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This movie is so meta since Willem Dafoe is a vampire in real life as well.
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I bet the makeup artists saved so much money working with Dafoe, since he kinda already looks like a vampire.
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To any fan of the original Nosferatu and of horrorfilm in general this underrated film is a must see. It is a fictionalised retelling of the making of the mother of all vampire films. It has as its premise that Max Schreck, the actor playing the vampire, actually was one himself. As silly as this may sound, thanks to an amalgamation of perfectly executed visuals, superb storytelling and some majestical acting, it works perfectly. Director Merhige treats his film, above all, as an ode to the original. He manages to conjure up that feel of the early silent movies really well and he actually uses footage from the original film. To his credit, the scenes he shot feel very authentic…
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I ♥️ movies about making movies I ♥️ biopics that take interesting creative liberties I ♥️ movies in which Willem Dafoe hams it up big time Shadow of the Vampire is glacially paced and repetitive, but it’s all worth it for that fantastic conclusion. 🧛🏻♂️
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Set during the filming of the pretty much groundbreaking horror film Nosferatu as the line between reality and fiction gets blurred, where FW Murnau is not only a perfectionist but the film becomes his own moby dick and he will go to the extremes to make the perfect vampire movie… even if that means to hire a real vampire. While Herzog’s version was a really good adaptation, this one is vastly superior in many ways. Not only the BTS approach makes of this a much unique movie, but director E. Elias Merhige actually attempts and mostly succeed on making the shooting scenes as if we are looking at footage from the 20s. The score by Dan Jones also helps building…
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“Our battle is to create art. Our weapon is the moving picture. Because we have it, our paintings will grow and recede and our light will play across living faces that laugh and agonize. We are scientists engaged in the creation of memory… but our memory will neither blur nor fade. Time will no longer be a dark spot on our lungs. They will no longer say ‘you had to have been there’ because, the fact is, we were.”
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Willem Dafoe as Nosferatu in a movie about the making of Nosferatu set in an alternate reality where Max Schreck, the actor from Nosferatu was a real life vampire?! And people don’t talk about this?!
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liked it better s second time.
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this is what i imagine it was like working with Klaus Kinski on the set of Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
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Vampyric Metamorphosis Masterpiece
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A Vampire acting like a human acting like a Vampire. How avant-garde.
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campy and mystical + merhige visuals + willem dafoe playing something weird and creepy = yes love it
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Willem Dafoe finally shows off his true form
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Maybe this movie was just too meta but I was really thrown off by the tone, the degree to which the characters just accept the supernatural events and deaths as ‘part of the business’ was a little jarring for me. Perhaps everything was meant to be seen through the lens of Murnau’s insanity, and that explains why everything just keeps on moving? Willem Dafoe carries everything about this movie, his character acting is ridiculously good. This was the first time…
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Willem Dafoe Biopic
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PhantasmaGomorahia as a invented word would describe this movie well
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We made a bargain I’ll now rate this film out of 10 in 5 categories Story, Characters, Visuals, Sound, and overall Production. Then I’ll give it a letter grade and corresponding star rating. Story – 9.5: This is a camp little story about the makings of one of early cinema’s favourite monsters, Nosferatu. It’s genuinely silly in its idea that Count Orlock was played by a real vampire going by the alias of Max Schreck and pretending to be an…
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This project is more fascinating than frightening, blurring the line between reality and fiction in clever ways. The dry, dark humor and quietly unsettling atmosphere complement each other beautifully, leading to a compelling meditation on artistic obsession and the sacrifices demanded in the pursuit of greatness. John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe bounce off each other perfectly, grounding the bizarre premise in real psychological tension. It is a smart, understated meta-thriller.
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Was very much not liking this one until the end
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really fun and camp idk what else to tell you i have a blast besides my wifi deciding to give out with 15 minutes left in the movie and having to fix it
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watching people watching Dracula watching the film
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Count Orlok number one pookie
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Another great performance by Willem Dafoe as a creepy little guy
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Era un vampiro y aún así fue más fácil de tratar que Claus Kinski…
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Man idk Willem DaFreak I guess
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a la verga
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El monstruo más aterrador de una película es el director
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sufferer of having a very cool premise that is better than the movie itself. willem dafoe clacking his acrylic nails and the accent work being funnily atrocious makes up for it a little, i guess.
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Me ha dado todo el fomo de verme la original
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william dafoe? more like WILLIAM DA GOAT no le terminé de encontrar el tono, no termina de ser una película de terror pero tampoco un drama… queda en un limbo raro
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Freakliam Dafreak acts like a vampire acting like an actor acting like a vampire
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Una de las mejores películas sobre una película que e visto, y aunque obviamente no es una película “biográfica” que cuenta la verdadera historia de la película original de “Nosferatu” sigue siendo bastante genial de ver cómo el director reimagino como fue la creación de esa tan aclamada películas realizada hace más de 100 años
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Vampiro raboverde pero cuando me refiero a que me parezco a un vampiro me refiero a el
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“he’s a Stanislavsky maniac that’s what’s wrong with him!!” william dafoe gets a little silly in this one!! actually really good to as well also ☝️🙂↔️
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A secret history about the production of Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, starring Willem Dafoe as a vampire + John Malkovich as F.W. Murnau (and a solid cast overall). ~90 minute run time. Worth a peep if you like Dafoe/Vampires/Murnau/Nosferatu/Dracula.
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They could have extracted miles… astronomical light-years more out of this concept.
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Actually a great deal of fun to watch.
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The hunger is treated like a curse, which immediately makes it more interesting. This one works.
- Synopsis
- Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
- Director
- E. Elias Merhige
- Writer
- Steven Katz
- Studio
- BBC Film, Saturn Films, Long Shot Pictures, Pilgrim Films
- Country
- Luxembourg, UK, USA
- Language
- English, German
- Year
- 2000
- Runtime
- 95 mins
- France15 May 2000
- France08 Jun 2000
- Spain08 Oct 2000
- USA09 Oct 2000
- USA12 Oct 2000
- Sweden01 Nov 2000
- USA12 Nov 2000
- USA16 Nov 2000
- Hungary08 Oct 2001
- Iceland09 Nov 2001
- Philippines13 Feb 2003
- USA29 Dec 2000
- Belgium30 Aug 2000
- France29 Nov 2000
- Australia25 Jan 2001
- USA26 Jan 2001
- UK02 Feb 2001
- Spain02 Mar 2001
- Mexico09 Mar 2001
- Argentina22 Mar 2001
- Czechia12 Apr 2001
- Greece20 Apr 2001
- Denmark08 Jun 2001
- Peru14 Jun 2001
- Germany21 Jun 2001
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