Nosferatu, The Vampyr

(Anchor Bay)

Inspired by F.W. Murnau's 1922 Nosferatu, filmdom's first version of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Werner Herzog's imagery echoes Murnau's and at points expands on it. The acting is uneven: Bruno Ganz makes a vacant Jonathan Harker, but Klaus Kinski is fascinating as Dracula, and the scene in which Lucy (Isabelle Adjani, as eerily beautiful as ever) detains him in her bed until daylight is an unusual piece of erotica.