Nosferatu [blu-ray]

The quintessential silent vampire film, crafted by legendary German director F. W. Murnau. Rather than depicting Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok is a nightmarish, spidery creature of bulbous head and taloned claws, perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism yet envisioned. Features two versions of the film, the original German intertitles (with optional English subtitles) or English intertitles.

General Note:

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1922.

Special features: Hans Erdmann's original 1922 score, in 5.1 Surround or 2.0 Stereo; The language of shadows (2007), a 52-minute documentary on F.W. Murnau's early career and the making of Nosferatu ; Lengthy excerpts from other films by F.W. Murnau: Journey into the night (1920), The Haunted castle (1921), Phantom (1922), The finances of the Grand Duke (1924), The last laugh (1924), Tartuffe (1925), Faust (1926), and Tabu (1931) ; image gallery.

Based on the novel, Dracula, by Bram Stoker.

Performers:

Max Schreck, Greta Schroder, Ruth Landshoff, Gustav Von Wangenheim, Alexander Granach, George H. Schnell.

Contents:

Disc 1. Nosferatu with English intertitles ; The language of shadows ; Special feature -- Disc 2. Nosferatu with original German intertitles.

Technical Details:

Blu-ray; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; requires Blu-ray player.

Newly mastered in HD from the archival 35mm restoration by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.

Personal Subject:

Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)-Drama.

Subject Term:

Vampires -- Romania -- Transylvania -- Drama.