Nosferatu









My vote for greatest horror film ever.  Filmed in 1922, during the Weimar meltdown, we almost lost the movie forever, due to the court ruling against the film company for copyright infringement.  All copies were destroyed until one turned up in the Ukraine after the war. 





Lubeck Salt Warehouse, the Salzspeicher.  Used for exterior shots of Count Orlock's new home.
When I first saw the film, I thought that these buildings were common in Germany at the time and that surely they disappeared during WWII.  Someday I will travel to Lubeck and have a bottle of wine there.





The rising from the coffin scene.  Goddamn but this is creepy!






This film invented the idea that vampires are killed by sunlight




One of the original posters.






The movie and folklore associate the plague with vampires.





Herr Knock.  The grotesque performance in film.  And just look at the letter from Count Orlock!





A film souvenir well worth having.





Uh, no thanks, I think I'll walk!






Max Shreck








Happy Halloween 2017!


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