NOSFERATU (1922) MOVIE REACTION AND REVIEW! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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NOSFERATU (1922) MOVIE REACTION AND REVIEW! FIRST TIME WATCHING! Polls, early access and full reactions on Patreon / reelreviewswithjen Watch me watch this 1922 horror movie, Nosferatu, in this first time watching reaction video! Nosferatu tells the story of Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
The film was directed by F.W. Murnau and based on a book by Bram Stoker. Nosferatu stars Max Schreck as Graf Orlok, Alexander Granach as Knock - ein Häusermakler, Greta Schröder as Ellen - seine Frau, Gustav von Wangenheim as Hutter, Ruth Landshoff as Ruth - seine Schwester, Georg H. Schnell as Harding - ein Reeder, John Gottowt as Professor Bulwer and Gustav Botz as Professor Sievers.
Check out this first time watching horror reaction video for Nosferatu, and see if I can make it as a horror movie rookie. Horror is a genre I've barely explored, mostly because I'm a huge wuss. Typically my Halloween movie viewings consist of Hocus Pocus and Halloweentown. This year I decided to expand my horror movie knowledge and try and watch these horror movie fan favourites.
Check out my first time watching this 1922 horror movie, Nosferatu, and enjoy my reaction video! Don't forget to like and subscribe for more videos! If you have suggestions for other horror movies I should watch, comment below!
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@ReelReviewsWithJen 2 жыл бұрын

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@krbkrbkrbkrbkrb 2 жыл бұрын

Dialogue: An advantage of not hearing the actors is that it doesn't matter what language they are speaking. "translating" the movie from German to English to Russian to French only meant changing the cards. Music: Remember that In the early days the film had no audio track. Period. The theater might have a phonograph that they could play along with the movie or in more upscale venues the music might be performed live. Sometimes there might only have been an organ or a piano playing the music. In any case, the music played ay any particular showing may or may not have matched the movie being shown. With this movie in particular, it was intended to have an orchestra playing the music. The original score was mostly lost (see prints and remastering) so this score is sort of a best guess. Color tint: All of the filming was in daylight to have enough light for filming with early film and lenses. Using different color tints was commonly used to indicate times of day or sometimes weather. Special Effects: Movies and camera effects like stop-motion were still new but stage plays and magic shows with wires, trap doors, etc. had been around for a long time. Consider that when this was filmed Harry Houdini was at the peak of is career doing illusions on stage. Prints and remastering: Bram Stoker's heirs won a lawsuit for copyright infringement and the court ordered all copies of the movie destroyed. There were some copies that had been sent out of Germany and those are the source of what we can watch today.

@mikesilva3868 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed 🙃

@vincentlyon7448 2 жыл бұрын

I once went to a showing of the original phantom of the opera movie with no audio track, but a Hammond organ player in the theater. It completely changed to the movie.

@TTM9691 2 жыл бұрын

Once sound came in, everybody's audience shrank. Before then, you could have a hit just by swapping out the title cards, just as you said. The silent era was when people were most movie crazy and attendance was at it's height. Now it's just a lost city buried underneath an ancient one.

@cheloniadaycare8872 Ай бұрын

@krbkrbkrbkrbkrb Nosferatu (2024).

@cheloniadaycare8872 Ай бұрын

@@mikesilva3868Nosferatu (2024).

@44excalibur 2 жыл бұрын

Jen, you should totally check out the 2000 horror drama, Shadow of the Vampire, with Willem Dafoe and John Malkovich, which is a fictionalized account of the filming of Nosferatu. Malkovich plays director F.W. Murnau and Dafoe plays Max Schreck, the actor who plays Count Orlock. The film has a fascinating concept, which is the idea that Max Schreck might have actually been a real vampire pretending to be a human actor pretending to be a screen vampire. Willem Dafoe earned an Oscar nomination for his performance.

@roddmatsui3554 2 жыл бұрын

It’s very funny. :)

@matthewdunham1689 2 жыл бұрын

Good movie 😀

@JulioLeonFandinho 2 жыл бұрын

that's a good movie, but you spoiled it 😅

@chimpinaneckbrace 2 жыл бұрын

Plus Eddie Izzard

@44excalibur 2 жыл бұрын

@@JulioLeonFandinho How did I spoil it? I didn't mention anything that isn't in every review of the movie. Heck, everyone who went to see the movie already knew what Dafoe's character was because it was in the trailers.

@BrianSettles88 2 жыл бұрын

Another really fun horror movie from the silent era is The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. That one came out in 1920.

@TTM9691 2 жыл бұрын

Even better is "The Golem" which came out soon after. Love that movie. "Haxan" is totally creepy!

@BrianSettles88 2 жыл бұрын

@@TTM9691 Love Haxan! It isn’t just creepy, it’s also a hilarious commentary on the ways people viewed the occult and anything “evil.”

@TTM9691 2 жыл бұрын

@@BrianSettles88 Absolutely! A great - and totally one-of-a-kind - movie. It's like....half-documentary! Really good. Also, I was saying in my other comment: "Faust", another fantastic Murnau. Always great connecting with another silent buff!

@BrianSettles88 2 жыл бұрын

@@TTM9691 I’ll make sure to check that out. I think my favorite might be The Phantom Carriage. Big Dickens vibes in that one and I love the use of color tinting.

@TTM9691 2 жыл бұрын

@@BrianSettles88 "Phantom Carriage" is another great one! (you're pulling out all the good ones today, Brian! Ha!) Yeah, definitely check out "Faust". "The Man Who Laughs" is another really good one, would probably please David Lynch! :P Good rapping with you, Mr. Settles!

@flibber123 2 жыл бұрын

The Night of the Hunter (1955) is a black and white American movie that shows some influences from German Expressionism in its visuals. It's a pretty good thriller, not horror exactly, and I highly recommend it. Nosferatu is pretty amazing all things considered. The novel came out in 1897, this movie 25 years later. Even though the movie industry was still in its infancy they decided to make a Dracula movie, that's impressively ambitious.

@TTM9691 2 жыл бұрын

Great, great movie, and ironically co-stars Lillian Gish.....one of the earliest movie stars. (That role originally was offered to Mary Pickford, and if you think about it, that part is more like a Mary Pickford part, rather than a Lillian Gish part, at least according to what their screen "personas" were like in the teens and the 20s. (Gish is fantastic in that movie, though, no disrespect at all to her!). There are lots and lots of movies with German Expressionistic influence, starting in the silent era itself, and going to the present day with stuff like Tim Burton.

@dolphinsrr Жыл бұрын

@@TTM9691 it was a German film. No American actors in this film

@dolphinsrr Жыл бұрын

@@TTM9691 unless you meant night of the hunter

@TTM9691 Жыл бұрын

@@dolphinsrr We're talking about "Night Of The Hunter" (1955). Are you following this thread?

@ericjanssen394 2 жыл бұрын

“Does this mean much of the original film was lost?” Very probably: Studios didn’t store their early films seriously back then, and before the 40’s, film was on nitrate stock that could literally combust into fire or melt into dust if improperly stored. We can only see a third of all silent films ever made, and those on video have gotten extensive restoration from private collectors or newly unearthed prints.

@KC1976fromDetroit 2 жыл бұрын

The Stoker family never gave Murnau permission to adapt the novel Dracula into a film, and they sued him. They won the suit, and the court ordered all copies of the film destroyed. Only a few copies survived.

@vincentlyon7448 2 жыл бұрын

Early American copyright law required a paper copy of any work of art submitted for copyright protection. Some of the earliest American movies only exist in a paper print at the copyright office, because the original film decayed.

@Anthony-qr9qc 2 жыл бұрын

Werner Herzog directed a remake in 1979. It would be interesting to see you react and compare the two. I think it just as good or maybe better and it has a fantastic soundtrack from the band Popol Vuh.

@majimasmajimemes1156 2 жыл бұрын

Werner Herzogs version is so good.

@adamstewart9383 2 жыл бұрын

I was just about to put that in the comments

@michaelvalenzuela2528 2 жыл бұрын

Herzog had a thing for Popol Vuh, they also did the soundtrack for "Aguirre, the Wrath of God"

@glenmcculla6843 2 жыл бұрын

The '79 version is one of my favourite movies of all time.

@olavhumbek7427 2 жыл бұрын

Here is a trailer: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oN2Vf6eIrNq2iKc.html . And this wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_the_Vampyre

@porflepopnecker4376 2 жыл бұрын

This movie was never in color so it would not be possible to "restore" it in color. Besides, black and white is beautiful, moody and atmospheric, and not inferior to color. It is its own genuine medium for cinematic expression. As for colorization, it does anything but restore a black and white movie. It ruins its artistry, its unique visual design. Black and white movies are not coloring books.

@nostromo777 2 жыл бұрын

many "black and white" movies were actually shown in monochromatic color: scenes tinted in one color.... blue for night, yellow for day, etc. The orginal negative is black and white, but even the earliest theatrical showings had tint added to the print to add to the drama.

@peytone5387 2 жыл бұрын

Well-said

@cheloniadaycare8872 Ай бұрын

@porflepopnecker4376 Nosferatu (2024).

@cheloniadaycare8872 Ай бұрын

@@nostromo777Nosferatu (2024).

@cheloniadaycare8872 Ай бұрын

@@peytone5387Nosferatu (2024).

@danielallen3454 2 жыл бұрын

Bram Stoker's hers sued over this film, claiming copywright infringement. They won, and the court ordered all copies of this film to be destroyed. Luckily, a few survived.

@tacobellalugosi2527 2 жыл бұрын

I never understood why the family did that. I mean they were just paying tribute to his novel. Making it into a film .

@trentbresler3179 2 жыл бұрын

The wife sued not not Bram. What happened is by the time the case was over people shipped a few copies here to America where the copyright laws on the book had slipped by the family so there was nothing they could do. Thank god, I personally love the play on shadows and lighting in this Movie.

@trentbresler3179 2 жыл бұрын

@@tacobellalugosi2527 They sued because Bram stoker had very little money when he died so the way his wife survived was by leasing and selling the rights to different people and companies.

@cesararanda4213 2 жыл бұрын

@@tacobellalugosi2527 maybe a better way to pay tribute is ask for permission / pay royalties, instead of changing character names to circumvent that

@nicholasbielik7156 2 жыл бұрын

Oddly, this unauthorized version of Stoker’s novel is, perhaps, one of the most faithful adaptations of Dracula ever done.

@shainewhite2781 2 жыл бұрын

There's a movie very similar to this called Shadow Of The Vampire, taking place in an alternate 1922, showing us what would happen if FW Murnau hired a real vampire rather than an actor to star in his movie. John Malkovich plays Murnau while Willem Dafoe playa the vampire.

@krbkrbkrbkrbkrb 2 жыл бұрын

I was going to suggest it as well. Pairing the two movies makes for a great experience.

@TheKirkosable 2 жыл бұрын

Great fictional retelling of the making of Nosferatu

@oaf-77 2 жыл бұрын

Shadow of the vampire is a great movie with a fantastic cast.

@jean-paulaudette9246 2 жыл бұрын

Ah, thank you! I was trying to remember that one's name!

@clarencewalker3925 2 жыл бұрын

I agree. And why hasn't Willem Dafoe won an Oscar?

@bobmessier5215 2 жыл бұрын

As a movie buff, I'm excited to watch old films with you, Jen. The key to watching and enjoying old movies is to watch them NOT with modern 21st century eyes, but with the imagination and awe of audiences new to motion pictures. Two other early vampire films to watch are "Vampyr" from 1932 and of course, the original "Dracula" with Bela Lugosi in 1931.

@clarencewalker3925 2 жыл бұрын

Two fine films. There is also a 1931 Spanish language version of "Dracula" using the same sets as the Lugosi film.

@michaelbuhl4250 2 жыл бұрын

WOW!!! I'm so excited that you watched this! Is *The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari* next???

@ReelReviewsWithJen 2 жыл бұрын

I’ll add it to the watchlist! I want to see more of the older classic films!

@jamesharper3933 2 жыл бұрын

To appreciate the films we love today, we must go back to and appreciate it's origins.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 2 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy seeing how far filmmaking has come and the progress we’ve made! So cool.

@BrianSettles88 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve always been fascinated not only by the more physical performances but the make up that draws attention to certain features. It would be nice if the studios put out a silent film here and there these days.

@bobmessier5215 2 жыл бұрын

Try "The Call of Cthulhu" from 2005, if you want to see a modern silent film. It's an homage to Lovecraft.

@1nelsondj 2 жыл бұрын

Mel Brooks made one called "Silent Movie". The only person who spoke was the famous mime Marcel Marceau.

@BrianSettles88 2 жыл бұрын

@@bobmessier5215 yeah I saw that one. I watched back when I was still getting the dvds from Netflix. Still need to watch silent movie though, love Mel Brooks.

@zvimur 2 жыл бұрын

For a whole new spin on this film watch: Shadow of the Vampire(2000). Spoiler: What if Nosferatu starred a real vampire???

@rudolphbehrmann2719 2 жыл бұрын

Please watch Shadow of the Vampire; Nosferatu was the first time that sunlight was considered fatal to vampires.

@LordHades800BC 2 жыл бұрын

The colors during different scenes were the result of the film being dyed after development. This was done with silent films to approximate lighting in a given scene. Blue was used for night, Yellow for candle-light etc. As far as music, the theater showing the film was responsible for providing their own musical accompaniment.

@cheloniadaycare8872 Ай бұрын

@LordHades800BC Nosferatu (2024).

@Rebel9668 2 жыл бұрын

"Why is the bed so high off the ground"? I have an antique bed myself from 1888 and it sits high as well. Back then in cold weather they would take a pan of hot embers from the fireplace and put them under the bed and the bed would have to be high enough not to catch fire itself. It wasn't a very efficient way of warming the bed and later would be discarded in favor of rubber hot water bottles and then eventually by electric blankets. And yes, the restored version added the color tints BACK in. The original prints of the films distributed would have had color tints in them. This film was a contraband copy originally with no tint as Murnau had made this movie without obtaining permission from the late Bram Stoker's wife. She sued citing copywrite infringement and the courts agreed and demanded all copies of the film be destroyed. This contraband copy escaped that order fortunately for us and so we can watch the movie today.

@JulioLeonFandinho 2 жыл бұрын

I think this is probably the reaction to the oldest movie in youtube, and makes this channel one of the most interesting... very well done 👍

@ReelReviewsWithJen 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed the video! Yeah I need to watch more classic older films like this

@44excalibur 2 жыл бұрын

Jen, you've probably noticed that the look of Kurt Barlow from the Salem's Lot miniseries was inspired by Count Orlock from Nosferatu.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I definitely saw the connection now that I’ve watched both films. So cool!

@AspieMediaBobby 2 жыл бұрын

@@ReelReviewsWithJen As was The Master from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and Eli Damaskinos as well as his son Jared Nomak and his Reaper minions from "Blade II".And the Strigoi from "The Strain"(Ironic as the original Strigoi of Romanian Mythology influenced Orlok`s look).

@maxmarkus6202 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for reacting to this magnificent film. Despite its age, it's still a masterly made film. The entrance of the Count in that archway is still one of the greatest villain introductions in film ever.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 2 жыл бұрын

It’s so creepy and so subtle I really enjoyed it. Thank you for watching! And I agree, 100 years later and he’s still such a creepy villain!

@sca88 2 жыл бұрын

The late 70's Nosferatu with the creepy Klaus Kinski and beautiful Isabelle Adjani is pretty good.

@StCerberusEngel 2 жыл бұрын

If you needed someone to be creepy, Klaus was your man. lol

@44excalibur 2 жыл бұрын

The original prints were restored, Jen, but some of the inserts were lost and had to be replicated. The music was redone as well. A lot of the old films from the 1920s and earlier were lost forever, sadly.

@darthken815 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, same thing happened to one of the first two films about the Titanic. Whoosh! Gone eor good.

@darthken815 2 жыл бұрын

Talk about dusting off a classic. Good choice, Jen.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yeah I'm so glad I finally watched this!

@mvjonsson 2 жыл бұрын

Jen, you should see Friedrich Murnau's film "Faust" starring Emil Jannings and Gösta Ekman. Absolute Masterpiece with amazing special effects for the silent movie period.

@peterampee-kleisius 2 жыл бұрын

Saw this in the theatre with live music. It was the first time on the big screen after they restored some of the former missing scenes. The whole audience was in devout silence to witness such a great lost piece of art for the first time until the scene came up with Orlock carrying his coffins through the streets. In that moment everyone laughed. Otherwise great movie! There is a Werner Herzog remake from 1979 which follows the script of this one with all the names changed from the Bram Soker version. Other noteworthy adaptations of the book are Tod Brownings Dracula from 1931 with iconic Bela Lugosi in the title role and 1992s "Bram Stokers Dracula" by Francis Ford Coppola with Gary Oldman in the title role. All of them very watchable with "Bram Stokers Dracula" being the most extensive and most true to the book an adaptation.

@SubZeroCommander 2 жыл бұрын

Bold move on that one, Jen, I like it! Ofc the tinting happened later and the original B&W movies had a piano player in the showing room, at least that's what I remember being told to me. I saw some of the old ways in the 70s & 80s with curtains opening up & intermissions inbetween ads/trailers or movies. Some yrs later I was very happy with my local small program cinema always providing the proper backdrop to what they were showing; that's the best experience!

@ericjanssen394 2 жыл бұрын

Silent films were “mood-tinted”, not only to make B&W easier on the eyes, but also conjure up mood: Blue was night, red was battle, gold was flashback, and green was weird horror. Audiences used to color don’t notice it, but it works.

@SubZeroCommander 2 жыл бұрын

@@Dularr It just wasnt available for every single cinema viewing :) ; radio was discovered a couple of yrs earlier, grammophones a decade or two earlier. What Jen was viewing is a later version. I personally have never seen a tinted version of the movie; I think the american market might have made that of their own, music score no clue.

@mustang6172 2 жыл бұрын

This film was an unauthorized adaptation of Dracula, which was still under copyright. Character names and locations were changed to avoid copyright infringement, but the basic plot points weren't altered. Bram Stoker's family sued and won. References to vampires as a disease was an allusion to the Spanish flu pandemic. Changes in color tone are not part of a restoration but original.

@witchland Жыл бұрын

Orlok's castle was filmed at Orava Castle in Slovakia, which can still be visited today. The scenes in the city of Wisborg were filmed in Wismar and Lübeck in Germany. The abandoned house that Orlok bought is one of the "Salzspeicher" (salt warehouses) in Lübeck that have since been restored.

@linknlog 2 жыл бұрын

I love that you watched this classic. As others have probably pointed out, this was an unofficial adaptation of Dracula. Since they never got (or asked for) approval from the Stoker estate they just changed the names of the characters.

@bobmessier5215 2 жыл бұрын

I think you are the first to react to a silent movie, Jen. I've always thought that if a person is going to watch 1922's "Nosferatu" then they must follow this up with the remake called "Shadow of the Vampire" starring Willem Dafoe from 2000 or even the sound version of "Nosferatu the Vampyre" from 1979. Watching a silent era film is like experiencing time travel.

@HuntingViolets Жыл бұрын

DawnMarie even has a silent reaction to a silent movie. You should check it out. MoviesWithMia has done _Nosferatu_ also.

@SRG1966 2 жыл бұрын

This is a German film. Murnau didn't have permission from Bram Stoker's estate to make a film of Dracula, so Stoker's widow sued him. She won the case and the court ordered that all copies of Nosferatu be destroyed. Luckily for us, a few copies were hidden away, which is the only reason we can still see this film today. This was nine years before Universal's Dracula with Bela Lugosi. This film was remade in 1980 by Werner Herzog and it is every bit as good as this. BTW, this film is where the whole idea of vampires being destroyed by sunlight comes from. That was never a part of vampire lore, and in the novel Dracula walks around in daylight without any problem. Murnau needed an ending for the film and they came up with this idea, achieved with what was then a clever special effect.

@AspieMediaBobby 2 жыл бұрын

The symbols in the beginning are alchemical formulas.Notice how the credits mention Bulwer, the Van Helsing character, being a Paracelsian?Paracelsus was an Austrian-born Swiss alchemist,astrologer and arguably the true father of medicine before Hippocrates took the credit.(He was also known by his real name Phillippus Theophrastes von Hohenheim after whom Van Hohenheim, the father of the protagonists of the Manga/Anime "Fullmetal Alchemist" was named).Interestingly, Johann Conrad Dippel, the historical inspiration for Victor Frankenstein, was a student of Paracelsus and one of his castles was actually shared with John Hunyadi who was one of the benefactors of Vlad III Tepes,Vlad the Impaler, the historical Dracula, so the two great Gothic horror novels of the 19th Century have a connection albeit a loose one historically.

@Greenwood4727 2 жыл бұрын

a lot of movies forget music plays a big role in films, and this being nearly 100 years old,

@ReelReviewsWithJen 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah music is such an under appreciated part of filmmaking. It can have such an impact on a film, especially in horror.

@Greenwood4727 2 жыл бұрын

@@ReelReviewsWithJen I do have a soft spot for George GrovesA little known sound man , s a film sound pioneer who played a significant role in developing the technology that brought sound to the silent screen. He is also credited as being Hollywood's first ‘sound man’; he was the recording engineer on the seminal Al Jolson picture, The Jazz Singer (1927), as well as many other early talkies

@jimhuffman9434 Жыл бұрын

This film almost never made it to theatres. When Bram Stoker's widow found out about it, she got pissed, filed a lawsuit and won. The verdict was that all copies and prints were to be handed over to her to be destroyed. However one copy escaped Germany and, well...

@christopherkaylor2940 2 жыл бұрын

Shadow of the Vampire is a comedic version of making of Nosferatu, where the actor "Max Shreck", (German for Terror)was a "method" actor, and Nosferatu is 100 years old

@AspieMediaBobby 2 жыл бұрын

Fun Fact:This was the first unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker`s Dracula but the novel hadn`t gone into the public domain yet so Bram Stoker`s widow Florence Stoker successfully sued the studio, forcing them to change all the character names from the Novel(Of course, in the English translation and Remake they just changed the names back because by that time the Novel was in the public domain) .Also, this film was the origin of the Hollywood idea of sunlight burning vampires to dust. In the Novel, Dracula was only slightly weakened and more easily killable by sunlight but did not actually literally burn up in sunlight until after this film.

@TTM9691 2 жыл бұрын

Jen, you are a FANTASTIC reactor to what I'll call "the silver screen years". Both this and "Frankenstein" were an absolute joy to watch. Regarding silent movies, I've become totally obsessed with them over the last six or seven years, largely due to how easy they are to see on youtube. These are definitely the days to get into them, more than anytime in my past, when they would often be shown in bad prints, at the wrong speed, with inappropriate music. And that's the way they've been shown pretty much since the 40s. There is a FANTASTIC 13-part documentary series that I cannot recommend enough....and the good news is that it's here on youtube. Narrated by none other than James Mason (reason enough to watch it, just to spend 13 more hours with that voice and personality), "Hollywood: A Celebration Of The American Silent Film" is so mind-blowing, I cannot even begin to tell you how much. Some episodes, like the second one, definitely the fifth one, or the last one (or actually.....virtually all of them!) are so awe-inspiring and crammed with information, you feel almost giddy. Not for a reaction video, but just for your own film knowlege....you will understand SO MUCH about movies today, and why the movie business is the way it is, and certain tropes and "cliches"......definitely watch that. I tell you the truth: at the very, very end of the last, heartbreaking episode.....you're going to want to jump into the screen and go with them. I promise you, that's going to be your feeling. I LOVED this reaction......and it's not even my fave silent, nowhere close. I don't expect your channel to turn into the silver screen channel, but definitely fee free to hit any movie from any time period, it certainly won't keep ME away.

@atorthefightingeagle9813 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Jen, horror has always been the most popular movie genre although no movie critic would ever be prepared to admit it. The first horror movie was the Devil In The Convent from 1900 just 5 years after the Lumiere Brothers debuted a film of a train coming down a track to a paying audience in Paris. The oldest moving footage was that of some road traffic filmed in Leeds, England in 1888. I would highly recommend the shorts filmed by Mitchell & Kenyon in the North of England between 1899 and 1904. Its an archive made up of hundreds of films that were found in the basement of a shop in the 1990's in Blackburn, Lancashire. The BBC did a 3 part series on this a few years ago. This is cinema in its infancy and is an absolute treasure trove. In fact, cinemas didn't exist at the time

@CaptainNice 2 жыл бұрын

Next year, this will be 100 years old. There should be a party or something.Thomas Edison (the light bulb guy) produced Frankenstein in 1910. In the theater, the score was provided by a live orchestra. Talking films took off during the Great Depression. In the roaring 20s someone who was ok in high school band could get a theater orchestra job, in the 30s - not so much.

@thelmmoviechannel2204 2 жыл бұрын

It is 100 years old. Released in 1922, but filmed August - October 1921.

@tubekulose 2 жыл бұрын

Never trust a silent movie soundtrack! Back then they used to play music live in the theaters. So every performance was different. And when they brought out media like video cassettes, DVDs later on, then Blu-ray discs, internet services etc.: they put random music into the movies. I myself possess a "Nosferatu"-version with organ music by J.S.Bach. 🙂

@trentbresler3179 2 жыл бұрын

What is crazy is most of the places where this movie was filmed is still standing in Slovakia. Max Schreck (his last name means terror in German) was just a really tall skinny actor. He died soon after this movie was made, so people thought he was a different actor or a real vampire because no one could find him. There are plenty of people that believe they made the vampire to look more Jewish (Balding head, large nose, rat teeth) because of the time this film was made (right before Hitler took power in Germany). I love the early films out of Germany in the 1920 Back when expressionism was king and they could play with the lights and angles of the shot to get a surreal feel from the shots.

@roddmatsui3554 2 жыл бұрын

The classiiiiiiiiiics man. Really. This is the serious material here.

@edwardsighamony 2 жыл бұрын

I remember watching this as a young film buff and finding it alternately silly and creepy. This film follows the book in broad outline, but all the names were changed. And the ending in the book is more exciting. F. W. Murnau was one of early, great directors. He made 21 features, only 12 of which are left. Quite a few of his fall into the horror category.

@Ninnative 2 жыл бұрын

When you're up to it, you should watch the Universal three: Dracula (1931), The Wolf Man (1941) and Frankenstein (1931).

@ReelReviewsWithJen 2 жыл бұрын

I’m watching Frankenstein this week so stay tuned!

@AutoPilate 2 жыл бұрын

Bride of Frankenstein too. Then Gods and Monsters.

@roddmatsui3554 2 жыл бұрын

LOOK at Dracula’s/Orlok’s head. He’s wearing a huge and fairly complex (beautifully sculpted) rubber head appliance! It’s STILL a VERY effective makeup design, a hundred years after the fact.

@Chameleon-wq4ul 2 жыл бұрын

There is a lot of information about it online, but basically, they changed names of the characters, places to avoid copyright issues. So Dracula became Nosferatu etc. That didn't help them though 😂.That castle, where vampire lives, actually exists in real life and is called Orava castle. There are some cool videos about how it looks today.

@KC1976fromDetroit 2 жыл бұрын

The film was planned as one of the first adaptations of Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula. They did not get permission or the rights to the story from Stoker's wife, so F.W. Murnau and his writer changed the names to try and make it "different" enough as to not infringe on the novel. The Stoker family sued Murnau for copyright infringement and won, and the courts ordered all prints of the film destroyed. Only a few copies of the film survived in private collections and in storerooms.

@BaldJean 2 жыл бұрын

"Schreck", the last name of the actor who played Nosferatu, is actually German for "fright" or "scare". Never did an actor have a more appropriate real name for his role.

@LarryFleetwood8675 2 жыл бұрын

Apparently, Orlok's clothes wasn't really black but rather a very dark blue color. The castle still stands, on IMDb under Filming & Production it's all there for the locations, etc.

@garysatterlee9455 2 жыл бұрын

NOSFERATU was an unauthorized filming of DRACULA. Therefore, Bram Stoker's widow objected and managed to get the film banned in the 1920s. I believe that most copies of the movie were actually destroyed. So, very few audiences actually got to see it when it was a new film. A surviving copy of the film turned up years and years later so, more modern audiences are more familiar with it than were people who were contemporary when it was made.

@lukebarton5075 2 жыл бұрын

Nice reaction! Great to see your appreciation for cinema history. If you haven’t seen them there’s 3 horror/thrillers that I would highly recommend you checking out; “Dead of Night” (1945), “Les Diaboliques” (1955) & “Don’t Look Now” (1973)

@markwright6496 Жыл бұрын

This was. Made in 1922 n they did not have the rights to the story from Bram Stokers wife so she sued them but there was no money so all prints had to be destroyed but we’re not here we are . The book what written in 1897 by Bram Stoker . Hence Bram Stokers Dracula in 1992 .

@ronaldjeffrey8712 2 жыл бұрын

One of the things I always found fascinating about black and white movies, is the issue of color contrast. Many times very odd color combinations needed to be use since in b&w certain colors will appear the same. For instance in the old 1950's "Adventures of Superman" the Superman costume was actually gray and sort of a rusty brown, because on a gray scale blue and red appear almost the same color. By all accounts I've seen in this film Orlock was actually pressed in a dark purple jacket with dark gray or black pants.

@oaf-77 2 жыл бұрын

You might also like Herzog’s ‘Nosferatu the Vampyre’ (1979) it’s a remake but really good.

@richardb6260 2 жыл бұрын

Now you should watch "Shadow of the Vampire" It's set during the making of "Nosferatu". Wilem Dafoe plays Max Shreck, the actor who "played" the vampire. Another influential horror film from the silent era is "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari".

@vaclavjonas2671 2 жыл бұрын

10:29 Yes this castle still exist. This scene with castle was made in Czechoslovakia🇨🇿. Czechoslovakia was divided into Czech Republic🇨🇿 and Slovak Republic🇸🇰. This castle is in Slovakia today. Name of castle is Oravský hrad. By the way I'm from Czech republic. (Yes Czech Republic retained the flag of Czechoslovakia.) Wikipedia: Czechoslovakia: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia Castle: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orava_Castle

@TheNeonRabbit 2 жыл бұрын

The idea was to make a Dracula movie but they couldn't get the rights from Bram Stoker's estate. Count Dracula became Count Orlok etc., several other changes were made to dodge any copyright claims. Even with the changes Stoker's heirs sued and the court ordered all copies of the film to be destroyed. What we have now is bits and pieces stitched together.

@AspieMediaBobby 2 жыл бұрын

They filmed in Slovakia, set in the fictitious German village of Wisbourg and Transylvania which originally and currently is in Romania but at the time of "Nosferatu" and "Dracula"(1931) was in Hungary ,which prior to the end of World War I, was a singular imperial power with Austria .

@anthonymunn8633 2 жыл бұрын

The director changed all the character names to try to get around the copyright on the novel.Stoker's widow sued and won,with the negatives being destroyed.A few prints survived,and various restorations have been made from them. And although shot in B/W,the original German release was indeed tinted like this. And the castle still exists.The BBC documentary Horror Europa has host Mark Gatiss visiting the castle.

@ElliotNesterman 2 жыл бұрын

This film invented the trope that vampires will die in sunlight. In Stoker's novel Dracula is simply weakened in sunlight, and comes into his full powers at night.

@a.paulafernandes 2 жыл бұрын

Murnau is one of the most important filmmakers of the silent area. His films are art. I recommend Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927).

@Rebel9668 2 жыл бұрын

As the films were silent, the Directors could and often did direct the actors while the scene was being shot. A very cool take on this movie is another movie starring John Malkovich as F.W. Murnau, Willem Dafoe as Max Schrek and Cary Elwes as Fritz Arno Wagner in "Shadow of The Vampire". If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend watching it.

@ThatJohnKillion1970 2 жыл бұрын

The Max Schreck name was borrowed for Christopher Walken's character in Batman Returns.

@bobmessier5215 2 жыл бұрын

The castle featured in Nosferatu still exists today (100 years later). It's a tourist spot. KZfaq has a video tour that you can watch.

@robertlancaster4538 2 жыл бұрын

The idea of sunlight dissolving a vampire didn't come from Stoker's novel, where Dracula, though without his full powers, is still able to be active and relatively (by ordinary standards) powerful and agile during the daytime.

@coreyhendricks9490 2 жыл бұрын

This is the first time a vampire debut on screen and this movie ranked at #47 in the 100 scariest movie moments on Bravo

@002DrEvil 2 жыл бұрын

Apparently it was filmed in Orava Castle in Slovakia. It was filmed around various locations in Slovakia and Germany.

@robertlancaster4538 2 жыл бұрын

The Bremen Germany 1830's setting was an idea for the film; the Stoker novel is set in the early 1890's Great Britain.

@williamwatashe6013 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome as always Jen. Boris Karloff and Bella Lugosi are were the makeup effects came in play with your mummy, wearwolf and Frankenstein's monster. My dad still has all the Creepy and Erie mags from the 60's might add them to your resurch.

@sca88 2 жыл бұрын

Horror was popular in early silent films and the 1920's but films like Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, The Invisible Man, King Kong and others in the 30's really increased their popularity.

@alberthart4146 2 жыл бұрын

Shadow Of The Vampire starring John Malkovich. Malkovich plays the director of Nosferatu...basically a movie of the "behind the scenes" to this movie. its one you should watch if you enjoyed Nosferatu

@larry6360 2 жыл бұрын

There are so many more silent era films you should check out if you haven't already. Anything with Lon Chaney for sure is a must see. (Phantom of The Opera) Here's a few others that a worth a look: Der Golem The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Metropolis The Man Who Laughs The Silent Carriage Haxan Frankenstein (1910) The Infernal Cauldron Faust I have a massive movie collection going back to these greats and since we're at the 100th Anniversary of many of them, a tribute is definitely in order. Thanks for reacting to these wonderful films were very lucky to still have access to. Some are lost forever, like London After Midnight. A real tragedy.

@LarryFleetwood8675 2 жыл бұрын

This film was actually shot October 1921, so it was made exactly 100 years ago when you watched this. 🧛‍♂

@ReelReviewsWithJen 2 жыл бұрын

So cool!

@ElliotNesterman 2 жыл бұрын

All the effects in the film were pioneered by the great French director Georges Melies. You should watch his 1902 short "A Trip to the Moon." Inspired by novels of Wells and Verne it is the earliest science fiction movie. There are several versions on youtube, with different musical accompaniments. Another important silent horror is the 1920 German expressionist film _The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari._ Directed by Robert Wiene it stars Werner Krauss and Conrad Veidt. Probably the first classic horror film is likely Edison's 1910 short, _Frankenstein._

@fynnthefox9078 2 жыл бұрын

You should react to Tod Browning's Freaks. It'd make for a great and interesting reaction since REAL sideshow performers were in the film. There's also, I think, 30 minutes of footage missing since it got banned for being "too shocking".

@jean-paulaudette9246 2 жыл бұрын

Gooble gobble

@sca88 2 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite films. I also have a Leila Hyams coffee mug.

@AutoPilate 2 жыл бұрын

The movie killed Browning’s career, alas, but today he’s finally recognized for the amazing talent he was.

@goldenager59 2 жыл бұрын

Enthusiastic seconding for "Freaks", a feature that has to be seen (actually, goggled over) to be disbelieved. By turns heartwarming and harrowing, it treats its curious stable of stars with immense respect. You'll appreciate how far we've come in tolerating those born into unusual bodies and affording them fair opportunities in life aside from displaying themselves. (Not that there's anything wrong with that, as Seinfeld might say.) 😱 🥺 😢 😮 😀

@adamkadman 2 жыл бұрын

I cannot get over how beautiful this print is. I am so impressed at the quality and sheer detail. I have seen this film 20 years ago and you could barely make out the images. Wonderful restoration !

@peytone5387 2 жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure the music featured in this restored version of the film is the original score that was written for the film, just a new recording of it, and it definitely would have been played at some screenings including the premiere. That being said silent film music varied depending on where you saw a film; a lot of theatres featured pianists, organists, or even small orchestras and the music played could vary from place to place. Also, I loooove the color tinting. Most silent films had some form of color tinting done to them. Tinting could denote locations, mood, time of day, etc.

@robertstuart480 2 жыл бұрын

I thought of two more classic film recommendations. "Harvey" (1950) "Arsenic And Old Lace" (1944)

@rofyle 2 жыл бұрын

Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman) is currently in preproduction for a remake of this.

@gregorybrown3272 2 жыл бұрын

All scenes tinted green were scenes that are meant to signify a lighted environment, and all the scenes that were pink were meant to simulate dark.

@ooEVILGOAToo 2 жыл бұрын

Bela Lugosi did the definitive "Dracula" 1931

@clbaker8356 2 жыл бұрын

Check out a film called Shadow of the Vampire. It's basis is what if the actor in Nosferatu was an actual vampire and what happens while filming the 1922 classic. Dafoe and Malkovich. In a lot of silent films the director would talk throughout the filming telling the actors exactly what they wanted for a scene.

@dmtry9359 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you're delving into the classics. Looking forward to you exploring more.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Yes I definitely need to catch up on these classics!

@nerdymetaldude 2 жыл бұрын

I'm in my 50's and have been a student of horror since I was a wee little boy. This movie remains one of my favorites of all time. When I was a kid, my brother and I would gleefully watch it every Halloween season when it would come on PBS. I went a few years before reading Stoker's novel, but when I finally did, whooo... I finally understood the power of good writing. All of a sudden, I found my nose in book after book: R.E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, then on to Stephen King, Clive Barker and so many more. Thanks for the great reaction to a true classic!

@pulsarstargrave256 2 жыл бұрын

1.This is one of the few examples of GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM in film to have survived. GE started in paintinv but film makers accepted it; where exaggerated body language and "expression" conveyed emotions rather than dialogue. There are a few videos on KZfaq that deal with the subject in detail. For a long time most copies found were in black and white. In the 90s I think one of F.W.Murnau's copies was found and it seems the director hand tinted various scenes and like an Expressionist painter, each color was chosen to convey a different mood! You apparently have a restored copy! 2.This was an illegal adaptation of the novel DRACULA...Mrs.Stoker sued, won the case and all copies were to be destroyed! Some survived, thank goodness! 3. Adolph Hitler hated German Expressionism and persecuted artists who worked in that style. Artists fled Germany and came to America, influencing art and cinema for several years! The movies THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and THE SON OF FRANKENSTEIN were both influenced by German Expressionism!

@markjone671 2 жыл бұрын

The word Nosferatu has various suggested origins. Depending on which source you go to. It either means 'Undead,' 'Not dead' or 'Night Creature' but in later years has also been used to distinguish the vampire from the 1922 film. He's usually known more commonly as Nosferatu than Count Orlock. Although in some restorations, he has been renamed Dracula as the Dracula novel is now well out of copyright. In the 1979 remake, the character is called Dracula and not Orlock. The castle in the film is Orava castle in northern Slovakia, which is a now a tourist attraction because of its connection to this movie. It's courtyard is instantly recognisable from the film. If you're doing film history, I would strongly suggest you check out the Hammer Films. The Curse of Frankenstein is the first Gothic horror film to be shot in colour and use full colour gore effects. It's also a pretty classy production and was instrumental in changing the landscape of the horror genre for over a decade and beyond. It was made in 1957 and the Hammer Films are highly revered by film makers such as Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. The Brides of Dracula from 1960 is another excellent Hammer Film providing inspiration for Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow and The Woman in Black is a more recent Hammer Film from 2012.

@czarmike414 2 жыл бұрын

Back in the 20s it only took a few months or weeks to make a movie. Also the early silent films had a live orchestra playing the music to the audience or they played a record to add the music as the magnetic strip for sound had not yet been perfected.

@sca88 2 жыл бұрын

Exterior shots filmed in Slovakia and interior back in Berlin Germany.

@aitanacruz9882 Жыл бұрын

10:12 That WAS the Count. Boy just swapped clothes in a hearbeat.

@jean-paulaudette9246 2 жыл бұрын

Another excellent silent film, of the sci-fi genre, is called "Metropolis.' Worth a look!

@ReelReviewsWithJen 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve heard about it but I haven’t seen it yet, it’s been on the watchlist for too long!

@Emburbujada 2 жыл бұрын

@@ReelReviewsWithJen Yes! Please, watch Metropolis! It's so good!

@goldenager59 2 жыл бұрын

@@Emburbujada Metropolis is a mighty cinematic monument, there more so as it is at long last available in an edition which comes close to completion. Fritz Lang's epic had been butchered in the editing rooms following it's premiere, and for many decades it could be viewed only in a severely truncated version. But much missing footage turned up in Argentina earlier in the century and made it possible for us to behold it as it was intended to be all along (more or less). Science fiction magazine editor Hugo Gernsback had brought out his first publications within the year of Metropolis's premiere, and the genre has never been out of favor since. Watch it and open your mind to a new appreciation of cinematic values. 🤩 😊

@beckyjones3578 2 жыл бұрын

My dad(who passed away in 1995),saw this in the movie theatures.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 2 жыл бұрын

That would have been an amazing experience!

@tarzapopohead 2 жыл бұрын

"2000 Shadow Of A Vampire" will answer most of your questions on how this film was made. It stars William Dafoe and John Malkovich Just kind of overlook the parts that make it a movie and not a documentary.

@auckalukaum 2 жыл бұрын

The director, FW Murnau, was arguably the first superstar director, in the German Expressionist movement. He became very popular for films like Nosferatu and Sunrise, and moved to Hollywood, where he promptly died in a car accident. You definitely need to see Shadow of the Vampire, which is a fictionalized retelling of the making of Nosferatu, in which Max Schreck was actually a real vampire playing Count Orlock, and members of the movie crew keep going missing. John Malkovich plays Murnau, and Willem DaFoe plays Schreck. Regarding the lore, it obviously varies from source to source, but generally, being bit by a vampire doesn't turn you into one. You have to also drink the vampire's blood before you die. Although in some sources, if you are killed by the vampire's bite you'll turn into one, but they can keep feeding off you night after night without killing you, and you won't become one.

@douglascampbell9809 2 жыл бұрын

You have to watch the OG horror films like Frankenstein (1931), Dracula (1931), The Mummy (1932), Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954), Them (1954), The Wolfman (1941).

@FatzGeronimo1982 2 ай бұрын

Though I am late at 19:46 they placed a board behind/ in his coat right And he was laying on someone and that person took a thick dowel or use their arms to push max shreck (the actor who plays nosferatu) up Or they hooked wires to his shoulders in his coat and pulled him up Those are the 2 theory’s

@002DrEvil 2 жыл бұрын

It was common in the 20s to have different scenes in different colours. It usually represented a change in location or time of day.

@rabbitandcrow 2 жыл бұрын

There was a great, really unsettling remake in 1979 by Werner Herzog, with Klaus Kinski and Isabelle Adjani.

@carlossaraiva8213 2 жыл бұрын

4 other great black and white horror films are The Cabinet Of Doktor Caligari, The Phamtom Of The Opera, Carl Dyer's Vampyr and the very first The Mummy movie with Boris Karloff.

@richmcclure3917 2 жыл бұрын

This is an example of German Expressionism. You should read about it, it was a pretty interesting movement in the 1910's and 1920's. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is another good movie from the movement , you should watch that next year.