Directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck, Nosferatu is one of the most influential silent horror films ever produced. This German Expressionist interpretation of Bram Stokers Dracula introduced Count Orlok as a defining figure in early cinematic horror. The film remains a cornerstone of silent-era filmmaking and helped establish visual language and atmosphere that shaped horror cinema for decades.

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An iconic film of the German expressionist cinema, and one of the most famous of all silent movies, F. W. Murnaus Nosferatu. Eine Symphonie des Grauens. [Nosferatu. A Symphony of Horror.] continues to haunt and, indeed, terrify modern audiences with the unshakable power of its images. By teasing a host of occult atmospherics out of dilapidated set-pieces and innocuous real-world locations alike, Murnau captured on celluloid the deeply-rooted elements of a waking nightmare, and launched the signature Murnau-style that would change cinema history forever.

In this first-ever screen adaptation of Bram Stokers Dracula, a simple real-estate transaction leads an intrepid businessman deep into the superstitious heart of Transylvania. There he encounters the otherworldly Count Orlok portrayed by the legendary Max Schreck, in a performance the very backstory of which has spawned its own mythology who soon after embarks upon a cross-continental voyage to take up residence in a distant new land… and establish his ambiguous dominion. As to whether the counts campaign against the plague-wracked populace erupts from satanic decree, erotic compulsion, or the simple impulse of survival that remains, perhaps, the greatest mystery of all in this film thats like a blackout…

Remade by Werner Herzog in 1979 (and inspiring films as diverse as Abel Ferraras King of New York and The Addiction, and E. Elias Merhiges Shadow of the V