Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

Cast

Werner Herzog
as Hand and Feet in Box with Rats
Isabelle Adjani
as Lucy Harker
Klaus Kinski
as Count Dracula
Bruno Ganz
as Jonathan Harker

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Genres & Description

Action Comedy Drama Fantasy Horror

7.6 / 10

Jonathan Harker is sent away to Count Dracula's castle to sell him a house in Wismar where Jonathan lives. But Count Dracula is a vampire, an undead ghoul living off of men's blood. Inspired by a photograph of Lucy Harker, Jonathan's wife, Dracula moves to Wismar, bringing with him death and plague... An unusually contemplative version of Dracula, in which the vampire bears the curse of not being able to get old and die.

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Comments on this trailer
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Eddie Le Persown

Isn’t the same guy - @Saturday, October 20, 2018 6:15 AM

HeathenMetalhead221

Don't claim you're goth if you haven't seen this movie - @Wednesday, August 8, 2018 9:18 PM

Mike Brown

ONE of the best Horror classic vampire movie - @Friday, July 20, 2018 10:38 PM

Caesar

0:52 can someone give me the german subtitles please? - @Tuesday, May 29, 2018 7:53 PM

Milli İstihbarat Teşkilat

Bizdede dabbe var ;) - @Thursday, May 3, 2018 9:07 AM

쭈아

Too scary and creepy😭😣 - @Tuesday, January 16, 2018 12:31 PM

Alex Davies

A very good film in itself and with a more restrained performance from Klaus Kinski. The film is highly imaginative and benefits from Werner Herzog's direction. - @Wednesday, November 1, 2017 7:31 PM

samsquanch1996

Is this a fan-made trailer? It's really well done. - @Wednesday, October 25, 2017 3:15 AM

Woodland Goblin

Why is he grabbing her tits in this scene??? - @Saturday, October 7, 2017 9:52 PM

SURA DOĞAN

oha öldüm - @Sunday, September 10, 2017 3:02 PM

Satyros Phil Brucato

Slow, but creepy as fuck. - @Tuesday, September 5, 2017 12:56 AM

Patrick McHale

I saw this movie. It was good. More suspense & romance. Close to first film. - @Monday, August 21, 2017 8:01 PM

KingKaitain

There should be a scene in which Jonathan Harker takes off his glasses and rages at the incompetence of the vampire hunters around him. - @Tuesday, August 15, 2017 6:31 PM

Strava 89

I love it. - @Saturday, July 1, 2017 3:50 AM

Shiro 88

1:05 ¡¡¡¡HEEEEEEE ESAS MANOS NOSFERATU :vv (o como se escriba :v)!!!! - @Wednesday, May 24, 2017 5:49 PM

truthfilter

will there be an english dubbed version with this steelbook ? - @Tuesday, May 2, 2017 6:11 PM

NOWTHATSBS

Nosferatu reminds me of lord voldamort - @Friday, March 31, 2017 8:37 PM

wishcraft4u2

The late night dinner scene in this Dracula adaptation is off the charts. Perfect synergy between Kinski's acting and Herzog's direction. In other scenes, it takes its time. But that's the kinda movie it is, quiet, slow, mesmerizing. - @Saturday, March 11, 2017 11:39 PM

AdventurerTime

I saw it on spongebob so they going die by than - @Friday, March 10, 2017 5:58 AM

MK1MonsterOck1989

if That Was You on The Phone And You on The Bus Then Who Was Flickering The Lights? NOSFERATU! ;) - @Wednesday, January 18, 2017 6:00 AM

Andrew Malachinski

wtf is wrong with that woman's neck? is she a giraffe? - @Monday, December 19, 2016 11:58 PM

spineshivers

Nosferatu is gibberish. I'm Romanian and that doesn't mean anything in my language (where the word allegedly came from). The traditional Romanian word for vampire is strigoi, although most people say vampir cause of the Western influence on the language. I have a theory though. The name Nosferatu was first used in the late 1800s when some French guy came to Transylvania and wrote an article. But not understanding Romanian he wrote down some gibberish he thought he heard. I think it's actually Necuratul, which means "the unclean one" when said literally or "the unholy" one. It's usually an euphemism for the Devil itself, not just a vampire. What really bugged me about this film was the goof when the sailor said something like "it was hard sailing through the Caspian sea". Wtf? The Caspian sea is nowhere near Romania. Romania has an exist to the BLACK sea. And even so I find this sea travelling kind of ridiculous. The now Romanian region of Transylvania(wasn't part of Romania back then) is still way far off from the Black Sea. I don't get the sea part. Did they just navigate through some river (it shows peasants on a river before with the coffins), then the Danube and then into the sea? That's just going east instead of west. Or from the Black Sea to the Marmara one, Mediterranean, Atlantic through Gibraltar, and going north around the Iberian peninsula? That's going round half the continent navigating through two rivers, two big seas, a small one and the ocean. From Transylvania it would have been much shorter and easier to go on land and then just cross the English channel. As a geography buff I could never understand the sea part in all this narrative. - @Wednesday, December 14, 2016 11:38 PM

Max

wieso sind alle Kommentare englisch - @Saturday, September 17, 2016 9:36 AM

mrsalento78

A real vampire movie. - @Saturday, September 17, 2016 9:07 AM

Rip Reed

Incredible. I need to see it again. - @Friday, September 2, 2016 9:40 PM

David Niven

Nosfertu means vampire though. the vampire that he was based on is called orlok - @Saturday, August 27, 2016 7:32 PM

Sitizen Kane

My parents bought the VHS from best buy when I was 10 years old. I love this movie. So beautiful and well made. - @Saturday, June 25, 2016 9:50 PM

Sagar Saxena

Herzog was pretty much a master at capturing beautiful images.Enigma of Kaspar Hauser,Aguirre and all his other works contain some amazing imagery. - @Sunday, February 28, 2016 6:13 PM

petulant

This looks fucking amazing, why have i not watched this! - @Sunday, October 25, 2015 2:13 AM

Chrypto

The vampire in the original is scarier tho - @Wednesday, September 16, 2015 8:20 PM

classicfilm

A stunning film that contains some of the greatest acting from Klaus Kinski and some inspired direction from Werner Herzog. They complimented each other so well, their 5 collaborations represent some of the best film work from Germany and indeed, from Europe in general. Kinski's performance is rather more melancholic as the Dracula type character, he expresses sadness at his ever-lasting plight, that of being an un-natural creature of the night and who must satisfy his cravings. The photography is quite breath-taking and also imaginative and thought-provoking. A masterpiece. - @Sunday, August 16, 2015 2:14 PM

Neville Bardoli

"Awesome Production is Nosferatu The Vampyre (1979), a must see Movies." ~ C/O Neville Bardoli - @Saturday, July 4, 2015 9:24 AM

Wanda Soares

foi um dos piores filmes que asisti na minha vida.que filme ruim. - @Thursday, June 4, 2015 6:19 PM

Nosferatu_Vampire

a classic! - @Thursday, May 7, 2015 4:09 PM

Herrosivich

Hitler meets Dracula... Great music in this Weirdo German masterpiece. .. - @Friday, March 27, 2015 3:06 PM

Jelle Waar

Nosferatu is kankerslim - @Monday, March 16, 2015 3:00 PM

vvvv

A masterpiece IMO,but the soundtrack is terrible.Wher the hell was Ennio M.? - @Friday, January 30, 2015 5:01 PM

Hard Boiled Entertainment

I liked this movie...until the end. Herzog did a great job of build-up of tension and atmosphere...and then gives us no payoff. Dracula's henchman presumably leaves with the plague-infested dirt (the movie seemingly forgets about him after Dracula gives his instructions, and we have no clue what happens to him), Lucy's plan seems all thought out, and then doesn't seem to work (Jonathan's still a vampire--was Lucy trying to save him or not?) and Van Helsing... Perhaps Herzog meant to leave room for a sequel...but the sequel that WAS made (and not by him) has Kinski's Dracula come back, which makes Lucy's actions meaningless. And of course, Van Helsing as a doddering old fool who's a skeptic of vampires? Was there a reason for Herzog to miss the point of his character entirely? Just to make Lucy look better (even though the ending makes her look dumb, too...because Jonathan's STILL A VAMPIRE and free to rampage)? Great movie with a bad ending. - @Saturday, January 17, 2015 7:25 AM

fruityful day

Sehr schöner Trailer! - @Wednesday, September 10, 2014 5:23 PM

Rachael Jones

1922 sorry - @Friday, July 18, 2014 6:47 PM

Rachael Jones

the original is way better the 1929 verson x - @Friday, July 18, 2014 6:47 PM

sergio NB

i liked this movie, but prefer the 20,s one - @Friday, June 27, 2014 7:58 AM

fleetlordavtar

Don't bother people, this movie is long in the tooth & the story doesn't hold to up our current level / experienced of movie audience. the positive reviews, especially those of the cinematic style / presentation mean nothing if it's not an enjoyable experience. - @Thursday, June 26, 2014 11:20 PM

nosferatu.kh

I truly love this film, along with with original one which was always my number 1. I can't wait for this blu ray release, i always enjoy when Jonathan leaves the guesthouse for castle Dracula, i love those beautiful landscapes and waiting, because you know you'll creaking door opening and question "Graf Dracula?". The scene when Kinski walks down the dark corridor and then comes to Harker's chamber still truly terrifies me. - @Wednesday, May 14, 2014 6:42 AM

mrsirben Will

great film but it still cant beat the original - @Tuesday, February 25, 2014 3:53 AM

chikitabowow

This is how Vampires are supposed to be; horrible. Not sparkling. - @Monday, January 20, 2014 5:41 PM

velocirapta

It's November 1st... ;) - @Friday, November 1, 2013 11:53 AM

BFITrailers

Apologies for the delay in replying. There's still no confirmed date - please keep an eye on our website for our forthcoming DVD/Blu-ray announcements (we'll be announcing Jan-March 2014 at the end of October). - @Wednesday, October 9, 2013 12:35 PM

velocirapta

HI BFI - if you read these comments, could you tell us when Aguirre or Kaspar Hauser are to be release on Blu-Ray (Dual Format I presume)? You announced Aguirre back in April, but not a release date... - @Thursday, September 26, 2013 4:57 PM