Max Schreck

Max Schreck gives an unforgettable performance in Nosferatu (1922) as Count Orlok. With his bald head, pointy ears, rat-like teeth, and talon-like hands, he's one of the most physically repulsive creatures in all of cinema. Read a DVD review of Nosferatu. Nosferatu DVD Cover Art - © Image EntertainmentNosferatu DVD Review originally appeared on About.com DVD on Monday, October 26th, 2009 at 01:48:04.Permalink | Comment | Email this  

Since its 1922 debut, F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" has remained the prototype for all notable vampire thrillers that aspire to be taken seriously as imaginative inducements to apprehension. In pursuit of this aim, the figure of the vampire Nosferatu (purloined from Bram Stoker's Dracula without respect for copyright) was not comely or disarming in the slightest. As embodied by Max Schreck, he was a wraith, at once skeletal and spidery...  

OverTheLimit.info (blog)Top Ten Tuesday: The Worst Vampires in Film HistoryWe Are Movie GeeksThese are creatures of the night so goofy, so lame, and so odd, they make us dream of the days of Max Schreck. Hell, they make us long for the days of ...Classic vampire films preceding “Twilight”The News RecordThe top 12 onscreen vampires?stv.tvHas brooding, glittery Edward taken bite out of classic vampires?California ChronicleNBC Washingtonall 214...  

MOVIEPILOT NEWSDie ersten Vampirstars der FilmgeschichteMOVIEPILOT NEWSDoch selbst in dieser leicht erregbaren Epoche dürfte es Graf Orlock (Max Schreck) schwergefallen sein, die holde Weiblichkeit für sich zu begeistern. ...  

I vampiri non mordono più. Ora sono romanticiil GiornaleQuello, per intenderci, che sullo schermo fu interpretato dal fantomatico Max Schreck (il nome in tedesco suona come «Massimo Terrore») e poi dal sulfureo ...  

Free Movie of the Day: 'Vampire's Kiss'Moviefone... one who takes his cues on how to act like a vampire from having watched Max Schreck in 'Nosfertu,' all raised eyebrows, hunched over and clasping his ...  

Pains in the neckNew York PostAll these years later, the pic's vampire, Max Schreck -- with rodent-like face, grotesque ears and elongated fingers and fingernails -- remains the screen's ...and more »  

Biss zum bitteren EndeSpiegel OnlineUnd nebenbei: So herrlich gruselig, so subtil erotisch wie der Schauspieler Max Schreck griff bislang noch kein Vampir dem Objekt seiner Begierde an die ...  

Virtuose des UnheimlichenTagesspiegelMax Schreck als „Nosferatu“ in Murnaus Filmklassiker. Foto: AKG Von Christian Schröder Sein Gesicht: ein Totenkopf. Die riesigen Ohren stehen ...