Quartile rating: 8/10 · 1 rating
A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.
Herzog's Nosferatu is a haunting, meditative reimagining of Murnau's classic, distinguished by Klaus Kinski's otherworldly, genuinely pitiful performance as the Count and Bruno Ganz's understated work as Jonathan Harker. The cinematography is stunning — vast, desolate landscapes and candlelit interiors evoke a dreamlike dread that few horror films match. Its novelty lies in transforming the vampire myth into an existential meditation on death, loneliness, and the burden of immortality, making it feel wholly singular despite its remake status. The plot follows the familiar Dracula framework closely, which limits its narrative ambition, and the ending, while tonally bold and memorably bleak, feels slightly uneven in its pacing before the final payoff.