NOSFERATU

Director F. W. Murnau / 1922 / Germany

One of the most powerful films made in the opening decades of cinema, master filmmaker Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's 1922 silent Nosferatu (deliciously subtitled A Symphony of Horror) introduced the world to its initial terrifying image of a movie vampire. Distorted, elongated ears and fingers, a wizened, skeletal face and rat-like fangs made Max Schreck's creature of the night the model for all to come. Faithful to Bram Stoker's chilling 19th century novel with all its insinuation that the vampire is a threat not only to his immediate victims but the very fabric of society itself.

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