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Krick Wurkheiser		#21	[-]
Jan 9 11 6:11 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hjalmar Poelzig wrote: Probably my favorite vampire film of the last 20 years. My favorite part was that the everybody thought that Max Schreck's strange behavior was due to the fact that he was a method actor. "Vhat an actor! ...Dedication."
delgadosaur		#22	[-]
Jan 11 11 2:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	When the lights come on and he's attacked one of the crew members, well, that was pretty creepy fun.
Krick Wurkheiser		#23	[-]
Jan 12 11 5:22 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	"Careful... careful... watch your *FINGER!!*"
delgadosaur		#24	[-]
Jan 13 11 3:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Does'nt he grab a bat out of thin air and consume it? Am I remembering this correctly?
Krick Wurkheiser		#25	[-]
Jan 13 11 4:57 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	delgadosaur wrote: Does'nt he grab a bat out of thin air and consume it? Am I remembering this correctly? Yes - that's the bit I quoted above. He sucks the guts out of the bat and runs off with the bottle of schnapps, and Grau-Kier is impressed with his method acting
stuthehistoryguy		#26	[-]
Jan 21 11 3:52 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I saw it at the historic Avon Theatre in Decatur, IL when it first came out--they followed it with Nosferatu as a midnight movie. At the time, I was afraid that it would have the same disinforming effect on the public vis a vis silent horror and vampire folklore as JFK and Crossroads had regarding the Kennedy assassination and Robert Johnson. Gladly, this has not been the case.
Robotrix		#27	[-]
May 9 11 3:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Krick Wurkheiser wrote: delgadosaur wrote: Does'nt he grab a bat out of thin air and consume it? Am I remembering this correctly? Yes - that's the bit I quoted above. He sucks the guts out of the bat and runs off with the bottle of schnapps, and Grau-Kier is impressed with his method acting Actually, they get the bottle back from him before he walks off....and the two of them actually wipe the bottle off and keep drinking from it! Even after Schreck had munched on the bat!!!! I know alcohol can kill germs but.... I love that scene because of the writing...the part where Schreck is talking about how "Dracula" made him sad. About the crushing loneliness that interacting with Harker and having to do the basic chores must have inspired.. It was so obvious he was projecting - talking about himself. And then he talks about the woman who turned him vampire who was gone so long she was barely a memory.... Reminded me of John Merrick talking about what a jerk Romeo was in the play "The Elephant Man". That's what I thought Schreck looking into the stage light at the end symbolized. Schreck originally only worked on the film for the blood of the leading lady. But he'd been lonely for so long that the interaction with living and breathing people again - was irresistible. It was like a moth to a flame for him...and ultimately destroys him. Same thing with the bit where he's looking into the telecine and seeing the footage of the sunrise....something he wouldn't have seen in centuries. Can't believe that some people here haven't even seen this all the way through....or think that it was a satire?!?!!
Uncle Bingo		#28	[-]
May 30 11 11:40 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Robotrix wrote: That's what I thought Schreck looking into the stage light at the end symbolized. Schreck originally only worked on the film for the blood of the leading lady. But he'd been lonely for so long that the interaction with living and breathing people again - was irresistible. It was like a moth to a flame for him...and ultimately destroys him. Good analysis. I'm really surprised this film doesn't get more love. What do the real horror scholars think about it?
flashback		#29	[-]
Apr 18 12 10:42 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	shadow of the vampire was one of the few interesting original films made in a long time. once i think about a real vampire being in the starring role the other inacuricies seem of no importance to me.
STALKER		#30	[-]
Apr 24 12 7:02 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I LOVED the concept, and I also just dig the whole look and feel of the film, very dark, very atmospheric. Great stuff.
jamesenstein31		#31	[-]
Apr 24 12 7:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	One of the best horror films of the last decade.
delgadosaur		#32	[-]
May 9 12 12:00 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There's creepiness in this film worthy of a David Lynch picture.

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