Early account of Bram Stoker’s classic tale holds up incredibly well – it looks terrific (location filming helps), the broad performances suit the story, it has atmosphere to burn. Nosferatu’s bald, spike eared vampire is a long way from the smooth Lotharios we’ve come to know and love (although bald ugly vampires have made something of a comeback in recent years, if only as support players); still his love for Nina is touching, if only because she’s so out of his league. Not much screen time is given either to Nosferatu or Van Helsing – you see more Harker.
This is surprisingly naturalistic – none of your Caligari expressionism really. The climax desn’t make sense completely – wouldn’t Nosferatu know that sun light was bad for him?
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