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Nosferatu Phantom Der
a.k.a. Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Nosferatu - fantome de la nuit, Nosferatu, The Vampire Director: Werner Herzog Cast: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Jacques Dufilho

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  • DVD Release Date: 07/09/2002
  • Original Release: 1979
  • Rating: Rated PG
  • Sales Rank: 15,209
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Widescreen presentation enhanced for 16x9 TVs; audio commentary with director Werner Herzog and Norman Hill; "The Making of Nosferatu"; theatrical trailers; talent bios; German Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track; English Dolby Digital Mono audio track.

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Side #1 --
1. Program Start/Main Titles [4:48]
2. Harker and Renfield [5:09]
3. "I Feel a Dark Force..." [3:19]
4. The Inn [2:44]
5. The Gypsies' Warning [4:58]
6. Journey to the Castle [5:20]
7. Count Dracula [5:00]
8. A Taste of Blood [3:44]
9. Alone [4:56]
10. "Lucy, My Love..." [4:58]
11. Phantom of the Night [3:53]
12. Escape [4:02]
13. The Black Coffins [2:40]
14. Dr. Van Helsing [3:06]
15. Voyage of Death [4:43]
16. Arrival [5:42]
17. A New Home [5:26]
18. Hunger [5:55]
19. Epiphany [1:58]
20. The Dead and the Dying [4:50]
21. Lair of the Vampyre [2:28]
22. Pestilence [5:13]
23. Sacrifice [5:11]
24. Dawn [2:13]
25. A Doctor's Duty [4:36]
Side #2 -- Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht
1. Program Start/Main Titles [4:33]
2. Harker and Renfield [5:05]
3. "I Feel a Dark Force..." [3:24]
4. The Inn [2:50]
5. The Gypsies' Warning [4:26]
6. Journey to the Castle [5:21]
7. Count Dracula [5:11]
8. A Taste of Blood [3:32]
9. Alone [4:56]
10. "Lucy, My Love..." [4:45]
11. Phantom of the Night [4:04]
12. Escape [4:08]
13. The Black Coffins [2:26]
14. Dr. Van Helsing [3:01]
15. Voyage of Death [4:43]
16. Arrival [5:34]
17. A New Home [5:23]
18. Hunger [6:00]
19. Epiphany [2:23]
20. The Dead and the Dying [4:58]
21. Lair of the Vampyre [2:38]
22. Pestilence [5:19]
23. Sacrifice [5:05]
24. Dawn [2:13]
25. A Doctor's Duty [4:39]

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German iconoclast Werner Herzog's 1979 Dracula film is indeed a remake of F. W. Murnau's silent classic, but it's also first and foremost a Herzog film: deliberate and stylistic in the extreme. Klaus Kinski stars as the bloodthirsty Count, who, upon purchasing a local home, sucks Jonathan Harker (Bruno Ganz) and his wife Lucy (Isabelle Adjani) into a world of darkness and immortality. As usual, Herzog's wildly imaginative and surreal imagery makes a lingering impression and remains distinct even as it quotes the Murnau classic. Despite the efforts of Herzog and cinematographer Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein, though, Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht is mainly carried by the inimitable Kinski. Previously and appropriately cast as the crazy Renfield in Jesús Franco's 1970 El Conde Drácula, Kinski was no stranger to the legend. His Dracula here is as menacing as he is sympathetic, appearing as a cross between Max Schreck and a sad, albino man-bat. The Count's tragic immortality and the turmoil he arouses afford Kinski license to chew the scenery in an uncharacteristically placid way. But while fans of the star's tortured melodramatics in Aguirre: The Wrath of God and Woyzeck may feel slightly disappointed, there is no shortage of the grueling, Herzog-Kinski intensity that ensures a uniquely challenging cinematic experience for all. Tony Nigro, Barnes & Noble

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One of the greatest Dracula parodies ever.by catu11us

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July 23, 2009: Werner Herzog is one of those self-proclaimed cinematic geniuses who writes, produces, directs, takes the tickets ... all that. Some years ago he undertook to remake the 1922 silent classic, "Nosferatu". The result is the 1979 flick, "Nosferatu the Vampyre". The last word isn't exactly a misspelling: they often spelled it that way in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Nowadays it's an affectation, and this little anachronism ought to give us a clue as to the film's (apparent) true intent. This isn't so much a remake as a parody ... it's not "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" (alas), but rather an almost-humorless Teutonic parody. Once you get past the deliberate dead-panning, it's hilarious.

Now, I have no proof of this, other than the evidence (which, of course, is evidence in court). One correspondent assures me that Werner Herzog hasn't got a "parody" bone in his body and that his comments on the DVD version of the film don't begin to speculate about the merest suspicion of a contemplation of the containing of even a hint of such a thing. Well, how do you make a good dead-pan parody if you then admit it?

But consider the evidence. Although this is a remake of the original Nosferatu, some things have been done to bring it closer to the traditional "Dracula" story -- primarily the introduction of Dr. Van Helsing. There's a big clue -- in this film Van Helsing absolutely doesn't believe in vampires until the very last few minutes. And then he takes it into his head to drive a stake into Dracula, who has already been killed by sunlight. The overkill is a nice parody touch.

The relationships between the basic characters has changed. Lucy is Mrs. Harker, and Harker works for Renfield. The last, although he apparently has never laid eyes on Dracula, is (also apparently) under his spell -- he giggles at lot for no good reason: a manic Dr. Hibbert. In fact, the only character in the film who believes (a) in vampires and (b) that Dracula is one is Lucy (who, in the original story, has no such opinions). Van Helsing is a local doctor who has decided that local victims of the vampire have died of plague. It's true that the ship that brought Dracula also brought a bunch of rats ... scads and slathers of white (!!) rats, or perhaps oversize lab mice. Whenever they appear, they are shown in exaggerated piles and clumps, like hundreds of malformed puppies.

Parody here is often in the little details. Dracula's chiming clock, with a prominent skull on top and a skeleton going in and out doors below, is a great bit of guignol, but wonderfully out of place otherwise. And of course the music. Most of it is by Popul Vuh (often oddly folksy but usually appropriately creepy), but some is by Wagner -- specifically a few moments from the prelude to Rheingold. It's music related to the Rhein and the creation of the world. The music appears in 2 scenes, for both of which it is wholly inappropriate due both to the general character of the music and to its meaning in the Wagnerian universe. The scenes are: Harker travelling through a mountain pass to Dracula's castle and Dracula moving his coffins off-ship to his new home. Such use of this music is -- as Hertzog would well know -- laughable.

There is also the question of black-suited, black-hatted morticians/pallbearers. There seems to be quite a population of these people in Wismar (a canal-laced ancient city in Mecklenburg,...

Hated it.by Anonymous

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July 12, 2004: The original is a pure classic, this sucked. Good directing but just doesnt live up to the original.


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