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Nosferatu [VHS] [1922]

VHS ~ Max Schreck

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Actors: Max Schreck, Greta Schr�der, Ruth Landshoff, Gustav von Wangenheim, Alexander Granach
Directors: F.W. Murnau
Writers: Bram Stoker, Henrik Galeen
Producers: Albin Grau, Enrico Dieckmann
Format: Digital Sound, HiFi Sound, PAL, Silent
Language English
Classification: PG
Studio: Eureka Entertainment
VHS Release Date: 22 Jan 2001
Run Time: 90 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (44 customer reviews)

ASIN: B000056BY9
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,131 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)
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"Nosferatu ... the name alone can chill the blood!". F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, released in 1922, was the first (albeit unofficial) screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Nearly 80 years on, it remains among the most potent and disturbing horror films ever made. The sight of Max Schreck's hollow-eyed, cadaverous vampire rising creakily from his coffin still has the ability to chill the blood. Nor has the film dated. Murnau's elision of sex and disease lends it a surprisingly contemporary resonance. The director and his screenwriter Henrik Gaalen are true to the source material, but where most subsequent screen Draculas (whether Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Frank Langella or Gary Oldman) were portrayed as cultured and aristocratic, Nosferatu is verminous and evil. (Whenever he appears, rats follow in his wake.)

The film's full title--Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror)--reveals something of Murnau's intentions. Supremely stylised, it differs from Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919) or Ernst Lubitsch's films of the period in that it was not shot entirely in the studio. Murnau went out on location in his native Westphalia. As a counterpoint to the nightmarish world inhabited by Nosferatu, he used imagery of hills, clouds, trees and mountains (it is, after all, sunlight that destroys the vampire). It's not hard to spot the similarity between the gangsters in film noir hugging doorways or creeping up staircases with the image of Schreck's diabolic Nosferatu, bathed in shadow, sidling his way toward a new victim. Heavy chiaroscuro, oblique camera angles and jarring close-ups--the devices that crank up the tension in Val Lewton horror movies and edgy, urban thrillers such as Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice--were all to be found first in Murnau's chilling masterpiece. --Geoffrey Macnab

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The original full-length fully restored version of the silent horror classic. Also features the trailer 'Shadow Of The Vampire'.

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5.0 out of 5 stars an embarrasment of riches., 14 Sep 2007

By	J. Rae (scotland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Nosferatu (Definitive Fully-restored version with original score) [Masters of Cinema] [1921] [DVD] (DVD)

The Eureka edition of Nosferatu includes the following:
a 2 x DVD special edition of the 2007 F.W. Murnau-Stiftung restoration plus original score. This edition of NOSFERATU features Hans Erdmann's original music for the first time since the film's initial release in the 1920s. The original score in paper form has been located (no original recordings were ever made, it was only performed live in the 1920s). A lush, orchestral recording of this original score has been performed by Radio Symphony Orchestra Saarbr�cken conducted by Berndt Heller
+ Full-length audio commentary by Brad Stevens and R. Dixon Smith - film historian.
+ A 96-page book containing articles by David Skal (author of Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen); Thomas Elsaesser (author of Weimar Cinema and After: Germany's Historical Imaginary); Gilberto Perez (author of The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium); Enno Patalas (former director of the M�nchner Stadtmuseum/Filmmuseum, where he was responsible for the restoration of many German classics, including Nosferatu); a newly translated archival piece on vampires by the film's producer Albin Grau; notes on the film's restoration; and archival imagery
- 53-minute German documentary about Murnau and the making of Nosferatu complete with fascinating footage of the film's locations today
- Restoration demonstration
there might be a few other extras but nothing confirmed at this time.
The cover art is taken from Albin Grau's poster of the time.
On top of this edition "KINO" films is releasing their own version AND there is a groovy "STEELBOOK" edition available from AMAZON.DE which I have pre-ordered. It boasts amongst other things a picture gallery and a 60 minute documentary by Luciano Berriat�a
about the director FW Murnau called "the language of shadows". The commentary on the 1970s version of Nosferatu by Werner Herzog states Nosferatu as the greatest German film of all time.

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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best version you will ever see, 8 Oct 2007

By	mark river "spree" (berlin) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nosferatu (Definitive Fully-restored version with original score) [Masters of Cinema] [1921] [DVD] (DVD)

Finally! This is one release I have been waiting for with great anticipation, ever since I heard it was being restored and I can safely say, it was well worth the wait. Indeed, it is an absolute masterpiece! Its a definitive must have, for anyone who is interested in silent film. I own the beautiful steelbook german edition from Transit (as i live in Berlin) but please note, it is entirely w/o English subtitles!
The film itself looks utterly incredible. We have never seen it look so good.The picture is crystal clear, sharp and very detailed, its practically flawless.
The original colour tinting, brings the chapters alive. All previous releases literally pale in comparison.
I already own the soundtrack score from a 1995 RCA/BMG cd, but combined with the moving images and in 5.1 Nosferatu looks and sounds wonderful. Although I must say I really enjoyed the James Bernard score for the BFI release, this is the way it was intened to be heard. Therefore, I highly recommend this splendid dvd and by buying it you support the hard work that went into its reconstruction and invest in future releases to come. Congratulations to Transit on their excellent work in restoring this and other classics, such as Battleship Potemkin, Metropolis or Der Golem. Well done!

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5.0 out of 5 stars The stuff of nightmares, 20 April 2002

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This review is from: Nosferatu (1922) - Two-disc set [DVD] (DVD)

"Nosferatu" directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau in 1921, is still the most impressive interpretation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula".

The film is beautifully photographed with exterior sets photographed in real locations. The interiors are equally realistic and well-thought out. But, it is the work of Albin Grau that added the surrealistic terror the pervades the entire film. Grau was the art director responsible for the sets, costumes and make-up.

Max Shreck as Count Orlok makes a terrifying figure, tall and thin with rodent features and fangs like spikes whose clawed hands appear more enormous from scene to scene. Orlok seems somehow to be propelled by external dark forces, particularly in one scene where he shifts from a lying position, in his coffin, to an upright standing position in a hearbeat. It is scenes like this (combined with the lack of dialogue) that somehow give the film its terrible nightmare quality. The film is full of atmosphere and so well crafted that it doesn't need to rely on cheap props or lots of mist and fog to hide dodgy sets.

The DVD presentation is superb. I'm not sure the modern electronic score is appropriate to some parts of the film but, in places it is quite brilliant with its gothic sensibilities.

Essential viewing for the horror enthusiast.

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