Although I'm not a huge fan of Dracula films, this is one of the most engaging silent films in the history of cinema. F.W. Murnau knew how to create an excellent atmosphere with phenomenal set and art design. It's just as brilliant today as it ever was.

Count Orlock was like “dammn your wife has a nice neck 🥵” I put the movie playing on plex on mute and played the original score by Hans Erdmann from youtube. It’s cool to see a horror movie influenced by the plague going on in real-time in the 1920’s, makes me think there will be some good horror films to come out of this pandemic (I guess I could count Pearl as one), sad that it doesn’t show the vampire that much. It’s quite slow paced and I don’t think every movie from this time was…

The fact that I watched an hour and a half film for maybe like five minutes that were good is crazy. Thank God for Robert Eggers for making a watchable version of this story. Edit: I watched it and said I will not be influenced by this in the slightest. Nothing happens till literally the last five minutes. And half of that is filler. The character of knock serves no purpose past sending Hutter to Nosferatu. And so much screen time is devoted to him. Also why is count orlock even moving to wisborg to begin with? He doesn’t learn about Ellen till hutter shows up. 

What really stood out to me is how much experimentation is happening in almost every frame. The dozen novel filmmaking techniques in this blow my mind. From the tints used to depict different times of night and day to the use of speed ramps to show Orlok as an anomaly of a freak creature. That uncanny stop-motion movement must've had kids back then have some really rough nights. Great music, great atmosphere, questionable bald cap.