I’m coming off a dizzyingly long Thanksgiving, and while I enjoyed quite a bit of unstructured time, I surprisingly did not have much time for writing. Posts from the past week indicate the amount of phoning in I’ve done lately, and this week’s Monday Morning Movie Review will likely be no different.
The idea for this review came from my good buddy photog over at Orion’s Cold Fire. On Halloween he wrote a large double review of the 1922 silent film Nosferatu and the Werner Herzog remake, Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979).
After reading his review, I found that Shudder had the Herzog remake—which photog correctly identifies as a tribute to the 1922 F. W. Murnau film—and watched it. I will say that photog’s review really does an excellent job of detailing the highlights, so I’d encourage you to read it. As he goes through much of the plot, I’ll leave that alone, and instead will give some of my thoughts on the film.
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