
Jonathan Harker is sent away to Count Dracula's castle to sell him a house in Wismar where Jonathan lives. But Count Dracula is a vampire, an undead ghoul living off of men's blood. Inspired by a photograph of Lucy Harker, Jonathan's wife, Dracula moves to Wismar, bringing with him death and plague... An unusually contemplative version of Dracula, in which the vampire bears the curse of not being able to get old and die.... (Full plot summary below)
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Jonathan Harker is sent away to Count Dracula's castle to sell him a house in Wismar where Jonathan lives. But Count Dracula is a vampire, an undead ghoul living off of men's blood. Inspired by a photograph of Lucy Harker, Jonathan's wife, Dracula moves to Wismar, bringing with him death and plague... An unusually contemplative version of Dracula, in which the vampire bears the curse of not being able to get old and die.
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| GuardianPeter BradshawThis is Herzog's journey to the heart of darkness, a film that specifically echoes his earlier offerings The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and his South American odyssey Aguirre, Wrath of God. |
| StarburstAndrew PollardNot a single drop of blood is wasted here, and the film's elegantly tragic narrative features not one moment of wasted motion. |
| The A.V. ClubNick SchagerWith quiet, seething intensity, Kinski turns Dracula into a simultaneously sinister and sympathetic creature—one whose viciousness curdles the blood, even as his fanged ferocity comes across as merely a wounded-animal reaction to his eternal loneliness. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatNosferatu explores the Dracula legend in a way that is both serious and seductive. |
| Nolan's Pop Culture ReviewMichael A. SmithTo be honest, Kinski would scare me if I met him on the street! |
| Time OutKeith UhlichThis is a pinnacle of horror cinema: atmospheric, rhapsodic and -- especially in the slow-burn confrontations between Lucy and her otherworldly inamorato -- achingly transcendent. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertNosferatu the Vampyre cannot be confined to the category of "horror film." It is about dread itself, and how easily the unwary can fall into evil. |
| Electric SheepJohn BleasdaleNothing goes bang in the night. Rather there is a continuous unsettling drone screech of everything going wrong all the way through. |
| Independent (UK)Geoffrey MacnabWerner Herzog's venture to Transylvania seems as much inspired by German romantic art (Caspar David Friedrich, especially) as by Bram Stoker or Bela Lugosi. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyWerner Herzog's classic vampire movie Nosferatu will scare the living daylights out of you. |