Nosferatu the Vampyre

A wonderfully faithful recreation of F.W. Murnau's unofficial (and legally questionable) 1922 Dracula adaptation, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, Werner Herzog bucks tradition by providing a contemporary update to Murnau's classic, rather than the more popular, official Dracula franchise. Filled with gothic, German Expressionistic imagery and maintaining the eerie, stylized approach of the original, Herzog's horror classic retains the rodent-like appearance of Murnau's Count Dracula and aligns itself thematically with the original's allegory for the bubonic plague. A must for all Universal classic monster lovers.