Nosferatu
December 27th, 2009 by John WolfeOne of the most well-known scenes from the 1922 film, Nosferatu has been given a score update by Yt user, McrawfishMac. While I have seen this particular scene many times, until today, I had never actually watched the entire movie. After viewing the classic film in its entirety, I am partial to the new and improved “soundtrack” featured in this six minute clip.
It’s my opinion that no matter how hard Hollywood tries, despite all its current special effects technology, it will never create a vampire as freaky or imposing as Nosferatu. If you’re interested in watching the entire film (with an older musical score), you can do so via this player:
Source: YT user, LuckyStrike502
December 28th, 2009 at 1:15 am
Thanks for sharing that. I was talking about that this Halloween. Someone asked me if I’d seen Nosferatu. Except for scene excerpts, I’d never seen the whole movie. They asked why, and I said, “I don’t think I’d like a horor movie that’s silent.” Still, I’d seen the character on a lot of clips in school cinema classes (back when I wanted to be a movie critic in college). I made a mental note to sit through it, but never got around to it. Seeing the clip with music made me wonder why not release more silent movies that way? People might actually watch them if they had some mood added to them. Cool find! And, yes, I will be seeing the whole movie, probably this next weekend when I finally get some time to catch up on my creepy fix.
December 28th, 2009 at 2:11 am
Dude, that first video was freakin awesome!!! Perhaps I’m a bit strange and old fashioned but I really ADORE the musical score that was set to this video. If I didn’t know any better I would swear that was part of the movie. It’s a perfectly chosen piece and really sucked me in again to where for 6 minutes I was dazing heavily into the monitor!!! Wow, now this Dracula is a far cry from Frank Langella as Dracula in 1979
It’s also interesting to note just how long humanity has had this love affair with Dracula. I’m sure it actually spans a long ways back but it’s one legend that never seems to die down. However, the first video was fantastic. I could watch silent movies set to awesome scores like that all day, speaking of which is when I’ll have to take a peak at the second video…when I have more time. I do love your digging John. Most unique every single time. Keep it up and don’t forget (**ahem**) voice overs. Thank you deeeeeeeeeeeeeply 
December 28th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
autumnforest,
You’re a lot like me when it comes to silent films. Though I love old movies — especially anything by the Marx Brothers or Laurel and Hardy — I’ve never gotten into the silent ones. Nosferatu isn’t a perfect film by any means, however, for its day, it had to be amazing. And, of course, it set the stage for every vampire movie since 1922. From a historical perspective, I’d say it’s a must-see for any Halloween/vampire/horror enthusiast. Plus, it builds up the scare factor through suspense and mood as opposed to gore. That fact alone makes it worth its weight in gold to me.
Goldie,
I agree with you. I think the modern sound helps the movie in a big way. Nosferatu, in my opinion, has to be one of the “best looking” vampires ever used in a film, in the way vampires were truly meant to look. He definitely wasn’t intended to be a sex symbol.
This character scared the hell out of me as a kid. Though I had never seen the film, I used to find stills from the movie in a lot of my childhood books on horror and Halloween.
Though I may be wrong, I think the earliest origins of the concept of Dracula came from Vlad the Impaler. And I believe he dated back somewhere between the 10th and 14th Centuries. I’ll have to look that up. Vampires are absolutely a concept that’s been with us for centuries and will probably continue on for the rest of human history in one way or another.