Film review: Nosferatu

In the winter issue of Kerrang! magazine, Green Lung frontman Tom Templar waxed about his deep love of 1992 vampire blockbuster Bram Stoker’s Dracula. ​“It’s insanely high budget, it’s camp, it’s sexy, nightmarish,” he enthused. ​“It’s also about as big as gothic ever got, in terms of sheer big swings.” Seventy years prior to Francis Ford Coppola’s fang-fest, one might have said similar about Nosferatu. German filmmaker F. W. Murnau’s 1922 silent picture (A Symphony Of Horror, to give it its full title) may not quite have been the first ever vampire flick, but its big budget and original, envelope-pushing craft made it a landmark. Upon release, it landed its makers in hot water over its unlicensed and rather shameless ripping off of Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel (young estate agent...

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