Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979)'s comments

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Torgo

This must be one of the most atmospheric horror films of all time and even stands the comparison to its silent precedessor. I'm stunned. (Another masterpiece of Werner Herzog, by the way :p )

11 years 3 months ago

Idiotwind

Both Hypnotic and frightening. Herzog is a genius.

12 years 6 months ago

Camille Deadpan

The cinematography! Isabelle Adjani! She's so amazingly beautiful.

10 years ago

I don't understand people that label a film as being "crap." To look at something, that a group of artists and technicians have poured months or possibly even years of their lives into, and then just label it as "crap" and then dismiss it entirely with such self-righteousness, seems so crazy to me (not to mention extremely lazy film criticism.) There are plenty of films that I do not enjoy or just downright loathe but I understand that they just weren't made for me. I recently watched The Phantom Menace and did not enjoy it and saw many problems with the film but I could still see how someone else could have a good time with it.

10 years 4 months ago

Siskoid

Werner Herzog's take on Dracula, Nosferatu the Vampyre (or more properly "the Phantom of the Night") is hugely atmospheric - those night scenes! that fog! - and dream-like - that ascent to the castle! those eerie empty streets! - and more introspective too, with a grotesque Count who sees immortality as a curse, What sets it apart for me is just how impotent the male characters are, leaving Lucy Harker (classic Lucy-Mina switcheroo, I guess it's only ever about which name you prefer) to risk the ultimate sacrifice to rid her city of the plague (a well-realized element taken from Murnau's Nosferatu). In contrast, Harker succumbs to madness, Van Helsing evokes reason and science where neither has hold and spends all his time telling Lucy she's delusional, and Dracula himself is a pathetic worm with a death wish. It ends up being a bleak, deconstructionist vision, but it adds something to the canon. And it features what I found the be the most viscerally effective neck sucking scene in vampire cinema.

3 years 6 months ago