1922: How Nosferatu laid the groundwork for gothic cinema.

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Nosferatu is maybe the most iconic horror film ever made. It's creepy imagery has cemented it in the public consciousness. In this film essay we will be looking at how the first vampire movie laid the groundwork for the Gothic cinema of Universal and Hammer.

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[sunnydayzie]

That film is still terrifying. Some freaking horrid scenes in there! cannot imagine seeing it in a darkened theater on a big screen! A great commentary!

[Decrepit_Productions]

A bit of trivia. While the survival and availability of silent era films is at best chancy, that Nosferatu exists today is even more miraculous than the norm. Due to legal action by Bram Stoker's widow or estate, all copies of the film were ordered destroyed. If memory serves, a few exported copes managed to escape destruction only because they too hard to track down. (Silent era films were relatively easy to distribute and show worldwide, as without voiced dialogue they needed only new title cards spliced in to be understood.)

[quickman]

We're now 100 years from this movie's release, and it's still freaking scary!

[nosferatu]

LOVE your videos. Man, how i am HOOKED on these IMMORTAL timeless horror classics. For years I have been obsessed with "Nosferatu", a true true Masterpiece. Just like "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", "Der Golem", "Phantom of the Opera" and so on. I just love watching these movies over and over (thank God for the amazing restoration work that has been done on these movie and the gorgeous "Eureka!" bluray releases). I can just ramble on for hours... OH- and don't you just LOVE the new 5.1 soundtrack score for "Nosferatu"? Delicious! Nothing beats those early German and Universal horror movies...

[tomchristie]

Great series. You sold me when you rightly pointed out that Nosferatu isn't particularly an expressionist film - this is probably actually the first analysis I've heard, professional critic or otherwise, that hasn't just lumped it in as one.

[Quicksilverfan]

Excellent film and analysis. My favourite Gothic horror probably would this, Nosferatu. And the other which I'm probably not sure if it is "Gothic", but The Phantom Carriage (Swedish horror silent).

[TheEightRain]

Just found you and now I am exited to watch more. Please keep making these!

[JimmyDThing]

Hey man, really love your series. Just a little bit of constructive criticism. I had a little bit of trouble keeping up with you on this one, maybe slow it down a little bit? Pauses between sentences etc. Your videos could be 10+ minutes long and I think your audience would stick with ya.

[Owen-otqi]

Holy shit this is the best quality I’ve seen of Nosferatu

[sundus]

How come vampires went from THIS to the *sparkly hot broody sexy* vampires?

[pixelchloe]

your chanel is helpful for film student like me. thank you!

[godzillamoraga]

I was lucky to see this with an organist performing a musical score for it.

[Editarian]

great video. what is the film used at 1:55?

[johnpehanich]

The number one movie that never fails to scare me

[sarmientoenricomiguelv.]

I love how the most iconic image in Nosferatu was referenced in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

It made wanna see the film Nosferatu itself.

[meepboie]

Who knows that one scene when he rides a boat to his house?

*insert pirates of Caribbean theme here*

[Bigbadwhitecracker]

It's such a creepy film almost 10 years later. I can't watch it anymore.

When you get to 1971, could you PLEASE include Billy Jack?

[lesgoe]

Excellent overview of this silent classic, but I don't think "W. D. Griffith" (2:40) was as slick a filmmaker as his cousin, W. D. Fortee.

[juanramirez-wkty]

Great video but I was a bit annoyed to see it repeat and perpetuate an often said misconception, Murnau did not transform the vampire count character from a "suave icon of sexuality into an animalistic beast", in fact it is the other way around. Count Orlock in Nosferatu is a lot closer to the original Count Dracula character in Stoker's book than the latter day "romantic" figures that pop culture has come to identify him with. Dracula in the book is consistently creepy and sinister and at no time does he take on any romantic qualities other than developing a malevolent spiritual hold over Mina as he attempts to "initiate" her into his vampire existence, hardly a "romance' by any stretch of the imagination.

[jasonhebedead]

I'd say my favourite gothic horror film would have to be Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963).