Watching A 100 Year-Old Movie | *NOSFERATU* Reaction
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- The oldest movie I've ever seen. Hope you all enjoy my reaction to Noferatu as I watch it for the first time. #nosferatu
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Original Movie: Nosferatu (1922)
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This is a really interesting choice for a movie reaction. I hope it gains enough attention to encourage more like this.
Removes the danger of copyright claims if movie is over 95 years old...The first sound movies will be turning Public Domain in a year.
@@themoviedealers Great point! I think Freaks is only 90 years old, but it would be another interesting reaction!
Never forget when Spongebob made the punchline of an entire episode a reveal featuring a character from a silent German horror movie none of its child audience would even remotely recognize 💀
"If that was you on the phone and you on the bus, then who was flickering the lights?"
@@AlexSeverinski the primetime of spongebob, don't know why but it was hella funny even tho we were just around 8-10 years old.
I remember distinctly that I got the reference, because I was a weird child and still am, but it bugged be because I knew none of my friends would get it.
Luckily, I didn't have any, and still don't.
What a good episode
Steve Hillenburg was just brilliant. Spongebob wasnt the same after he left
In a German film class I took way back when, we told the teacher this and then showed her the clip. She was laughing more than we were.
Can I just say that this is fucking amazing?! I have so much respect for you for reacting to a film like this, I've never seen any reaction channel on UA-cam do something like this. Very awesome
You need to watch "Shadow of the Vampire" Brandon. It's a fictional horror movie about the making of Nosferatu, and the premise is that the director hired a real vampire for the movie. Willem Dafoe plays Count Orlock/Dracula, and he got an Oscar nomination for his performance. Trust me, it's a great film!
I second that, it's fantastic, it's funny, it's witty.
Yep! I first saw it back in 2001and it's still one of my favorite films. Dafoe was so funny and yet so creepy at the same time, and Udo Keir was fantastic. A genuine masterpiece, and a must-see for fans of the 1922 movie.
Guaranteed you will like it Brandon and you may be tempted to wait a while but i think it would be better to do it quicker as a follow-up.
Came here to comment that!
I came here to say this
If you want to watch more silent horror movies like this, I highly recommend Häxan, a sort of documentary/essay film about superstitions around witchcraft as well as the director’s study of the Malleus Maleficarium.
Coincidentally Häxan is also turning 100 years old this year!
You're getting your umlauts wrong, it's Häxan.
Håxan would be pronounced more like "Hoxan" and Häxan is more like "Hexan".
And Dr Mabuse The Gambler.
@@sebastiangron5050 Thanks for the correction, I don't know how I got those mixed around lol
Glad you’re back to doing movie reactions! I’ve missed them. And Nosferatu is a straight classic.
03:16 Fun fact: I used to live a few meters away from that location, in Lübeck. We even went to partys in those old buildings.
My hat is off to you. As somebody wrote below, seeing a reaction to a pre-1960s movie is rare and you did fine by it. Film history is so very rich but on You Tube I see the same 50 or so movies being watched. It's a shame, really. Well done!
Your film geekery just went up 1000 XP. 🙌🏻
Interesting to know that the Exorcist was made almost 50 years after this film and now, it's been almost 50 years since the Exorcist was made. 2 of my favorite horror films.
I legit laughed at “butter”. That was great man 🤣🤌.
Lots of creepy shots too 👀
I find that the biggest barriers for people in terms of enjoying old silent movies tends to be less the subtitles and silence, more the style of acting, which regardless of situation, largely tended to be = because of the lack of dialogue, highly demonstrative, both in terms of physicality and facial expressions.
Welcome to German expressionist cinema. I hope you continue your journey into this most fascinating period of cinematic history. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, as recommended by more than a few folks here, is another great one. You watch that film and you see that Tim Burton took a lot from that film and applied it to films like Edward Scissorhands and Beetlejuice. The other film I recommend is Metropolis.. it could easily be considered the first SciFi film ever made.
Some other absolute must-see horror flicks from the silent era:
-The Haunted Castle (1896)
-A Trip to the Moon (1902)
-L’Inferno (1911)
-The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
-The Phantom Carriage (1921)
-Häxan (1922)
-The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
-The Phantom of the Opera (1925 version, not the shorter 1929 rerelease)
-Metropolis (complete version, 1927)
-The Man Who Laughs (1928)
Colours are originally printed on the film, yellow daytime and blue nightime
Heck yes. Halloween came early this year. Great reaction as usual!
You said it, Brandon: this movie is perfect evidence that story is king. (And also: storytelling!)). You did this movie GREAT!!! I LOVE silent movies, some of the best movies I've ever seen are from that era, including three from the director of this movie (F.W. Murnau): "Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans", hands down, one of the best ever. Also "Faust" and "The Last Laugh". For other silent stuff: Douglas Fairbanks (Sr.) and Buster Keaton: both will BLOW YOUR MIND with the stunts (and the stories and performances) in their movies. Keaton is hilarious: "One Week" is only twenty minutes and totally iconic. HIghly recommend that. Also "The General" and "Sherlock Jr." And superheroes and action movies BEGIN with Fairbanks' "The Mark Of Zorro", which kicked off a string of classic action films. He's the original and the best of them all, the first "King of Hollywood". Anyways, THANK YOU, and I hope you hit more silents from time to time!
Well, I can't believe what I'm seeing! A young UA-cam viewer watching a SILENT black-and-white movie from the previous century? Yes, silent movies have "dialogue cards" when pantomime fails.;) Silent films were tinted certain colors to evoke the atmosphere before color movie film was available. I had seen Silent films in full monochrome before, but when I saw the tinted version of "Nosferatu," on Turner Classic Movies, it heightened the mood.
After this, you may get some fun out of watching the "Shadow of the Vampire" which is a fiction about the making of this movie where Max Schreck is so scary because he's an _actual_ vampire.
You're spot on with some of your thought on symbolism. The original vampire scares (much like witch hunts before) were often to do with actual calamities, such as a plague. Also the aspect of sin and sexual desire is totally something that Bram Stoker added to the vampire myth. That spawned the vampire as the charismatic tempter.
From the same period there is what is considered the first proper horror movie (1920) and a landmark that had huge influence on the horror and noir film and also considered the crown jewel of German cinematic expressionism of the 1920's, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Each strip of film was physically dyed to the color that Murnau the director wanted.
Great as usual, a good follow up would be The Cabinet Of Doctor Caligari
Hard to imagine we went from the monstera of Nosferatu to the gliter boys of Twilight in only 86 years.
"Shadow of the Vampire". Willem Dafoe as the actor that plays Nosferatu ...if he really were a vampire.
When judging by the techniques available, this is my favorite horror movie. It was groundbreaking.
Now you can watch Shadow of the Vampire (2000) that tells the story of the making of it. (Well, how it *could* have been done anyway, if they had hired a real vampire to play Graf Orlok.)
I've always respected your love for movies no matter what the genre or decade, as long as the movies are good, which is absolutely the right philosophy to have as a life-long cinephile, 'cause you never know when or where a good movie will pop up. Your reaction to one of my favorite movies ever 12 Angry Men when nobody else was reacting to anything even close to the 1950s was really entertaining, and showed me how appreciative of the great directors and films that came before you really are. Keep up the great work, Brandon! And if you liked Nosferatu I'd definitely recommend German director Fritz Lang's "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", it has a very similar vibe and came out around the same time, except the visuals are even more surreal and the story even stranger!
I have a black and red Nosferatu shirt with the image of Count Orlock on the ship...absolutely one of my most prized possessions. But yeah an Absolute Classic and their in the works for Nosferatu Remake from the director of Hereditary and Midsommer.
Oh hell yes! This is a fantastic movie if you're in the mood.
I haven't seen that movie but watching your reactions are always so fun!!
This past weekend a movie theater here in Brazil did a special session of Nosferatu to celebrate it's 100 years, the movie was being shown while a cover band played Kid A and Amnesiac by Radiohead, it was absolutely awesome and it managed to make some scenes from this movie even more eerie
Robert Eggers has had a Nosferatu film in production for a while now, very excited. Hope he gets to make it one day
Trailer looks incredible
@@Sam-pr9rr good to hear, I’m steering clear of it. Want to go in as blind as possible 🙂
Little tip for u Brandon :) : the classics silent movies have multiple copies on film and the music wasn't systematically composed for a movie at time (specially before the 20s and specially during german expressionism where movies were cheaper). The version on film that you saw isn't the original but one of the multiple existing copies of the negative. Same for the music which is probably not the original too and idk if the original movie was coloured by filters. You can see other versions of Nosferatu on YT with creepier musics (made recently ofc).
Actually this is the version with the original music by Hans Erdmann, which he had composed for the premiere of 'Nosferatu - Eine Symphony des Grauens" in 1922.
Occassionally for some silent movies, which were made for special prestige, an original score was composed to be played at the premiere and in selected greater movie theaters as well, which could afford to employ an own orchestra.
( With the introduction of sound in movies by 1929/30 all these movie theater musicians would loose their jobs over night.)
For 'Nosferatu - Eine Symphony des Grauens' Hans Erdmann ( 1882 - 1942 ) was comissioned to compose the music for the premiere at the Marble Hall in the Zoo of Berlin on March, the 04th., 1922.
For the premiere he provided an arrangement for big orchestra, the one to be heard here.
But he also arranged some orchestrations for smaller ensembles.
This music of Erdmann was rediscovered and restored in the eighties of the last century and is also the one to be heard in this edition of 'Nosferatu'.
This edition of the movie
was done on basis of a new movie
restoration by the 'Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung' and released by Transit-Film /
( UfA - Universum Film ) in 2007.
The only difference to that DVD/Blue-ray edition is that the uploader obviously reduced the original monochrome-tinted colors of the restoration to a black&white image, I assume to avoid copyright issues. But otherwise the movie is completely equal to that edition.
The music was newly recorded by the Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Saarbrücken, Germany, under the direction of music restorator, Berndt Heller.
This is also the symphony orchestra of my hometown, and I'm happy that by that my hometown had a considerable part in restoring this classic movie as closely as possible to the original and how it probably could have be seen ( and heard ) at its premiere in 1922.
But since the seventies several composers and bands have tried their own scores for 'Nosferatu' .
One of the first for instance was the one by Hans Posegga, another prolific German film composer, who wrote a score, that was heavily based on pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach.
In 2003 José Maria Sánchez-Verdú from Spain wrote another score for live screenings.
In 2015 Matthew Aucoin composed a score for a live screening in Los Angeles.
To name just a few.
But as said this score here is the original one, which was played at the premiere in 1922.
There are a handful of silent films that are essential for any film student. This is one.
Checkout the 2000 film ''Shadow of the Vampire'' with Willem Dafoe and John Malkovich. It's a fictional telling of the making of 'Nosferatu,' but with a twist. The actor is a real vampire ! Also the 3 part 2020 mini-series 'Dracula,' from the makers/writers of 'Sherlock.'
Great review! Please do Phantom Of The Opera next!
I have to disagree with your opinion that cleaning up the grainy look of the film and removing the projector's flicker would improve the movie. That's part of the film, and part of the look that gives it its distinctive silent film look.
If you enjoyed this masterpiece, I’d definitely recommend checking out “Shadow Of A Vampire” which is a fictional take on the making of this film and also “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” which I believe is the best interpretation of the story that been filmed to date.
Knock looks like Count Olaf from Series of Unfortunate Events
The werewolf is actually a Striped Hyena. Almost no one had ever seen a Hyena before, so they could just get away it calling it a werewolf.
Nosferatu... *wags finger with a smirk
Now you should watch from the year 2000 'Shadow of the Vampire' Willem Defoe. It's about the making of this film. I really think you'll like it.
Prince Charles has a house in Transylvania, Count Vlad is in his family tree
Just reviewed this movie. And yes the first time I ever heard of this film is from Spongebob
I'm watching you from Sighișoara Romania
An excellent reaction to a movie I'm pretty sure I've never seen anyone pick. Is this a sign that we can look forward to you covering Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" in 2027? ^_~
you should also watch Faust and Metropolis
This was the first silent movie I ever saw. I was 3 and it absolutely terrified me. I had never seen a black and white film before, let alone a silent movie. Something about how old it looked and how strange it appeared to me really creeped me out. I felt like I was watching a haunted movie or something. Ever since then I have always found movies from the 1910s-1930s very unsettling. You are watching a movie where everyone in it is now dead and all that's left are their ghosts, trapped behind a screen and doomed to relive the same films for eternity. The grainy footage and lack of colour really gives you the feeling you are peering into a different dimension. The Dimension of the Dead.
Anyways, cool movie.
German-made films were very expressionist and experimental during this timeframe. The 3rd Reich put an end to that freedom, and explains why so many filmmakers and actors left Germany. First for England or France, and then onto America.
But American-made movies during this timeframe are far more traditional in their storytelling and filmmaking.
Not expecting this, this is awesome though!
So this was basically a lawyer friendly adaptation of the original Dracula novel, even before they made the movie Dracula.
I quite enjoyed the 1979 remake starring Klaus Kinski.
Spooky, scary!!!
While we're at the suckers, you absolutely Have to watch What We Do In The Shadows - The series! You liked the movie, and the show has far surpassed the movie in characters, humor, lore etc. Some amazing casting and guest appearances
Hey Brandon, (I don't know if You are but) if You are in need of a new show, I recommend checking the Leftovers out. It's an HBO show and I think it would be perfect for Your taste. It's a blend of sci-fi and psychology drama. My favorite show of all time by far!
Fun fact: this was the first time a vampire was destroyed by sunlight. That was never part of vampire lore prior to this.
Here's some interesting facts:
The 1922 Nosferatu film was based on the Bram Stoker's 1897 Dracula novel, so to try to avoid copyright, they changed the name from Count Dracula to Count Orlock and the title from Dracula to Nosferatu (another interesting fact about the word "Nosferatu" is that it's kinda "lost in time". While it's uncertain, the origin of the word is believed to be of Romanian and it was used in the Dracula novel as a synonym for "vampire".
These copyright issues was also the reason why the film was originally never released in America and only in Germany. However, it did end up being a victim of copyright and a court ruled all copies be destroyed! However, a few copies survived and today, the movie "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror" is known as one of the best and most influential horror films of all time.
Also, this film is still legendary in 2022.
Also when it was remade the villain went by Dracula because by then the character was public domain.
@@GiffTunes Klaus Kinski mvp xD
Cadinho Meireles Which you think is the definitive version of this movie? Because I have read that there are several of them
@@lukeizabelle2131 The version Brandon watched is more or less the "definitive" version (at least until another restoration happens), but my personal favorite is the 2002 Kino version. Night scenes are a darker blue, and the soundtrack has some neat pipe sounds (and cringe vocals in a couple spots).
@@Bioroid And which version did Brandon watch and does it have the original soundtrack since you've said that is the definitive one?
If you wanna check out some VERY old films that are quite amazing, watch The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Metropolis. Both are VERY good. You also can't go wrong with some oldies like Dracula (with Bela Lugosi), The Mummy, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein (probably the best of these), The Invisible Man, Wolfman... etc.
Or the Dracula and Frankenstein films from Hammer Studios with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. They are fantastic.
great suggestions!
Caligari and Metropolis are easily my favorite silent films
Nosferatu is a straightforward horror film (meaning metaphysical evil is physically real and can ultimately be defeated by purity and goodness, nothing wrong with that), Caligari is a postmodern, psychological horror film from 1920, almost before straightforward horror films existed - prefigured all the ‘psychological horror’ we think of as a contemporary genre.
Metropolis is a dazzling piece of film-making, but very flawed (incredibly trite ending)
Also the director of Nosferaru made another silent film considered one of the greatest of all time called Sunrise. A totally abstract story where characters are named ‘the Man’ and ‘the Woman’, set in ‘the City’. Hard to categorise, kind of a love story but very, very dark and tragic - but also comedic to the point where it has a scene of a pig getting drunk
Chris Lee will forever be my favorite Dracula!
Even for a silent film, this one still gives me the creeps to this day. It's basically an adaptation of the original Dracula novel, but with names changed
Yeah it was because stoker”s who was dead by this time, wife denied to sell the rights of the book to be made into a film so the director basically made some changes instead.
This is one of the most influential and surreal vampire films ever made.
There is even a movie called Shadow Of The Vampire, where us shows us what would happen if FW Murnau hired a real vampire instead of an actor.
The film stars Willem Dafoe and John Malkovich.
shadow of the vampire, famously directed by the director of the INSANE surrealist black and white cult classic BEGOTTEN.
If you want ‘surreal’ - my favourite old vampire movie/old horror movie full-stop is Vampyr. 1932, so very early days of sound film - contains some of the eeriest sequences ever put to film, full of what I’d call ‘dark whimsy’
@@jack_rabbit I watched Begotten for the first time whilst tripping out. Do not recommend.
@@mysticsaxophone4181 ugh, I can only imagine!
You should surely add Shadow of the Vampire to your list now that you've seen this film.
P.S. "He definitely looks like a Butter." *Hahaha*
Parkay! 😂
This is the first time I've seen a reaction to a silent film or even to a film pre-1960s in general. Would definitely love more classic movie reactions!
Popcorn in Bed did a good review of Casablanca. hopefully you’ve seen the film.. if not, make sure to watch the actual film first
James VS Cinema has done 12 Angry Men, Some Like it Hot, Paths of Glory, The Third Man, and Rashomon. I'm one of a few Patreon supporters who have suggested M and Sunrise: A Story of Two Humans, and other pre-30s films.
@@brettcoster4781 I love Sunrise. I’ve seen Napoleon (1927), The Crowd (1928), The Last Laugh (1924), Dr Mabuse The Gambler (1922), Intolerance (1916) and Greed (1924).
@@brettcoster4781 If you can also suggest him The Phantom Carriage (1921), The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Freaks (1932), Double Indmenity (1944), Brief Encounter (1945), Late Spring (1949), Sunset Boulevard (1950), All About Eve (1950), Rear Window (1954) or Diabolique (1955). Those are some of the best pre-60s films ive seen.
@@kingamoeboid3887 The only films I've not seen of your list are The Crowd and Greed, otherwise they're all great films. So too is Pandora's Box, one of my very favourites. James has had M on his last Patreon lists, so hopefully it'll get up soon. But the Patreon supporters have a very wide list of great films that they suggest, which is why I love his reviews.
a movie i’d recommend is M (1931) by Fritz Lang, Lang was a prominent silent movie director and M was his first non-silent movie. It’s fascinating to watch just how much cinema evolved in such a short span of time as M’s camera moves and use of sound still hold up today when both of these aspects of film were virtually non existent prior
Metropolis came out 4 years before M
@@parsasadri8015 correct, kind of random though
@@finlaylonghurst I thought you said M was his first silent movie. I misread 🤦♂️🤣
@@parsasadri8015 no worries lol
So here’s the long and short of the filming locations:
Filming took place around Germany, and Slovakia.
Wismar stood in for Wisborg for the exterior shots of several locations.
The abandoned derelict house that Nosferatu moves into, is a set of old industrial buildings in Lübeck (also in northern Germany) called the Salzspeicher (salt storehouses).
Other location exteriors were shot in other areas of Germany notably Lauenburg and Rostock and on the island of Sylt.
Orava Castle in Slovakia stood in as Orlok’s castle for exterior shots only and is indeed still there, it’s a museum.
I think the shot of the castle destroyed at the end was filmed at Stary Hrad Castle (also Slovakia).
All interior shots were filmed at Johannisthal Studios in south east Berlin, founded in 1920 and some 400 silent films were made there, later it was used by the Weimar government of the 1920s and later the Nazis for film production. After the Second World War it fell into control of Soviet East Germany and since the 60s I think it’s used for television production.
I thought Orava Castle's interior was also used.
If you even kind of enjoyed this movie, you HAVE to watch The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. It's the other German expressionistic horror masterpiece of the 20s and in my opinion even better than Nosferatu. If you don't know anything about Caligari, I 100% guarantee you that it will blow your mind.
And the somnambulist in Dr. Caligari is played by Conrad Veidt, who played Colonel Strasser in Casablanca! Small world.
@@Divamarja_CA Yep. And he also played the titular role in The Man Who Laugh which inspired the character of the Joker
What about Metropolis?
@@primevaltimes Not a horror, but also an absolute masterpiece and my personal pick for the greatest movie ever made
Tim Burton must have loved Caligari. The set designs scream Burton.
Somehow, I watched this at the age of 17 and really liked it. It's a fascinating watch that managed to feel quite ominous. It is little wonder to me why this film has endured despite its outdated elements; this form of film still works extremely effectively on its own merits.
I love this film. My best experience with it was during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival a few years ago where I watched it in an old chapel with a live pianist and percussionist providing the soundtrack. It was amazing.
I’ll do you one better: I saw it in a chapel with a live *organist*, improvising on the pipe organ
Sounds incredible, just out of curiosity, were there a lot of goths there?
If you like the "really old movie" experience, watching "Metropolis" is a must. Several versions available. The set's and cinematography were amazing for their day and are still impressive to look at now.
I second this recommendation!
A few years back, for my birthday, my daughter took me to see the film at a modern concert hall, with a Live chamber orchestra... it was one of the coolest experiences of my life!
The Spanish Flu ran from about 1918 to 1920.
Some other silent movies to see...
"The Phantom of the Opera" 1925 with Lon Cheny. Not only did it feature Cheny's own character design and makeup, and include a legendary reveal, it also had some of the first color sequences in film history.
"Faust" 1926 by Murnau. It is a good telling of the story of a man who sells his soul and also has some good special effects for the era.
"Wings" from 1927. Not a horror movie but it is about WWI fighter pilots and includes groundbreaking camera work like the swing, cameras on planes filming the dogfights, and a travelling shot through a crowded club.
Would love to see someone do more silent film reactions. Definitely have to do some Charlie Chaplin movies "City Lights, "Modern Times", and "The Great Dictator". But of course Buster Keaton too "The General", "Sherlock Jr", and "The Cameraman".
For drama movies "Metropolis", "The Wind", "The Passion of Joan of Arc", "Sunrise: The song of two humans", and "Intolerance" I would recommend. Thing is I think all these movies are now copyright free and can be streamed right off of UA-cam.
Hi Brandon,
as you liked Nosferatu, try some other classic movies from that era: "The cabinet of Dr. Caligari" from 1920 and "Metropolis" from 1927. I'm sure you'll find them very interesting, too.
Dudeeeee! Let’s do more of these. Appreciate you setting a trend.
Love to see it
I’d also recommend phantom carriage. I think I saw that you purchased it in a haul video?
YES! Phantom Carriage is a must!
And The Best Years Of Our Lives.
I also suggest Sunrise (1927), my favorite from F.W. Murnau.
A lot of silent films don’t have a particular soundtrack going for it, most copy’s of them use random music depending on the version, so there could be a version that is less joyous ost wise
most showings at those times would have had (different) live piano music by local "cinema piano players", and at most could have had some sheet music distributed with the movie to serve as guideline for those local pianists who mostly improvised.
Actually this is the version with the original soundtrack composed by Hans Erdmann for the premiere in March 1922
Occassionally for some silent movies, which were made for special prestige, an original score was composed to be played at the premiere and in selected greater movie theaters as well, which could afford to employ an own orchestra.
( With the introduction of sound in movies by 1929/30 all these movie theater musicians would loose their jobs over night.)
For 'Nosferatu - Eine Symphony des Grauens' Hans Erdmann ( 1882 - 1942 ) was comissioned to compose the music for the premiere at the Marble Hall in the Zoo of Berlin on March, the 04th., 1922.
For the premiere he provided an arrangement for big orchestra, the one to be heard here.
But he also arranged some orchestrations for smaller ensembles.
This music of Erdmann was rediscovered and restored in the eighties of the last century and is also the one to be heard in this edition of 'Nosferatu'.
This edition of the movie
was done on basis of a new movie
restoration by the 'Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung' and released by Transit-Film /
( UfA - Universum Film ) in 2007.
The music was newly recorded by the Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Saarbrücken, Germany, under the direction of music restorator, Berndt Heller.
This is also the symphony orchestra of my hometown, and I'm happy that by that my hometown had a considerable part in restoring this classic movie as closely as possible to the original and how it probably could have be seen ( and heard ) at its premiere in 1922.
But since the seventies several composers and bands have tried their own scores for 'Nosferatu' .
One of the first for instance was the one by Hans Posegga, another prolific German film composer, who wrote a score, that was heavily based on pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach.
In 2003 José Maria Sánchez-Verdú from Spain wrote another score for live screenings.
In 2015 Matthew Aucoin composed a score for a live screening in Los Angeles.
To name just a few.
But as said this score here is the original one, which was played at the premiere in 1922.
The Werner Herzog version is definitely worth watching as well!
NOOOOOOOOOOOO 😠😡😡😡🤬.
You owe it to yourself to explore the work of Fritz Lang. He was the one of the most important filmmakers in cinema who popularized the most integral genres in the cinematic medium; sci-fi (1927's Metropolis), fantasy (1924's Die Nibelungen), crime (1922's Dr. Mabuse the Gambler), spy (1928's Spione) and the serial killer film (1931's M).
I believe that those genres would not become what they are today had it not been for Lang and his films, and if you decide to dig deeper, you may see that as well.
"Story is king." You have admirably summed up the secret to the longevity of many classic movies, no matter how long ago they were made. "Nosferatu" is a prime example of how to make a great film.
The color tinting was something done in post-production in the silent era. The film print, originally being black- and-white, would literally be immersed in dye baths to make it change to a desired color. Tints were very common during this time and were used to denote time of day, location, mood, etc.
The filters are the show the difference between day and night because in black and white it’s obvious they shot all Nosferatu scenes during daylight so the blue tint is at night the yellow tint is during the day
There's another silent film by Fritz Lang called Die Nibelungen that might be worth checking out. Extremely impressive for a film made in 1924.
As was Dr Mabuse. Frau Im Mond (Woman in the Moon) is also worthwhile (it invented the rocket countdown). And others like Spiones (Spys), but I didn't. Fritz Lang's 30's and 40's American films have some standouts, too.
@@brettcoster4781 I do love The Big Heat (1953), first film I saw Lee Marvin in. I've seen the Dr Mabuse trilogy, Secrets Beyond The Door, M and Metropolis (my favourite from Fritz Lang).
Shadow of the Vampire is one of my favorite movies of all time and sadly it isn’t anywhere on streaming so…..in recent years people seem to be forgetting about it. Dafoe and Malkovich are incredible in it…and Dafoe deserves every accolade he has ever gotten for it. The concept is absolutely genius. Despite the dark humor in it…it is equally terrifying!
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This is a stunning movie that puts many a modern filmmaker to shame. And can I just say I am always very impressed with Greta Schroeder's performance as Ellen, she makes one care more than anyone else in this movie. You might also enjoy The Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney from 1925.
Now you’re ready to watch Shadow of the Vampire, a bizarre horror film about the making of Nosferatu starring John Malkovich as Murnau, and Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck. The central conceit is that Schreck was actually a vampire.
Edited to add: also, Werner Herzog remade Nosferatu in 1979, with Klaus Kinski as the vampire. It’s a visual feast, and Kinski is amazing in it.
What I find interesting about the early days of the movies is filmmakers creating in a completely new medium. Trying to figure out the best way to tell a story on film. It went from just filming a static play to what we recognized what a movie is today.
German silent movies in the 1920's were among the most innovative and creative of their time, especially with directors like Murnau or Lang.
Fantastic reaction as always man.
Would love to see you react to the 70s remake by Werner Herzog. One of the best remakes ever
i saw this at a silent movie theatre a few months ago, they had a really old man playing the organ and (i think) it was projected on film. the experience was legit magical
Please watch Cabinet of Dr. Caligari next! I always watch them together as a silent horror double feature. You'll get to see where Tim Burton bit all his style from.
Well, now that you've watched this, you have to watch The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
It's amazing for such an old film
As a Romanian, I take offense to that: "Land of thieves and phantoms", bratty little german director guy. I lived there 23 years and never saw one phantom.
For the ninetieth anniversary (so, ten years ago), I got a chance to see this in a theater with a live orchestra providing the music. It was a terrific experience befitting such an iconic film.
Kudos to you for selecting an eclectic, offbeat, forgotten classic..
Hope you continue to set yourself apart from the crowd, with the occasional unexpected film choice.
You need to watch the BBC Dracula miniserie, I think is in netflix
Then who was turning off the lights…?
Nosferatuuuuu!!!
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Love that you reacted to this movie! I think it's pretty much required viewing for horror heads. If you liked this one, you should see Häxan (1922). It's a Swedish silent film about witches and witchcraft, and I think it's creepier than Nosferatu.
Yes, some scholars would say that there are two "plagues" in Dracula, Bram Stoker's book. One is tuberculosis. This is also linked with lust/seduction. Tuberculosis was notorious for taking out whole families one by one, or one's most intimate relations. It also left rosy cheeked corpses as if the dead were just sleeping. The other "plague" was immigration. Let's face it, xenophobia or fear of the "other" is one of the pillars of horror. In this case, immigrants from eastern Europe (euphemism?) were blamed for the spread of diseases like tuberculosis.
If I recall correctly, in the book Dracula could turn into bats, rats, wolves and fog. I may be missing a few things. I'ma go watch more of your reviews now!
BELEZA ! ! ! eu. tenho. o. DVD. desse. filme. NOSFERATO. uma. sinfonia. de. horror. de. 1922. ainda. era. cinema. mudo. comprei. nas. LOJAS. AMERICANAS. em. 2008. 👍👍😃🇧🇷
I've seen Nosferatu in the cinema with live accompaniment by an organist, who played both music and sound effects. It was wonderful!
This sounds phenomenal
I watched charlie Chaplin's silent film the kid a few years ago
It was hilarious if you want to opposite end of the silent film spectrum
I definitely recommend Werner Herzog‘s more modern approach to NOSFERATU.
You should watch a silent film called THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE. It's an amazing movie.
Great adaptation of Dracula. I spent one Halloween weekend watching 5 Dracula adaptations:
Nosferatu(1922)
Dracula(1931)
Horror of Dracula(1958)
Nosferatu(1979)
Bram Stoker's Dracula(1992)
All unique takes on the Dracula story.
The original Bram Stoker novel comes highly recommended.
Please watch Lawrence of Arabia sometime, it's great and it influenced many directors, like Kubrick, Scorsese, Lucas and Spielberg
PLEASE watch The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari ... another cornerstone of modern horror.