Dracula in turn inspired the film Nosferatu (1922), in which a vampire was first depicted as being vulnerable to sunlight.
Expressionist films such as Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari), Der Golem (1920), Nosferatu (1922), and Metropolis (1927) created a world of fantasy and horror peopled with menacing, shadowy figures.
In the 1920s such German films as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Nosferatu (the first filming of the Dracula story; 1922), and Waxworks (1924) were known throughout the world.
He also wrote two opera librettos, Nosferatu (1998) and Tony Caruso's Final Broadcast (2008).
Complete prints survive of Murnau's first major work, Nosferatu (1922), which is regarded by many as the most effective screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Nosferatu (1922) Horror really lends itself to the histrionics commonly associated with silent film, which is perhaps why this spine-chiller has become such a cult classic.
(Extra points for using David & Jad Fair's "Nosferatu," which is like "Monster Mash" if "Monster Mash" weren't the most annoying song ever).
Meanwhile, the films had begun appearing: notably, F. W. Murnau's silent "Nosferatu" (1922), which many critics still consider the greatest of Dracula movies, and then Tod Browning's "Dracula" (1931), the first vampire talkie, with Lugosi navigating among the spiderwebs and intoning the famous words "I do not drink... wine".
Visually, "Buffy" got more ambitious in later seasons, with gorgeous episodes like the largely wordless "Hush," directed by Whedon, which featured floating villains inspired by "Nosferatu," "Hellraiser," and Mr. Burns from "The Simpsons".
Malkovich, in particular, radiates a genuine aroma of fruitcake, grinning and frowning like a backwoods Nosferatu.
4 (call for showtimes): "Nosferatu the Vampyre" (1979, Werner Herzog; in German).
