Nosferatu 1979 is my favorite vampire film ever made! Everything about it is exactly what I love about vampire fiction: dreamlike, beautiful, sensual, and hopeless. You can pause the movie on any frame, and it’s like a painting on the screen. I love the way they used shadows to create a naturalistically changing aspect ratio. Not to mention, this film has both Klaus Kinski AND Isabelle Adjani. My two favorite actors of all time in one movie! Considering both of their reputations (especially his), that must’ve been hell for everyone else in production but it’s so worth it. This version is also the scariest Dracula adaption because it all feels so bizarrely real. I can feel the plague deaths, I can feel the hopelessness, and god knows I can feel the fear of having that thing pining for you. My friends and I like to refer to the Count Dracula dinner scene as a mask-off moment for Klaus Kinski, like this is what it would truly feel like to be on the other side of his insane rage. Chilling stuff.
21:41 That last supper scene from "Nosferatu 79" is one of my favorite movie scenes ever. It's such a disturbing powerful moment when Lucy sees all these partying people who are about to die, the delicious food in front of all these rats, and all of that combined with an Gregorian Chant. Just masterfully absurd and full of logic at the same time.
The Muranu film is an undeniable classic that we nearly lost due to the Stokers, but thankfully they saved the film and we still study the film over a century after. “Shadow of the Vampire” is one of my favorite vampire films and is a fun “biopic” about how the film was made, but just with the “what if they did hire a real vampire” premise. I believe they even shot as much as they could at some of the same locations Murnau did outside of when you can tell it’s a set piece. Plus the performances from Willem Dafoe (totally robbed of an Oscar for his excellent work) & John Malkovich is the chef’s kiss of watching who can out-ham the other. As for Herzog’s remake, it’s a good re-adaptation of the Muranu film but allowed to be a bit more faithful to the original book. However he kept the names the same as he was redoing the Muranu film and not adapting the book itself. The performances are also really good & it’s dripping in atmosphere. I recommend them all & cannot wait for Robert Eggers’ version this Christmas
Good presentation and reviews here. Herzog's Nosferatu is probably MY fave out of this trio. It's classy, dreamlike, shocking, has an undertone of subtle dark humor, is that very rare kind of film that combines both grotesquerie and beauty, and is one of the VERY FEW remakes that I actually like. I'm, admitedly yet to see Shadow of the Vampire though.
Adjani is almost as haunting as the vampires. Bruno Ganz is also Hitler in the Downfall (Der Untergang) - the one of the Hitler reacts to X memes, so to speak. Thank you for that last supper observation, I never thought about it in these terms. Great movie.
@@WhytheBookWins Have you seen Possession with Adjani (Sam Neil)? Not sure it can be useful for the channel tho. EDIT: Possession, not Obsession. Thank you to people below for correcting my cerebral flatulence!!
Thanks for this video! I got to see Nosferatu back in 1999 at a midnight movie. It was a big deal b/c it was really hard to find back then. The next week I got to see Shadow of the Vampire at the midnight movie.i love them both! Thank you!
klaus kinski played nosferatu 2 times, in his second attempt he was also co-director - "nosferatu a venezia" it's weird, very moody flick, shot in venice, which adds to atmosphere yeah, he is very famous for being difficult, you should watch amazing - "aguirre, the wrath of god" with him and making of of that movie, it's like total hysteric collapse amidst amazonian jungle, the movie is great
What I would do for a film adaptation of Dracula is to make it a two parter. Yeah, I know. A lot of studios try to milk the audience by splitting films into two parts, but a story like Dracula could work as a two parter. What I would also do is reincorporate elements from the Icelandic and Scandinavian versions of Dracula called "Powers of Darkness," "The Un-Dead" by Joel Emerson, which adds scrapped concepts back into Dracula, and "Dracula's Guest." The first film will be a Folk Horror film, focused on the part of the story where Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania and his stay in Castle Dracula. As in "Dracula's Guest," he has an encounter with the Countess Dolingen at her grave towards the beginning. While in the castle, he is haunted(and hunted) by the Brides, the lead bride he recognizes as Countess Dolingen. He discovers that Dracula is a vampire and is the leader of a cult of beast-men that dwell in the catacombs beneath the castle. Not only does Dracula feed a child to the Brides and the mother to wolves, but Jonathan witnesses the cult perform a human sacrifice. The film ends on a cliffhanger as Dracula leaves for England and Jonathan is left to the mercy of the Brides. Part two will be a Gothic Horror set mostly in England. It begins with the doomed voyage of the Demeter. In tone, it would be like "Alien" but on a boat as the crew are picked off one by one. Once Dracula arrives at England, he starts feeding on Lucy, getting the other characters involved. From the aforementioned "The Un-Dead," new characters included are Kate and Francis, Mina's students. Francis becomes obsessed with the Count, and Kate hires Inspector Singleton to investigate once Arthur's father, Lucy, and Lucy's mother all die around the same time. It would be like a Jack the Ripper mystery film at this point. Van Helsing and the others then chase Dracula back to Transylvania and destroy him.
I guess the violin boy in N 79 is just some kind of symbolism. Consider that THAT one is FORIEGN so it's a tad arty (nothing wrong with that though). Yeaa, Kinski does have the distinction of playing both Renfield AND Drac. I particularly like when he utters the line "What a lovely throat!!".
I am a big fan of the 1922 version. However, one correction. The characters names were not changed to avoid copyright. In the early days of film, copyright laws were not clear, and does a film need to get permission from the author/publisher since it is a separate art form. The names were changed because it was a low budget film intended for a German audience so they changes the names/locations to Germany to make it of interest to a German audience. If you watch a good copy of the 1922 version you will see Bram Stoker's book is credited in the opening credits. I enjoyed your video and look forward to the 2024 film. I also liked the Last Voyage of the Demeter film and will have to look for your review.
Definitely check out The Language of Shadows documentary. It's all about Murnau's career and thought process in making Nosferatu. To me, it's the definitive source of information on the film. They talk about Albin G. and other notable players and how Occultism inspired them, and how it was a call to action against the modernity, and it's all very interesting. Highly recommended. Pretty sure it's available here on YT.
Kaus Kinsky and Herzog worked in several other movies. While filming Fitzcarraldo the local tribe that was providing extras, after seeing all the abuse Kinsky inflicted on the rest of the crew, approached Herzog with an offer kill Kinsky.
Another thing about Werner Herzog's Nosferatu - it seems to have REAL GENUINE creepy people in it's cast (not just actors playing creepy). Especially Dracula and Renfeild, (though even the protagonist characters in that flick are a bit creepy).
It's funny to me how many actors have had the chance to play multiple Dracula characters. Willem Dafoe has played both Dracula/Orlok, and the vampire hunter. Klaus Kinski has played both Dracula/Orlok, and Renfield. Nicholas Hoult has played both Renfield and Harker/Hutter. You mentioned the Cary Elwes connection. You should also see Vampire in Venice (aka Nosferatu in Venice), a sort-of sequel where Kinski plays a sexier version of the vampire. The cinematography was great, but the production was troubled, largely by Kinski. Here Christopher Plummer plays a vampire hunter, and also Van Helsing in Dracula 2000.
Yeah I definitely want to watch Vampire in Venice! And I saw Dracula 2000 and remember liking it, but it has been a while. And yeah, Dracula has soooo many adaptations and variations so I guess it makes sense many actors have been in different versions.
Having read The Un-dead by Joel H Emerson, an expanded take on Dracula, keeping many of Bram Stoker's chapters, it has Harker taking photos of properties, meeting and talking with Renfield before Harker leaves for Transylvania, plus including four characters excluded from the book, Miss Kate Reed, a reporter/occultist, a detective and an artist, with the camera unable to capture a vampire's image and drawing/painting Dracula, it looks nothing like what people see.
I personally really liked the way the 1992 version of Dracula portrayed the arrival and stay at Dracula's castle. It's creepy and unsettling. Harker(Keanu Reeves) being dropped off by the carriage in the middle of the night in the forrest. Wolves howling and stalking him and then the carriage shows up, not making a sound and mist trailing behind it. That is such a good scene. It also gives you a feeling that the castle is a creepy, dangerous place. You are not safe there. The laws of nature are not really at play, there are weird sounds and shadows move in an unnatural way. Oldman's Dracula is malevolent and doesn't even try to hide it. It's just unsettling. I also like that they shot all of that movie with practical effects and in-camera. There is only one post-production effect in that entire movie. It gives it an antiquated and "uncanny valley" feel that just adds to the creepiness. Werner Herzog is obsessed with the concept of madness and especially the (very disturbing) process of a sane, rational person slowly going insane. That theme shows up in a number of his movies and usually presented (similar to the book Lord of the flies) that if you strip away the thin veneer of society, humans quickly desend into animalistic and insane behaviour. In Nosferatu (1979) the plague creates mass hysteria and people quickly abandon their civilized lives to become hedonistic, insane creatures. In Shadow of the Vampire, F.W. Murnau and his colleagues initially don't let Max Schreck kill Greta Schröder. Their plan was to drug her up with morphine and then let Schreck drink her blood so that he also becomes affected by the drug. This makes him fall asleep and loose track of time so that they can wait for sunrise and kill him. You can clearly see in the movie that Schröder is alive - but quite out of it - even after Schreck has "feasted" on her. It's only after their plan has failed and Murnau is trying to save his own life (and his movie) that he allows Schreck to kill Schröder. It's still disturbing but it's not the way you interpreted it. When it comes to Eggers movie, I get the feeling he is trying to combine stuff from both the 1922 and 1979 versions as well as from the book. The Lucy character has been re-introduced in the form of Emma Corrin's Anna Harding. I don't know if she will suffer the same fate as in the book but she seems to at least play the part of Ellen's/Mina's best friend. They also seem to have brought back the "vampire hunters" from the book. Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Ineson play versions of Sir Arthur Holmwood and Dr. Seward. They were not present in the earlier movies. Willem Dafoe's Van Helsing character also seem to play a much bigger part in this movie than in the earlier movies. I am so exited for this movie!
Thanks for commenting! And interesting, yeah I had not interpreted that scene that way in Shadow of the Vampire! It makes sense though...I'll have to rewatch it now! And I have avoided trailers for the new movie because I want to know as little as possible before watching it! (Despite having watched the previous movies and have read the book which already give me hint to what will happen lol but still). But yeah I am very curious to see how much of the book he brings in compared to the other two movies.
Bruno Ganz is superb as an angel in Wings of Desire (1987)In the 1979 remake it could very well be that the guy on the horse is no longer Harker but Dracula.
Loved your video. I love the silent Nosferatu and Shadow of the Vampire (Willem Dafoe is amazing). I saw the Herzog movie but I don’t remember anything but that Klaus Kinski was in it and HIS daughter was in The Cat People remake. I can’t remember which movie it was - someone has probably mentioned it already - but Kinski was so hated the native tribes people who were extras, they offered to kill him. 😂 Someone I read joked the tribes people weren’t even going to charge for it. 🤣 Seriously I don’t know how Herzog worked with him so often, but I guess he could stand toe to toe and tell Kinski where to get off. I like that. I’m not really into the more modern day German cinema but have to admire Herzog for telling Kinski what he could go to himself. 😅 Anyway, this Dracula adaptation isn’t a favorite and I’ll likely even name Turkish Dracula (yes that exists - it was free on RUclips) before I will this one. I’m only remembering it now due to to your video and the new Eggers movie. Oh but I do love Brno Ganz. His Downfall is incredible. Oh! I think Turkish Dracula is the first version where we see fangs as it predates Christopher Lee! It’s not a good movie - it might even be so bad it’s good - but add that to your Dracula repertoire. I think Mina also breaks out into interpretative dance/strip trae for Dracula. Yeah you’ll never see THAT in Bran Stoker. 😁
The scariest looking Dracula. You are right about the 1979 version, he's a vampire that really has a problem being immortal. Kinski gives a really good performance considering that he was an actor that was borderlined crazy. Shadow of the vampire is my favorite take on this story. It does make you think when you watch the 1922 version if the actor really was a vampire. Fun Fact: William Defoe who plays Max shrek in Shadow of the vampire is in the new Nosferatu as the van helsing type character.
Thanks for commenting! Yeah the more I think about Shadow of the Vampire the more I love it! And yeah so cool Dafoe is in the new one as well. I'm assuming they will be making his role larger as well because like I say on the video, the Van Helsing equivalent here doesn't do much and in the 79 movie he doesn't even beleive Lucy when she tries to tell him what's happening.
@WhytheBookWins one part in the movie that i found intersting also is a scene where Shrek is seeing the sun on the reels on the camera. It shows also that though they don't say how long he's been alive, the fact that this could be the first time he sees the sun in a long time is really sad. It reminded of the scene in Interview the with the Vampire where Louis is able to watch the sun again thanks to the movies.
Maybe I missed it but have you ever seen the 1970s DRACULA? Like 1931, based on the Broadway play and Frank Langella played Dracula in both. Sir Laurence Olivier plays Van Helsing. Two versions: directors preferred desaturated version and studio-enforced high color version.
I thought the Dracula book stated that Renfield was in Harker's line of work and was kind of doing the same job butwhen he got home had seemingly gone insane
@@WhytheBookWins can you do “King Solomon's mines (novel)” vs “Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (movie)” as your next book versus movie video? As you can tell from the title they may have took in a few liberties but I never read the novel so I don’t know how many huge difference there are and I’m hoping you’ll tell me.
I find the scene where Orlock is dead on the floor like a wizened spider so unsettling. It's far more shocking than than him simply turning to dust as in the 1922 film. New to this channel. I'll explore some more 👍👍
@ I’ll keep that in mind. The original has a bunch of iconic moments, and a lot of the creepy moments still hold to this day. The silence in the movie makes it more creepier because you create the sounds in your mind. Plus Count Orlok was in SpongeBob lol
Honestly, the BBC “Dracula” 3 part mini series on Netflix is a beautiful adaption of the Harper/count dynamic for the first episode! Highly recommend. Beware of part 3 ⚰️
I LOATHED the 1979 for fifteen years because I never saw the purpose of them remaking the lovely 1922 movie. But I saw i finally last year and thought it was fine. I don't get why the 1979 version didn't keep the renames of the 1922 version as opposed to keeping the ones from the Dracula book since this is more-so following that movie than adapting the book. I thought that was an odd choice as much as them making Mina Harker into Lucy Harker. Some of the 1979 scenes fell flat to me, like the ship scenes were too short and came off very honky when mirroring the 1922 scenes like Klaus' Dracula walking past the camera trying to attack the captain was straight laughable. Not as effective as Schreck's Orlok doing so. Renfield's arc also just unresolved as he runs off out of the town and that's it. At least the 1922 version shows him seemingly dying when Orlok does. Also, Jonathan becomes a vampire at the end but somehow can ride off in broad daylight, the same daylight that kills Dracula? Yeah, this version had potential to be a good remake and sort of succeeds but some of the issues I note brings it down a bit. As far as the 2024 move goes, there was no need for it. One remake is enough, to make another seems lousy and pathetic. I noticed in the beginning you censor out the bit where you say Max Shreck's name when talking about the 2000 meta-movie. Why is that?
Yeah the ship scene was much better in the '22 movie! And I hadn't even considered the fact that the ending is in day but you're right that doesn't really make sense lol 🤔 And I did that partly to keep the intro spoiler free, but also in hopes it would grab people's attention and keep them watching the video longer!
@@WhytheBookWins Yeah the ship scene they just brushed over pretty much in the remake and I found it to be very dark in terms of the picture. It needed more lighting and action. We should have seen the crew members dying and the captain getting an onscreen death to make up for not seeing so in the original, which is fine and plays it off effectively but by 1979 I think we could have seen the death happening. As for the spoiler free intro, that makes sense. Thanks for responding. :)
I'm so bad at specifically noticing scores 🤦♀️ I know it makes such a difference and impacts the viewing experience but it's rarely something I'm consciously thinking about while watching a movie. And yeah, the actor who played Renfield in the 79 one was very good! His bursts of weird laughter was unsettling. Thanks for commenting and I'm glad you liked the video 😊
8:36 Ya know, for being an adaptation, they really couldn't help themselves when they included the sunlight trope in Demeter, even though it would have been more faithful to the book if the vampires were just weakened. I mean come on, for as crappy a movie as it is, even Blade Trinity got that right lol
I've never seen the Blade movies 🫢 But that's cool their vampires can be in the sun! It's funny how that lore has become so ingrained in us. I was so surprised when reading Dracula that he can be in sunlight!
@WhytheBookWins Well it's not all vampires, just Dracula (or Drake as the film calls him), and I kinda wish that aspect was used more in modern vampire stories because it would make them more menacing because not even sunlight would be able to save people then.
Please leave the pre-amble out it wastes time which is precious especially to your audience but we actually want to hear ALL of what you have to say not just what you think is important. I understand you may not do your own editing but by the time you got to YOUR take I was bored and clicked out. Don't take my advice and lose followers if you like?
I do my own editing, I definitely can't afford to have someone else do it for me lol. And I include time stamps so people can skip around. I'm sorry you didn't utilize those!
Nosferatu 1979 is my favorite vampire film ever made! Everything about it is exactly what I love about vampire fiction: dreamlike, beautiful, sensual, and hopeless. You can pause the movie on any frame, and it’s like a painting on the screen. I love the way they used shadows to create a naturalistically changing aspect ratio.
Not to mention, this film has both Klaus Kinski AND Isabelle Adjani. My two favorite actors of all time in one movie! Considering both of their reputations (especially his), that must’ve been hell for everyone else in production but it’s so worth it.
This version is also the scariest Dracula adaption because it all feels so bizarrely real. I can feel the plague deaths, I can feel the hopelessness, and god knows I can feel the fear of having that thing pining for you. My friends and I like to refer to the Count Dracula dinner scene as a mask-off moment for Klaus Kinski, like this is what it would truly feel like to be on the other side of his insane rage. Chilling stuff.
Thanks for sharing! Yeah it's a fantastic movie- chillingly beautiful!
21:41 That last supper scene from "Nosferatu 79" is one of my favorite movie scenes ever. It's such a disturbing powerful moment when Lucy sees all these partying people who are about to die, the delicious food in front of all these rats, and all of that combined with an Gregorian Chant. Just masterfully absurd and full of logic at the same time.
Yeah so bizarre and disturbing!
Been binging your channel recently, very excited for your thoughts on the newest adaptation once it’s out!
@RS-ry4lp thank you! I have high hopes 🤞
I think the boy violinist in 'Nosferatu The Vampire' is meant to be immediately outside the confines of the castle. Your dress is so beautiful, again.
Ooh, I think you might be right about that, I'll need to watch that scene again and check! And thank you ☺️
The Muranu film is an undeniable classic that we nearly lost due to the Stokers, but thankfully they saved the film and we still study the film over a century after.
“Shadow of the Vampire” is one of my favorite vampire films and is a fun “biopic” about how the film was made, but just with the “what if they did hire a real vampire” premise. I believe they even shot as much as they could at some of the same locations Murnau did outside of when you can tell it’s a set piece. Plus the performances from Willem Dafoe (totally robbed of an Oscar for his excellent work) & John Malkovich is the chef’s kiss of watching who can out-ham the other.
As for Herzog’s remake, it’s a good re-adaptation of the Muranu film but allowed to be a bit more faithful to the original book. However he kept the names the same as he was redoing the Muranu film and not adapting the book itself. The performances are also really good & it’s dripping in atmosphere. I recommend them all & cannot wait for Robert Eggers’ version this Christmas
I agree!
Good presentation and reviews here. Herzog's Nosferatu is probably MY fave out of this trio. It's classy, dreamlike, shocking, has an undertone of subtle dark humor, is that very rare kind of film that combines both grotesquerie and beauty, and is one of the VERY FEW remakes that I actually like.
I'm, admitedly yet to see Shadow of the Vampire though.
Yeah that's the one I have the highest rating to initially. Though the more I think about Shadow of the Vampire the more I love it!
Adjani is almost as haunting as the vampires.
Bruno Ganz is also Hitler in the Downfall (Der Untergang) - the one of the Hitler reacts to X memes, so to speak.
Thank you for that last supper observation, I never thought about it in these terms. Great movie.
She's so great in this!
And interesting, I'll look that up.
@@WhytheBookWins Have you seen Possession with Adjani (Sam Neil)? Not sure it can be useful for the channel tho.
EDIT: Possession, not Obsession. Thank you to people below for correcting my cerebral flatulence!!
@@Kaiyanwang82 No but I want to! I've heard great things.
Adjani is stunning in Possession (1977).
@@Kaiyanwang82 "Possession", not "Obsession", which is a different film.
Here’s something that you forgot to mention William Defoe is in the new no Serrato movie and he’s also in shadow of the vampire
Thanks for this video! I got to see Nosferatu back in 1999 at a midnight movie. It was a big deal b/c it was really hard to find back then. The next week I got to see Shadow of the Vampire at the midnight movie.i love them both! Thank you!
That's so cool!
Udo Kier, who plays the Count in ANDY WARHOL'S BLOOD FOR DRACULA, is also in SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE: another, nice, little link.
Very excited for the Robert Eggers Nosferatu! Looks very spooky 🧛
Agreed!
klaus kinski played nosferatu 2 times, in his second attempt he was also co-director - "nosferatu a venezia"
it's weird, very moody flick, shot in venice, which adds to atmosphere
yeah, he is very famous for being difficult, you should watch amazing - "aguirre, the wrath of god" with him and making of of that movie, it's like total hysteric collapse amidst amazonian jungle, the movie is great
Oo yeah I'll need to watch that one.
What I would do for a film adaptation of Dracula is to make it a two parter. Yeah, I know. A lot of studios try to milk the audience by splitting films into two parts, but a story like Dracula could work as a two parter. What I would also do is reincorporate elements from the Icelandic and Scandinavian versions of Dracula called "Powers of Darkness," "The Un-Dead" by Joel Emerson, which adds scrapped concepts back into Dracula, and "Dracula's Guest."
The first film will be a Folk Horror film, focused on the part of the story where Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania and his stay in Castle Dracula. As in "Dracula's Guest," he has an encounter with the Countess Dolingen at her grave towards the beginning. While in the castle, he is haunted(and hunted) by the Brides, the lead bride he recognizes as Countess Dolingen. He discovers that Dracula is a vampire and is the leader of a cult of beast-men that dwell in the catacombs beneath the castle. Not only does Dracula feed a child to the Brides and the mother to wolves, but Jonathan witnesses the cult perform a human sacrifice. The film ends on a cliffhanger as Dracula leaves for England and Jonathan is left to the mercy of the Brides.
Part two will be a Gothic Horror set mostly in England. It begins with the doomed voyage of the Demeter. In tone, it would be like "Alien" but on a boat as the crew are picked off one by one. Once Dracula arrives at England, he starts feeding on Lucy, getting the other characters involved. From the aforementioned "The Un-Dead," new characters included are Kate and Francis, Mina's students. Francis becomes obsessed with the Count, and Kate hires Inspector Singleton to investigate once Arthur's father, Lucy, and Lucy's mother all die around the same time. It would be like a Jack the Ripper mystery film at this point. Van Helsing and the others then chase Dracula back to Transylvania and destroy him.
That sounds awesome!
I guess the violin boy in N 79 is just some kind of symbolism. Consider that THAT one is FORIEGN so it's a tad arty (nothing wrong with that though). Yeaa, Kinski does have the distinction of playing both Renfield AND Drac. I particularly like when he utters the line "What a lovely throat!!".
I love that you recognized Bruno Ganz from The American Friend rather than that other movie that has been memed to death for 20 years.
Yeah i had no idea until the comments that he played Hitler!
I am a big fan of the 1922 version. However, one correction. The characters names were not changed to avoid copyright. In the early days of film, copyright laws were not clear, and does a film need to get permission from the author/publisher since it is a separate art form. The names were changed because it was a low budget film intended for a German audience so they changes the names/locations to Germany to make it of interest to a German audience. If you watch a good copy of the 1922 version you will see Bram Stoker's book is credited in the opening credits. I enjoyed your video and look forward to the 2024 film. I also liked the Last Voyage of the Demeter film and will have to look for your review.
Definitely check out The Language of Shadows documentary. It's all about Murnau's career and thought process in making Nosferatu. To me, it's the definitive source of information on the film. They talk about Albin G. and other notable players and how Occultism inspired them, and how it was a call to action against the modernity, and it's all very interesting. Highly recommended. Pretty sure it's available here on YT.
Kaus Kinsky and Herzog worked in several other movies. While filming Fitzcarraldo the local tribe that was providing extras, after seeing all the abuse Kinsky inflicted on the rest of the crew, approached Herzog with an offer kill Kinsky.
Another thing about Werner Herzog's Nosferatu - it seems to have REAL GENUINE creepy people in it's cast (not just actors playing creepy). Especially Dracula and Renfeild, (though even the protagonist characters in that flick are a bit creepy).
I forgot Herzog directed the 1979 Nosferatu. That's worth a look.
It's funny to me how many actors have had the chance to play multiple Dracula characters.
Willem Dafoe has played both Dracula/Orlok, and the vampire hunter.
Klaus Kinski has played both Dracula/Orlok, and Renfield.
Nicholas Hoult has played both Renfield and Harker/Hutter.
You mentioned the Cary Elwes connection.
You should also see Vampire in Venice (aka Nosferatu in Venice), a sort-of sequel where Kinski plays a sexier version of the vampire. The cinematography was great, but the production was troubled, largely by Kinski. Here Christopher Plummer plays a vampire hunter, and also Van Helsing in Dracula 2000.
Yeah I definitely want to watch Vampire in Venice! And I saw Dracula 2000 and remember liking it, but it has been a while.
And yeah, Dracula has soooo many adaptations and variations so I guess it makes sense many actors have been in different versions.
Having read The Un-dead by Joel H Emerson, an expanded take on Dracula, keeping many of Bram Stoker's chapters, it has Harker taking photos of properties, meeting and talking with Renfield before Harker leaves for Transylvania, plus including four characters excluded from the book, Miss Kate Reed, a reporter/occultist, a detective and an artist, with the camera unable to capture a vampire's image and drawing/painting Dracula, it looks nothing like what people see.
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I personally really liked the way the 1992 version of Dracula portrayed the arrival and stay at Dracula's castle. It's creepy and unsettling. Harker(Keanu Reeves) being dropped off by the carriage in the middle of the night in the forrest. Wolves howling and stalking him and then the carriage shows up, not making a sound and mist trailing behind it. That is such a good scene. It also gives you a feeling that the castle is a creepy, dangerous place. You are not safe there. The laws of nature are not really at play, there are weird sounds and shadows move in an unnatural way. Oldman's Dracula is malevolent and doesn't even try to hide it. It's just unsettling. I also like that they shot all of that movie with practical effects and in-camera. There is only one post-production effect in that entire movie. It gives it an antiquated and "uncanny valley" feel that just adds to the creepiness.
Werner Herzog is obsessed with the concept of madness and especially the (very disturbing) process of a sane, rational person slowly going insane. That theme shows up in a number of his movies and usually presented (similar to the book Lord of the flies) that if you strip away the thin veneer of society, humans quickly desend into animalistic and insane behaviour. In Nosferatu (1979) the plague creates mass hysteria and people quickly abandon their civilized lives to become hedonistic, insane creatures.
In Shadow of the Vampire, F.W. Murnau and his colleagues initially don't let Max Schreck kill Greta Schröder. Their plan was to drug her up with morphine and then let Schreck drink her blood so that he also becomes affected by the drug. This makes him fall asleep and loose track of time so that they can wait for sunrise and kill him. You can clearly see in the movie that Schröder is alive - but quite out of it - even after Schreck has "feasted" on her. It's only after their plan has failed and Murnau is trying to save his own life (and his movie) that he allows Schreck to kill Schröder. It's still disturbing but it's not the way you interpreted it.
When it comes to Eggers movie, I get the feeling he is trying to combine stuff from both the 1922 and 1979 versions as well as from the book. The Lucy character has been re-introduced in the form of Emma Corrin's Anna Harding. I don't know if she will suffer the same fate as in the book but she seems to at least play the part of Ellen's/Mina's best friend. They also seem to have brought back the "vampire hunters" from the book. Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Ineson play versions of Sir Arthur Holmwood and Dr. Seward. They were not present in the earlier movies. Willem Dafoe's Van Helsing character also seem to play a much bigger part in this movie than in the earlier movies. I am so exited for this movie!
Thanks for commenting! And interesting, yeah I had not interpreted that scene that way in Shadow of the Vampire! It makes sense though...I'll have to rewatch it now!
And I have avoided trailers for the new movie because I want to know as little as possible before watching it! (Despite having watched the previous movies and have read the book which already give me hint to what will happen lol but still). But yeah I am very curious to see how much of the book he brings in compared to the other two movies.
Bruno Ganz is superb as an angel in Wings of Desire (1987)In the 1979 remake it could very well be that the guy on the horse is no longer Harker but Dracula.
Loved your video. I love the silent Nosferatu and Shadow of the Vampire (Willem Dafoe is amazing). I saw the Herzog movie but I don’t remember anything but that Klaus Kinski was in it and HIS daughter was in The Cat People remake. I can’t remember which movie it was - someone has probably mentioned it already - but Kinski was so hated the native tribes people who were extras, they offered to kill him. 😂 Someone I read joked the tribes people weren’t even going to charge for it. 🤣 Seriously I don’t know how Herzog worked with him so often, but I guess he could stand toe to toe and tell Kinski where to get off. I like that. I’m not really into the more modern day German cinema but have to admire Herzog for telling Kinski what he could go to himself. 😅 Anyway, this Dracula adaptation isn’t a favorite and I’ll likely even name Turkish Dracula (yes that exists - it was free on RUclips) before I will this one. I’m only remembering it now due to to your video and the new Eggers movie. Oh but I do love Brno Ganz. His Downfall is incredible.
Oh! I think Turkish Dracula is the first version where we see fangs as it predates Christopher Lee! It’s not a good movie - it might even be so bad it’s good - but add that to your Dracula repertoire. I think Mina also breaks out into interpretative dance/strip trae for Dracula. Yeah you’ll never see THAT in Bran Stoker. 😁
Whoa, yeah he seems like a nightmare!
And wow 😆 I'll need to look up the Turkish one!
they didn't really offer to to kill him, that was just a story that herzog made up.
I also love that the vampire in Salem's Lot is clearly inspired by the design of Nosferatu, a.k.a. Max Schreck.
The scariest looking Dracula.
You are right about the 1979 version, he's a vampire that really has a problem being immortal. Kinski gives a really good performance considering that he was an actor that was borderlined crazy.
Shadow of the vampire is my favorite take on this story. It does make you think when you watch the 1922 version if the actor really was a vampire.
Fun Fact: William Defoe who plays Max shrek in Shadow of the vampire is in the new Nosferatu as the van helsing type character.
Thanks for commenting! Yeah the more I think about Shadow of the Vampire the more I love it!
And yeah so cool Dafoe is in the new one as well. I'm assuming they will be making his role larger as well because like I say on the video, the Van Helsing equivalent here doesn't do much and in the 79 movie he doesn't even beleive Lucy when she tries to tell him what's happening.
@WhytheBookWins one part in the movie that i found intersting also is a scene where Shrek is seeing the sun on the reels on the camera. It shows also that though they don't say how long he's been alive, the fact that this could be the first time he sees the sun in a long time is really sad. It reminded of the scene in Interview the with the Vampire where Louis is able to watch the sun again thanks to the movies.
@JohnCastillo-t1c agreed! I say almost that exact same thing in this video lol.
Yeah I love the end of the Herzog too. I saw it not long ago and can’t wait for the Egger’s movie
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Maybe I missed it but have you ever seen the 1970s DRACULA? Like 1931, based on the Broadway play and Frank Langella played Dracula in both. Sir Laurence Olivier plays Van Helsing. Two versions: directors preferred desaturated version and studio-enforced high color version.
Yeah! I talk about that one in my second Dracula video where I watched 3 more versions that subscribers had requested.
There is another NOSFERATU now on AppleTV starring Doug Jones ("The Shape of Water" "Hellboy" "Star Trek: Discovery").
Wow I had no idea! I'll look it up
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Now I want to see a movie with Dracula doing all the cooking and cleaning, etc to fool Harker, in appropriate costumes, of course.
Lol same 😂
I thought the Dracula book stated that Renfield was in Harker's line of work and was kind of doing the same job butwhen he got home had seemingly gone insane
Hmm I don't recall that... but maybe you're right and I just missed that detail while reading 🤔
@@WhytheBookWins I think it was at least in the 1992 movie
I would love to hear what you think of the recent BBC three part Dracula with Dolly Weeks and Claes Bang!
I loved it!
I'll have to check it out!
Can I make a suggestion for your next book versus movie video?
Yes
@@WhytheBookWins can you do “King Solomon's mines (novel)” vs “Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (movie)” as your next book versus movie video? As you can tell from the title they may have took in a few liberties but I never read the novel so I don’t know how many huge difference there are and I’m hoping you’ll tell me.
I find the scene where Orlock is dead on the floor like a wizened spider so unsettling. It's far more shocking than than him simply turning to dust as in the 1922 film. New to this channel. I'll explore some more 👍👍
Definitely agree, very unsettling. Very fitting to compare him to a dead spider!
I love both versions, but I haven’t seen Shadow of the Vampire yet. If I had to pick one version, I’d go with 1922
It's hard not to choose the original! And I highly recommend shadow of the Vampire!
@ I’ll keep that in mind. The original has a bunch of iconic moments, and a lot of the creepy moments still hold to this day. The silence in the movie makes it more creepier because you create the sounds in your mind. Plus Count Orlok was in SpongeBob lol
Honestly, the BBC “Dracula” 3 part mini series on Netflix is a beautiful adaption of the Harper/count dynamic for the first episode! Highly recommend. Beware of part 3 ⚰️
I'll check it out!
I LOATHED the 1979 for fifteen years because I never saw the purpose of them remaking the lovely 1922 movie. But I saw i finally last year and thought it was fine. I don't get why the 1979 version didn't keep the renames of the 1922 version as opposed to keeping the ones from the Dracula book since this is more-so following that movie than adapting the book. I thought that was an odd choice as much as them making Mina Harker into Lucy Harker. Some of the 1979 scenes fell flat to me, like the ship scenes were too short and came off very honky when mirroring the 1922 scenes like Klaus' Dracula walking past the camera trying to attack the captain was straight laughable. Not as effective as Schreck's Orlok doing so. Renfield's arc also just unresolved as he runs off out of the town and that's it. At least the 1922 version shows him seemingly dying when Orlok does. Also, Jonathan becomes a vampire at the end but somehow can ride off in broad daylight, the same daylight that kills Dracula? Yeah, this version had potential to be a good remake and sort of succeeds but some of the issues I note brings it down a bit. As far as the 2024 move goes, there was no need for it. One remake is enough, to make another seems lousy and pathetic. I noticed in the beginning you censor out the bit where you say Max Shreck's name when talking about the 2000 meta-movie. Why is that?
Yeah the ship scene was much better in the '22 movie! And I hadn't even considered the fact that the ending is in day but you're right that doesn't really make sense lol 🤔
And I did that partly to keep the intro spoiler free, but also in hopes it would grab people's attention and keep them watching the video longer!
@@WhytheBookWins Yeah the ship scene they just brushed over pretty much in the remake and I found it to be very dark in terms of the picture. It needed more lighting and action. We should have seen the crew members dying and the captain getting an onscreen death to make up for not seeing so in the original, which is fine and plays it off effectively but by 1979 I think we could have seen the death happening. As for the spoiler free intro, that makes sense. Thanks for responding. :)
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Thanks, I'll look into it!
I just want to know who Max Shreck really was.
@fabrisseterbrugghe8567 Everybody knows that was Christopher Walkens character in Batman Returns!
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Worth noting that the 3-part BBC adaptation from a few years ago spends its entire first 90 minute episode centered around Harker's stay with Dracula.
Thanks for letting me know, I'll watch this one soon! The only BBC one one seen it the one with Louis Jordan.
the least super scene is my favorite! i love decadence in art
Just wish Renfield and the very eerily beautiful music score in the 79 one had been remarked on here. Aside from that, well done and tasty.
I'm so bad at specifically noticing scores 🤦♀️ I know it makes such a difference and impacts the viewing experience but it's rarely something I'm consciously thinking about while watching a movie.
And yeah, the actor who played Renfield in the 79 one was very good! His bursts of weird laughter was unsettling.
Thanks for commenting and I'm glad you liked the video 😊
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I have always considered F W Murmau as on of greatest movie director in silent film era , a lot of ironic movie scenes with his movies 🎥,
I need to watch more of his movies! This is my first one.
Would recommend Faust , his last German film, before moving to America
8:36 Ya know, for being an adaptation, they really couldn't help themselves when they included the sunlight trope in Demeter, even though it would have been more faithful to the book if the vampires were just weakened. I mean come on, for as crappy a movie as it is, even Blade Trinity got that right lol
I've never seen the Blade movies 🫢 But that's cool their vampires can be in the sun! It's funny how that lore has become so ingrained in us. I was so surprised when reading Dracula that he can be in sunlight!
@WhytheBookWins Well it's not all vampires, just Dracula (or Drake as the film calls him), and I kinda wish that aspect was used more in modern vampire stories because it would make them more menacing because not even sunlight would be able to save people then.
What? Sylvia Kristel was almost in Nosferatu?
According to IMDb!
@@WhytheBookWins according to IMDB sylvia kristel was almost in everything. her and kay lenz.
Based on the copy of Dracula I see behind you, I'd say somebody's been buying from The Folio Society lol
I love Folio Society! The illustrations in their Dracula edition are so incredible!
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Shadow of the Vampire is damaged by john malcovich who is NOT good
Please leave the pre-amble out it wastes time which is precious especially to your audience but we actually want to hear ALL of what you have to say not just what you think is important. I understand you may not do your own editing but by the time you got to YOUR take I was bored and clicked out. Don't take my advice and lose followers if you like?
I do my own editing, I definitely can't afford to have someone else do it for me lol. And I include time stamps so people can skip around. I'm sorry you didn't utilize those!
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No much Blabla. The one and only is 1922 Max Schreck. No Klaus Kinski no the new ohne Bill Skarsgård
keep it. yes klaus kinksi.
I was watching the 22 version Over Halloween And the Dialogue cards had Them named Mina and Harker. About the only name they changed was Dracula's.
Oh interesting!