Nosferatu The Vampyre review

Related Articles

Rode RodeCaster Pro II review: “An encompassing solution for all creators”

July 15, 2022

Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 review

December 7, 2020

Le Mans ’66 (Ford v Ferrari) review: “Full-throttle racing sequences and charismatic performances”

November 15, 2019

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 Stoker’s Dracula and F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic Nosferatu , at times echoing the latter almost shot-for-shot.

Klaus Kinski is marvellous as the Count, who scents blood when he meets Bruno Ganz’s Jonathan Harker and becomes enamoured by his innocent spouse (Isabelle Adjani).

Madness and death hang over Herzog’s Wagner-scored vision like a black cloud, while Kinski adds much poignancy to Dracula, the lonely immortal.