Nosferatu

Throughout the course of this blog, I will be doing my own personal summary on the horror film's I have watched and that have inspired me. So here it goes...

Year: 1922, unauthorised German adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula

Director: F. W. Murnau

Interesting fact: Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema" in 2010

Nosferatu – A Dracula based film. It’s creates suspense and scares the audience, even without the use of dialogue. From watching ‘Nosferatu’, I perceive the importance of music and the significance in creating dramatic enhancement to a scene, which has now become iconic.

‘Nosferatu’ uses shadows, which is one of the crucial inspirations I have had, I feel it creates a climax of tension, especially when the orchestra plays simultaneously, making the scene thrilling. The themes of female vulnerability and self-sacrifice are intriguing. The death of Count Orlock was the first death by sunlight in the history of vampire fiction. This is what makes it unique for me, I particularly enjoyed the costume and Mise en scène, which sets the dark undertone of horror through the film.