Nosferatu The Vampyre (Halloween Classic)

Werner Herzog (West Germany/ France 1979)

Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz Rated 12A Run time 119 mins

Join us this Halloween season as we enjoy a classic interpretation of the story of Dracula.
Herzog creates a magnificent looking remake of Murnau’s silent classic, with performances from Kinski and Adjani conveying the loneliness and despair of their characters. A powerful retelling delivering a suitable sense of doom and hopelessness without the gore and jump scares so often associated with films of the genre.

95% – Rotten Tomatoes

7.4 / 10 – IMDB

“Nosferatu the Vampyre is at once a tribute to Murnau’s original and the golden age of German filmmaking and a musing on the vampire myth and the gothic tradition. In its various divergences from its hallowed predecessor, it is also – perhaps inevitably, I’d say, given that this is a Herzog film – a wry, haunting meditation on the human condition. Death, as Dracula reminds us, is not the worst thing that can befall us.”

Past lives: Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre – BFI