Werner Herzog: Nosferatu The Vampyre

Jonathan Harker (Bruno Ganz) leaves his young wife Lucy (Isabelle Adjani) at home in Wismar and travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula (Klaus Kinski), who is buying a house in Wismar opposite his own. After a terrifying ordeal in Dracula’s castle, Jonathan returns home a broken man, leaving Lucy to contend with their death-dealing new neighbour in the only way she can.

In many ways a remake of F. W. Murnau’s horror masterpiece, Herzog’s sinister, dreamlike Nosferatu The Vampyre nonetheless owes more to the tradition of German Romanticism than to Murnau’s Expressionism – balancing long, lush sequences in the Carpathian Mountains with darkly luminous, often terrifying, images of the indelible Count.