A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.
"It is fear and fun. It is a scream of horror and a cry of delight. It is Nosferatu, the Vampyre."
Top Billed Cast
Isabelle Adjani
Lucy Harker
Bruno Ganz
Jonathan Harker
Klaus Kinski
Count Dracula
Roland Topor
Renfield
Walter Ladengast
Dr. Van Helsing
Dan van Husen
Warden
Jan Groth
Harbormaster
Carsten Bodinus
Schrader
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2024-04-29
"Harker" (Bruno Ganz) travels to remote Transylvania where he is to help "Count Dracula" (Klaus Kinski) buy a new home in his hometown of Wismar. Why? Well that's because he has fallen in love with a photograph of his beautiful wife "Lucy" (Isabelle Adjani) and has determined to make her his immortal bride. "Harker" had been warned by the locals of the dangers of visiting the "Count" but he pressed on regardless, so ought not to have been surprised when his host absconds from his castle on a schooner laden with coffins, soil and a deadly plague of rats so he can ensnare his innocent young wife...
B badelfVerified TMDB Critic
2025-12-27
The visuals in Werner Herzog's "Nosferatu the Vampyre" are luscious, hauntingly beautiful in ways that make you wonder: where did Herzog find these set pieces? The plague-ridden streets, the Gothic architecture, the rats flooding through medieval towns—it all feels discovered rather than constructed. This is Herzog's trademark style at its finest. You never feel like you're watching a movie. Instead, you're observing a documentary about a particular vampire, as though this is simply everyday experience captured on film.
Klaus Kinski's interpretation is 180 degrees from Bram Stoker's Dracu...
