing there....MENACINGLY!
@@NukePower217 😂😂😂😂😂
@@NukePower217 I was about to say that.
You haven't heard of paranormal activity
@@NukePower217 LOLLLL
This film is nearly 100 years and scarier than a lot of modern horror films
No
made in 1922 , and looks 10 times better then average video of ufo or any paranormal thing
@@nikolygtx8848 yes it is but it was not scary
@@jjh5844 Pretty creepy, but yeah, not that scary.
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1:40 me getting out of my room 2 hours after the guests have arrived during which I gathered enough patience to make social interactions with them
1:54 This guy is my idol. He literally hid under blanket because of the monster lmao
Hahaha
Exactly, according to the rules of monsters he should be fine. Just don't let any appendages dangle out of the blanket.
Blanket is anti-monsters
just like my kid
Nosferatu : K he's under a fckin blanket , i can do nothing but to attack him later :)))
Nosferatu drank blood from so many people that he became the most powerful person on this Planet. But he still felt something was amiss. He wanted to feel powerful too. So he wanted to earn a lot of money so that he could enjoy the finer things in life. He drained out some of his blood and sold it to local street racers. They stored it in a cylinders and hooked it to their engine intake. The moment Nosferatu's blood mixed with fuel. It increased the engine's power by several fold. That blood is now called NOS.
Brilliant
I just got a contact high
Underrated :D
"I am so scared right now!" - Jessie.
I don't get it why RUclips recommend me this but hey, all I can say is
he just stand there
MENACINGLY
For those who don’t understand why it’s great - this a very huge leap for filming: lighting, music composing, originality (invention of horrors as we know them), camera settings. Basically we should thank this movie for other movies
The lighting is truly incredible
thank you for explaining why it’s scary it really made me piss myself 200% more thanks
Murnau was a genius
Lame
@@automatedimagination Bro you had your mom and dad sub to you your opinion is invalid
I'm here after the Nosferatu trailer
Yesferatu 😂😅
LMFAO yes @@andreichivu7653
Thank you Stephen Hillenburg, for introducing an entire generation to Nosferatu, and inadvertently, the horror genre as a whole.
Yep,could not take this seriously cuz i watched that spongebob episode years ago
...and he introduced us to Toulouse Lautrec
14
He didn’t do that but okay
Rest in peace
This scene always scared and bothered me, not just because of Nosferatu himself, but because of the way the man reacts to him. The horror is palpable, and he deals with it by looking away or covering himself with blankets, which is the exact way a child would act in such a situation. It's that kind of fear that causes regression, that pulls your mind into infant mode because it's too overwhelming to deal with in a rational way.
When I first saw this I was so young and I thought this movie was silly. Now, though? While it still doesn’t exactly shock me to my core because it’s a movie, if it happened in real life I might think differently. If a vampire looked at me like that in real life this might be my reaction. It’s the potential that scares me now more than the circumstances of the movie. It’s still a fantastic movie, ESPECIALLY for its time. Side note: I’m the same kind of person who thinks Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds is funny. The story by Daphne Du Morier is much more terrifying in my opinion. I’m not exactly a reliable source of what most people think is scary.
@@seasonsstarsstudios if any horror movie villain came at you, you would get scared whether it be a chainsaw wielding cannibal, a demon that kills in your own dreams,a masked figure that stalks you, and stabs with an oversized kitchen knife. Point being any horror character would scare you to death.
@@dooms_gate don’t pin your insecurities on me. I’m not a child. Vampires don’t exist. Neither does Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Michael Meyers - you get the picture. It’s called “realizing these things are fiction”. Horror movies are not documentaries. Learn the difference before you start berating me for your issues.
@@seasonsstarsstudios what im trying to say is any horror character in real life would scare you, i know they aren't real, but your making it seem like i think they are real which they are not.
@@seasonsstarsstudiosSays the one with obvious insecurities lol
This is indeed creepy. That sense of being trapped in there. I can feel it watching this!
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@@imeanitsamixofthings4986 Google gives a few results. Mostly requests from fans to port it on Switch. It looks like it hasn't been done yet.
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This commentor is 100 years old I guess.....
102 years later and this movie is finally getting a remake
do you really not know that it has already been remade before by Werner Herzog?
@@jsuisdetrop I didn’t, must have not been popular
@@ChaoticChief117 Herzog's remake is excellent
So this is the guy who keeps flickering the lights on and off and scaring my boy SpongeBob and Squidward
The nerve
@@youtubethefirst4003(photo of an entire human nervous system)
@@dominicfox101 I wanna yank the spinal cord
i can’t take this movie seriously after the SpongeBob bit 😂 I remember as a child
I just watched that episode yesterday, actually, which is probably why I'm here. Damn phones hear everything.
Here’s some cool facts: Nosferatu, a German silent film released in 1922, is basically a re-telling of the 1897 Bram Stoker novel, Dracula. But in order to avoid copyright, the creators of Nosferatu changed the name “Count Dracula” to “Count Orlok”, and changed the term “vampire” to “nosferatu”.
Unfortunately, those changes weren’t enough to avoid being sued for copyright infringement by Stoker’s heirs. The court ruled all of the copies to be destroyed.
However, a couple copies survived, and now Nosferatu is known an influential masterpiece :D
Destroyed?! Bit harsh guys.
@@maryray4960 yep, “destroyed” because the copies (or most) were physically eliminated from existence
@@Howlingburd19 My point was that was a bit harsh on their part.
Destroy my hole daddy
@@maryray4960not really. They quite literally made a film that is fairly book accurate with a few names and plot points shifted around only 30 years after the books release and 10 years after Bram Stokers death. It's an iconic movie, but it's also early filmmaking sleaze stealing ideas for profit
1:05 Me entering the classroom with 2 hours of sleep and no caffeine.
Thank you so much... This comment made it funnier
Im dead lol 💀
More like 1:40
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What makes this so terrifying us theres no sound other than the music and the way count orlock walks searching for the man is so iconic
I love older horror films. They aren’t too cheesy and aren’t filled with so much action and don’t just rely on lame jumpscares. Instead they focus on the feeling of terror and suspense. Like The Shining or The Thing which were both great movies and still scare the crap out of me
You should check out The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari if you haven't seen it yet. Classic psychological horror.
Eraserhead
You can also check ringu 1 and 2 ( the original Japanese version of the ring)
As to recent horror films, the first paranormal activity was pretty good
did you just say this wasn’t cheesy
The way this scene is set up cinematically and story wise is actually still pretty good and is still somewhat what we see today even. Seeing Nosferatu become bigger and bigger as he approaches the door was a really cool and a smart idea
Nosferstu getting bigger is physics
@@Chugargonfan yes it’s obvious logic but it’s the shot that the camera took as he was walking towards the door getting bigger and bigger my boy.
That’s what I’m talking about to put it simply. that was a cool visual idea.
@@Spider-Complexion hehe I know. Just wanted to make the joke.
@@Spider-Complexion it seems like they just recorded him walking towards the door. Idk how else they were supposed to shoot it
@@JadedParanoia they didnt have to show him walking up at all. thats a creative decision and it was a good one because it builds feelings of dread
That SpongeBob episode was nightmare fuel
@nemo pouncey damn lol
@nemo pouncey I was like 5 💀
@nemo pouncey bruh it was so unexpected
The fact that everyone involved in making this movie is now dead is crazy to think about
I am shocked that a movie made 100 years ago can still be scarier than most modern day horror movies.
Edit (9/10/2023): I know it isn't scary to everyone, for me this scares me more than most horror movies these days (though there have been some good ones these days) and you are all commenting the same Damm reply just with done sort of variation to it, it's not funny.
Yep most Modern day horror films aren't even that good
Not scary at all but ok.
Maybe scary for it’s time but definitely not scarier than most modern horror movies lol
Scary isn't the right word, I'd say creepy
Modern horror isn't scary or creepy
Cap
1:03 Me standing in my dark room at night wondering how I managed to do nothing for the entire day.
Agreed. It's subtle yet so effective. Even though this film is outdated on the "scare" meter that scare setup can be seen all throughout our films these days. It immediately reminded me of the zombie movie 28 days later where the actor wakes up and sees the zombies in the church. And they're just staring
Real
😹
STOOOP
I remember watching this around Halloween 1972. I was 8 years old. It was really late at night. Nothing scarier than an empty house with only your sleeping grandmother upstairs closing in on midnight. To this day Nosferatu is the one horror movie that can chill my blood. But the fact that Max schreck and I share the same birthday makes it that much more special. Thank you Max for scaring the crap out of me at such a young age
why th are you on yt
@@KrispDreamer DILLIGAFF
@@danielorlando8172 man, how do you even know what diligaf means
@@shamim1733 you can't be serious
@@danielorlando8172 you're older than a modern day vampire
Fact, you did not search for this
I first saw this on a shite 8mm highly-condensed 5-6 minute single reel print I borrowed from my public library almost 50 years ago, when I was 10. I haven't forgotten a single frame of it ever since. This was very obscure back then; it had been long-forgotten by almost everyone except film historians and a very small cult of horror cinephiles. It holds the same primitive power over me now as it did then. Schreck's Nosferatu was indelible...Creepy, mysterious, unearthly and unknowable.
I like your story - thank you for sharing that. I can't imagine how scary it was for people back then when it still creeps the shit out of me now...😵
And now we have great reconstructions/restorations of this film on Blu-Ray and DVD, so it’s not too obscure anymore.
@@connorpusey5912 Yessir. There are some pretty cool things about being alive at this moment in history...High-resolution, super-high-fidelity digital reproduction is one; being able to quickly and conveniently communicate and share cool stuff is another. Man, when I was a kid, this technology wasn't even a science fiction dream yet!
@@marklipson
Yes it’s amazing and so convenient. I have the restored Kino Blu-Ray of this movie. Very creepy to this day.
shrek?????????
Gives me goosebumps every single time. This night I won’t sleep, again.
Gives me a great high everytime I see this man of the hour 🙌 ❤ 👏
It makes me lmao every time.😂this dork just standing at the end of the road. then walks up to his house looking at him like a crackhead.
I think he's joking. I also think the character of the scary dude is actually real. I mean who the hell know what crazy shit was going on back then?
Are you f'king kidding me? Are you for real? What is horror in this? I'm not saying this is bad movie, according to its time it's good, but you are scared of this movie in this time? Yo i think you. Have mental problems, go get some help bro
Nosferatu is more like an old friend than actually a scary character.
Such a realistic depiction of a human surrounded by something supernatural - hides under the blanket. Unlike in movies these days where the guys would venture into the woods screaming "who's there?"😆😆
Enthiran 2 (Robo 2) Pakshirajan😅
Yea if I saw a demon coming towards my room as an adult I would definitely hide under my covers
Kids in 2010s & 2020s: A Nosferatu from Slendrina: The Forest, Slendrina X and Granny Chapter Two
Kids in 2000s: A Nosferatu from SpongeBob Squarepants
Kids in 1920s:
Yep & me watching the original on VHS 📼 in the 90's with no sound or lights whatsoever at 3am & then passing it down to u gen Z kids like he's a actual cryptic monster 😂
Ah, slendrina and granny, a man of culture
Wait, if that was you on the phone and you on the bus then who was flickering the lights?
Nosferatu
@@samthetank6762 😄
Lmao
Nosferatu?
The light flickerers.
01:54 I love how the music is in sync with him hiding in the blanket, really shows the effort to little details.
I also love the string bass's little tune during that, it kind of warns the viewer of the danger that was about to come upon him
It is not the original music and this music is made on a computer, with fake strings and 😂
I cant imagine how scary this movie must have been at that time
People weren’t such wimps back then like now
@@hassanx9423 they'd have a heart attack if we show them today's movies thou
@@hassanx9423 people today are a lot more desensitised to violence and horror etc. I’m pretty sure people would faint and have heart attacks watching The Exorcist(1973) at the cinema.
@@lunariousmoon todays movies with terrible story line with a few jump scares thrown in? Nah they wouldn’t
@@blazer7731 people were in general more violent in the past . Todays world people have riots over gender and homosexuality and small things that shouldn’t even be discussed about.
I remember discovering this film when I went on a silent film binge after seeing the Lon Chaney Phantom of the Opera. I dropped my popcorn and yelled OH MY GOD THIS IS WHAT SPONGEBOB WAS REFERENCING
Nosferatu!!! Lol
Considering this movie is from 1922 I think that they did a good job creating the horror atmosphere. I believe it's mostly thanks to the abstract music and the style in which this film was made in. I think that the film director didn't want to tell a story but he was more focused on the emotions and perceptions which I think he did well.
years ago people also knew how to do things right
The music wasn't originally part of the movie because it was a SILENT movie.
The shot at 1:04 is terrifying, where he’s not even the shots focus but you can still see him lurking in the background
Look up German expressionism
Didn't read, lol.
1:03 that first shot of Nosferatu standing at a distance is spine chilling. The face gives me serious uncanny valley vibes.
Thank you, SpongeBoy, me Bob, for introducing me to an iconic horror classic.
me Bob im dead 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Bro this movies over 102 years old and it’s still scary
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night and it’s 3:00 AM and you open your bedroom door and see this within a distance in your dark hallway with the moonlight shining at him 1:04
I’m gonna fucking kill myself if that happens
@@Demonetized-And-Depressed Fucking same
Grandma? That u?
He looks like he's terrified of me
Omg don’t
Mom: Go out and play with the kid outside.
The kid waiting outside: 1:04
😂😂😂
Imagine if the kid outside looked just like him lol
Mom: why don’t you go play with the neighbor’s son?
The neighbor’s son:
😂😂😂😂 you funny as hell for that one 💯✌🏾
@@williejackson6905don't die as a disbeliever
Happy 100th anniversary to this horror classic!
no jumpscare , no special effects just good acting and dark atmosphere
Instead of a loud jumpscare this movie gives me a chill that just doesn't go away. No matter how many times I see 1:40 I always feel unnerved.
Yup creep factor is an all time high throughout the film.
Liar. You're laughing. Try the movie "Come and See".
I don't know why, but this film never scared me. I actually got bored.
I know I'm the only person in the universe to think this, I'm sure of it, but the film just didn't scare me, especially with how it's been built up.
@@bryanegelhoffsanimationtec257 same. This isn’t scary at all even after I read the comments and watched again.
Loud jumpscares didn't exist at the time. First jumpscare dates back to 1942 with the movie called Cat People.
A movie that easily could’ve been lost forever after orders of having film reels to be destroyed, it’s miraculous that it survived all of these years. I’m happy the movie had survived, because not only was this during a time films were lost forever but it was an influence for horror movies to come. Brilliant film.
1:58 And then he starts flickering the lights
“Nosferatu!”
@@TheMightyHugoman (smiles)
Phasmophobia?
Crazy how this was made 102 years ago, and everyone involved innits creation and alive during that time are long gone
Fun Fact: Nosferatu's appearance was actually not in the script, he really appeared at that exact moment and the actor was so caught off guard that he tried to hide under a blanket, truly these were great moments of cinema.
Sounds like a movie myth to me.
@@maltehenryk1409 nah Nosferatu really blessed us
that is not believable at all
@@fingersmcoy Fun fact: You didn't get the joke! You did not get the joke. It flew right over your head. Just look up. The joke flying there? Jup, that's the joke you didn't get.
@@therealblacktronempire1987 saying fun fact before your rant is not only unimaginative, but also makes you sound like a retard. Look in the mirror. You will be looking at a retard
0:48 that skeleton on the clock is kind of cute. He's just a silly little guy.
I've watched most modern horror movies and man they just lack this beauty. How the music builds and swells, the fear being potrayed and how he slowly approaches. Now this is how you build tension and unnerve your audience. Absolutely stunning!
have you seen the entire movie? if not, by all means do so. it's really good, and really scary. :)
also check out Haxan (1922) and Faust (1926), both also superb. :)
Robert Eggers honoring this scene brought me here
He did such a brilliant job with it. Cannot wait for this film
I've felt the reason why this is terrifying it is because of the actor who portrayed Nosferatu, Max Schreck, he is very scary in portraying the character and that's what it tried to embody as a 6'3 vampire and with all it's features, it made it seem like "he will always be Nosferatu, he will always be the only one to only play the role of that character".
Check out 'Shadow of the vampire' if you haven't seen it. It's a fictitious account of the making of 'Nosferatu' starring Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck who plays the vampire, but is actually a real vampire preying on the cast and crew. It's the perfect mix of horror and comedy.
lmfao shrek
A century old and still a marvelous movie!
"So if that you was you on the phone, and you on the bus... who was turning off the lights?"
"Nosferatu..."🤣🤣🤣
The wide shot of him just standing there in the distance is creepy as hell. Nowadays no one probably finds it scary from watching it on their phones, but imagine being in the theater back in 1922, with the symphonic orchestra playing in the back and setting the atmosphere.
I almost never watch movies. Either I get bored or distracted and just stop watching. I remember one day, when I was a teen, after maybe months of not watching any video longer than 40 mins I said, out of nowhere, "I want to watch a vampire movie, but it needs to be a very old one" and I found nosferatu and watched it in one sitting. I love how, without amazing special effects to delegate so much to post production, they were able to make this amazing scene. I'm a huge fan of this movie.
I probably would have gone my whole life without knowing this guy exists if it weren't for Spongebob.
He's just standing there...
MENACINGLY!!!!!!!!!!!
😂😂😂😂😂
RUN FOR IT SPONGEBOB!
I miss vampires that looked like this.
Best Vampiric character ever, period. 🦇🧛🏻♂️🌑
Yeah, agreed. If you haven't seen it, check out Jack Palance's Dracula in the 1974 made-for-TV movie...He plays him as this ancient, primal, snarling, ferocious beast who may have once had earthly passions and sentiments but now -- as an immortal demi-god among mortals -- is mostly just bitter, tired and angry at having to put up with weak humans. A hunter bored of his lame quarry.
Is Niklaus mikaelson from the originals
“The walls will ooze green slime!! No wait, they always do that.”
Start in a horror movie, and ended up on Spongebob lol
This is a horror masterpiece, it’s over 100 years old and still creepier than the stuff we have today
unless you're a spongebob fan.
1:14 look how happy he is
This STILL works after 100 years. For me the creepiest horror scene is Heather's close-up mea culpa in Blair Witch!
Love that scene
In her defense, she didn't have a lot of opportunity to fix her make-up.😉
1:31 this scene is creepy as hell
I can't believe this creepy guy that was shown in the SpongeBob episode is in an actual movie.
This movie proves that you don’t need CGI, dialogue, or special props to produce a terrifying movie. In my opinion, silent films in general are very underrated.
That scene in spongebob will always be scarier than any horror movie ever created
1:20 I thought that was dobby hanging on the wall for a second
I mean, it's pretty scary, but have you seen my car insurance bill?
Max Schreck was chilling as nosferatu. The presence he delivered was just eerie
Totally agree, it is the scariest scene of a landmark movie. The stroke of the bells at midnight. The sight of the Count unmasked. And no help to be found. It's worth the comparison to look again at Werner Herzog's remake of Nosferatu, an obvious labor of love for him. His version of this scene takes the horror and hopelessness even higher, as we hear the clock strike midnight, while we get to see and hear the slow, steady and deliberate steps taken by Count Orlok down the dark hallway and into Harker's room. Really, landmark film making from both Murnau AND Herzog.
Crazy how a 100 year old movie can convey the idea of fear better than most modern horror films
Yea the way he stood in the door way like he was retarded really got me jumping out of my boots
He’s just standing there…..MENACINGLY!
The music,lighting, timing are all perfect. In a time when everything is over the top cgi, or jump scare slashers. Something as subtle as this is quite truly terrifying.
What's terrifying is you thinking that was terrifying. Lol were you on shrooms when you saw this? 🤣😂🤣😂
Fuck are you talking about? This is 1922 before CGI, it wasn't subtle, its just they didnt have the tech to make any sounds except for music. There also weren't slashers then.
@@hollowfiedkyubi honestly i would like him to tell me so i can stay away from them.
@@kingdogethell6774 it’s fine you can do shrooms. Crack on
@@kingdogethell6774 shrooms ain’t bad lol don’t worry but they’re not for everyone
100 years old and it is hands down one of my favorite scary movies. I used to watch it on RUclips every Halloween a long time ago.
"Wait.... if that was you on the phone, and you on the bus; then who was flickering the lights?"
This scene was soo scary it made me fall out of my chair, end in a coffin, then decay for 102 years
1:09
He ran because he saw the Hash Slinging Slasher
Happy 100 year anniversary to this legendary film
This is and will remain my favorite villain shot of any movie. Heck, I like to think that this movie literally invented the villain shot because it’s so iconic. Just something about holding a camera against an actor staying stiff and still for such a prolonged period of time is naturally unsettling.
Dude = hides under the sheet
Count Orlock: "Oop he's disappeared"
1:39 me and my friend on our way to complain to our favorite teacher
1:40 me after playing video game all night
This seems 100% more possible than today. Yes we have all the reality but this is downright believable