#nosferatu (1922)

[hail-to-the-pumpkin-song]

Hate it when that happens.

[quasi-normalcy]

So I'm thinking about how horror was transformed by the industrial-scale killing of the First World War, and how people like China Mieville think that the eldritch gods of HP Lovecraft and other weird fiction writers in the 1920s were kind of necessary to scratch that collective itch of absolute horror on an industrial, civilizational scale that, for example, a weird little man sucking your blood was insufficient for.

And then I think about Nosferatu (1922), and how it's basically Dracula, except instead of just being a weird little guy who sucks your blood, Orlok brings the plague with him everywhere he goes. And then I think about how the 2024 version leans into this even harder and has thousands and thousands of rats on screen and the dead piling up in the streets and how that just kind of feels right these days.

[babeclownart]

Sometimes I like to imagine their dynamic like this just for funsies

[kikitata2]

i want to boop count orlok’s nose

[weirdlookindog]

Albin Grau (1884–1971) - Poster concept art for 'Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens'

[glindalphaba]

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) dir. Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau // Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) dir. Werner Herzog // Nosferatu (2024) dir. Robert Eggers

[swkywalker]

NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (1922) dir. F. W. Murnau NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (1979) dir. Werner Herzog NOSFERATU (2024) dir. Robert Eggers

[urgentkettle]

I think a fundamental difference between book Dracula and Nosferatu is how the protagonists work as a collective. In Dracula, they are the Scooby Gang (trusting, collaborative, polyamorous). In Nosferatu, they are the teens from an 80s slasher (suspicious, deceitful, jealous). The count can be defeated, but only the power of friendship can save Mina.

[caveisalie]

They look like a father and son

[buotella]

NOSFERATU (1922) dir. F. W. Murnau (x)

[classicfilmpunk]

NOSFERATU (1922) dir. F. W. Murnau

[dracula-is-homosexual]

I find it incredibly funny that Americans will stop at nothing to Americanize every IP and storyline they can come across. They stop at nothing to take a story line and make it digestible and self grandulating for an American as possible

Except for some fucking reason Dracula is the one exception to the rule because why do they never include the cowboy

[animusrox]

NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (1922) dir. F. W. Murnau NOSFERATU (2024) dir. Robert Eggers

[ezrazone]

those feratus

[wulfhalls]

Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) dir. F. W. Murnau // Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht dir. Werner Herzog (1979)

[weirdlookindog]

Dave McKean (b. 1963) - Nosferatu, 2010

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