Notes on…

Nosferatu the Vampyre(1979)

Dir. Directed by Werner Herzog

My heart simply wasn't into Herzog's particular kind of weirdness when watching this, alas.


Nosferatu the Vampyre [is] a careful reworking of and elaborate homage to F.W. Murnau’s 1922 film, and also a good indication that weirdness in the movies arrives and vanishes as it is needed or not, like the attention of the court in Kafka’s The Trial: ‘it receives you when you come and it dismisses you when you leave.’ But why do we come?

Michael Wood (London Review of Books)

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Synopsis: A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.