shlaifu wrote:
King0fSpades wrote:
Noserfatu is another good one. A classic German silent horror movie. It's an obvious ripoff of Dracula but it did many things better than Bram Stoker's novel or the official Hollywood adaption.
you're talking F.W.Murnau, right? - yes, German expressionist films are great - so great Tim Burton built a career on ripping them off.
there's a remake of Nosferatu by Werner Herzog. it's pretty good.
what I like about it is that it's a historical film, the costumes and sets are there (shot in Delft, in the Netherlands) but they didn't do much in the sense of creating an eerie, surreal atmosphere. Daylight is just natural light, the caskets are just plain, freshly cut wood - no dust and cobwebs on them - just as you'd expect it in a surprise wave of mysterious deaths sweeping through the city.
It gives the film a strange realism, that contrasts well with Kinski's Vampire.
I never realized Tim Burton ripped them off? I used to love many of his movies when I was younger like Sleepy Hollow and Sweeney Todd, but... I dunno. Hollowood (pun intended) has lost much of its appeal to me lately.
I never watched the Nosferatu: The Vampyre but I have seen the trailers for it and it looked really good. I think they have it on Tubi TV so maybe I'll check it out someday?
There's so many horror movies I never watched before that I want to finish. The Beyond (finished half of it), Suspiria, etc. I'm sure there's others too.
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