Nosferatu (1922)

This was a silent horror film made around 1922 in Germany. This movie helped Bram Stoker's original Dracula gain more popularity. Mostly because the estate didn't want to give its rights, ensuing a legal complication.

While the novel was incredibly terrifying, this movie had its weight in delivering the frights and scares. The movie presents Nosferatu as the Dracula equivalent. Hutter as the Jonathan Harker character. It copies almost everything until the scenes in the shipyards. Roughly around half of the original source. The movie omits a big part of Van Helsing's involvement including the correspondences of Mina Harker with some of her friends. Plus, in the novel there were female vampires, and they were freaky. They might have excluded them as it would make the film way longer. It also omits the hunting of Dracula as a conclusion. In the movie, the ending felt flat. Like it was resolved just so it had to be resolved. (spoiler alert). Nosferatu bites a woman then dies.

 Nevertheless, this was scary. I never knew the flute can sound so haunting. And the use of light and shadows were terrific. I am uneducated in how much movie technology was available at the time but if this were the limits of the what was possible back then, It has since then come a long way.

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