Following Gus Van Sant’s provocative shot-for-shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” the first-ever video release of Werner Herzog’s “Nosferatu, the Vampyre,” long one of home video’s most requested titles, is especially timely.Herzog considers his 1979 film, originally distributed by 20th Century Fox, more “a new version” rather than a remake of F.W. Murneau’s 1922 silent […]

PG • 1 hour 47 min • 2013

Werner Herzog, 101mins. Starring: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani

Like Shakespeare's Hamlet and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of those stories that is re-made on a fairly consistent basis. If you don't like the latest incarnation of the count, wait a few years and there will be another...

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Herzog succeeds in imprinting the material with his own unique sensibility.

Klaus Kinski is genuinely scary as the bloodthirsty Count in Werner Herzog's homage to the 1922 FW Murnau movie, writes Peter Bradshaw

There is a quality to the color photography in Werner Herzog's "Nosferatu the Vampyre" that seeps into your bones. It would be inadequate to call it

★★★★☆ The second Nosferatu rerelease in as many weeks (F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic rose from its eternal slumber once again last Friday), cult...

Werner Herzog's classic vampire movie Nosferatu will scare the living daylights out of you

Receiving an extended run as part of the BFI’s Gothic season, Werner Herzog’s 1979 fang-tastic (sorry) film is a chilling remix of Bram