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8 unusual facts about Nosferatu


Bleed Well

However, the band did later release a new video for the song on YouTube, in a style different from the 30 second video clips featuring Nosferatu.

Clans and Bloodlines in Vampire: The Requiem

Nosferatu vampires are the repulsive, yet fascinating, alien monsters of legend (such as Count Orlok of their movie namesake).

Eric J. Schwartz

Among Schwartz's most well known works are his Nosferatu experimental chamber music score, commissioned by the Mallarme Chamber Players, composed for live performance alongside screenings of the film, written for an ensemble of flute, bassoon, keyboard, percussion, viola, and electronics, as well as his duo for saxophone and guitar, Thrash, which was written for Christopher Creviston and Oren Fader.

Helstar

In 1989 the band released Nosferatu, which many fans consider their greatest album.

It was based on the early Dracula film and contained spoken sound bites from the movie.

Top 10: The Forty-Niners

Heading outside after his awkward encounter, Steven follows a police wagon to Scowling Joe's, where the Cosa Nosferatu (vampire mafia) have murdered the barkeep and local prostitute.

Walls of Sand

The Sync had already presented several short films and two classic public domain silent features, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) and Nosferatu (1922), but no contemporary feature film had been made available for free real-time webcast viewing prior to Walls of Sand.

Walt Strony

Strony has studied with silent-film accompanists and has accompanied silent films for years, such as The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film) and Nosferatu at the Plaza Theatre (El Paso).


Albin Grau

Albin Grau was one of the main characters in the fictionalized movie account of the filming of Nosferatu, titled Shadow of the Vampire (2000), directed by American filmmaker E. Elias Merhige.

Belial

Popular culture contains many references to Belial; notably in the 1922 film, Nosferatu, Philip K. Dick's novel The Divine Invasion, Graham Masterton's novel Master of Lies, Aldous Huxley's novel Ape and Essence, contemporary horror The Exorcism of Emily Rose, and Dean Koontz's novel "Phantoms".

Bloodbound

Released on 16 December 2005 (in Japan; European release date 24 February 2006), Nosferatu features artwork by Mark Wilkinson (Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Marillion) and received an early rave review from the Swedish rock magazine Power Play.

Count Orlok

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.

Florence Balcombe

She was unaware of the existence of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's Nosferatu until she received an anonymous letter from Berlin.

Henning von Gierke

Von Gierke won Film Award in Gold for The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser during German Film Awards and Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement for Nosferatu, at the 29th Berlin International Film Festival.

Max Schreck

-- spelt without the "c" --> for the Tim Burton film Batman Returns and compared him to the character Max Schreck played in Nosferatu.

-- 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.

Tsintskaro

Although this song is unfamiliar to most Westerners, its haunting melody has been used by Western artists, who have incorporated the song into their works of art, such as the Kate Bush song "Hello Earth", and the Werner Herzog 1979 remake of Nosferatu.

Vampire in Venice

Vampire in Venice (Original title: Nosferatu a Venezia), also known as Nosferatu in Venice, is a 1988 Italian horror film directed by Augusto Caminito and starring Klaus Kinski, Christopher Plummer, Donald Pleasence and Barbara De Rossi.

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Samuel: A Camarilla Nosferatu (who is still quite a charismatic fellow), Christof's group encounter him in New York cornered by Sabbat Nosferatu.


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