Max Schreck

That's the question posed by German writer Stefan Eickhoff, whose book Max Schreck: Gespenstertheater (Ghost Theatre) is set to be published in English later this year. Despite delivering many fascinating details about Schreck's public body of work, Eickhoff freely admits he was unable to satisfactorally answer the question, since information on Schreck's private life was extremely difficult to come by. The mystery surrounding the man who played the screen's first Count Dracula in F.W. Murnau's 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu is one of the things that led to the long-running urban legend of Schreck's real-life vampirism--a legend Eickhoff reports was first jokingly popularized in a French ... Read Full Story

Although this is a fairy-tale blog, sometimes I can't resist a deviation from the theme. Today, it's cold, rainy and gray in Northern Indiana, and since it is October, I'm in a Nosferatu kind of mood. Because ... before there was Edward and Bella before there was Coppola's regrettable Dracula in 1992 before there was Stephen King's super-awesome 'Salem's Lot , and a pretty good mini-series by the same name before Dark Shadows before all of those outstanding Hammer Studios vampire films before, even, Bela Lugosi in 1931's Dracula but after Bram Stoker's Dracula ... There was Max Schreck in the creepiest silent movie ... Read Full Story

Nosferatu (1922) Many horror freaks call F.W. Murnau’s silent German classic the scariest Dracula adaptation ever. The bone-chilling tale kicks off when a sailor on a ghost ship opens a coffin, thereby releasing a vampire named Count Orlok who sets off on a rampage of terror aimed at a real estate agent and his comely wife. The creepy caped one is played by Max Schreck, sporting grotesque makeup that transforms him into a symbol of pestilence and decay. Not the trailer but the whole movie! For the first time we will have to whole Friday Fused Film Classic on the the site. I chose ... Read Full Story

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