The 2000 film Shadow of the Vampire presented a fictional account of the filming of Nosferatu in which Max Schreck (played by Willem Dafoe) is actually a vampire.
-- spelt without the "c" --> for the Tim Burton film Batman Returns and compared him to the character Max Schreck played in Nosferatu.
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-- Per Wikipedia:Trivia sections, only include items, in prose, with reliable third-party, non-wikipedia cites that source "the effect of the topic on popular culture." -->The person and performance of Max Schreck in Nosferatu has been fictionalized by actor Willem Dafoe in E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire.
The name of the ensemble is a combination of the founders surnames (SCHutteRhoef; ECK) and a reference to the actor Max Schreck.
Max Roach | Max Martin | Mad Max | Max Ernst | Max Bygraves | Max Weber | Max Bruch | Max McLean | Max | Max Factor | Max Beckmann | Max Baucus | Max von Sydow | Max Reger | Max Beerbohm | Max Ophüls | Max Müller | Max Headroom | Max Bill | Peter Max | Max Reinhardt | Max Planck Society | Max Azria | Max Payne | Max Mosley | Max Mirnyi | Max Mallowan | Max Liebermann | Max Eastman | Max Born |