German Expressionist films are not exactly popular fodder for the contemporary remake machine. Most are silent and at least a century old, and almost all of them are the product of artists tapped into ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. While Robert Eggers’ new version of Nosferatu naturally hearkens F.W. Murnau’s 1922 horror ...

Back in 1922, German Expressionist filmmaker F. W. Murnau wanted to make his own horror picture based on Bram Stoker's Dracula. Because Dracula was copywritten material, Murnau and company were forced ...

Horror films have been a fan favorite for over a century, with 'Nosferatu' paving the way.

American writer-director Robert Eggers is making an impressive bid to be one of the leading filmmakers associated with the ’20s—the 1920s, when the crepuscular, emotion-laden style we now call German ...

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror may be 102 years old, but like its vampire protagonist, Count Orlok, it’s timeless. The German Expressionist flick was an unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel ...

A silent horror film with a spiritual lesson? The sacramental meaning hidden in Nosferatu is worth a closer look. 'Nosferatu,' the 1922 German silent horror film from F.W. Murnau, is on the Vatican's ...

Nosferatu, a remake of a German Expressionist vampire movie from 1922 packed with period costumes and grisly murder, does not scream “Christmas Day release.” (I would say it screams more “MY NECK! MY ...

Graverobbers have stolen from a crypt the head of German expressionist cinema great Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, director of the silent-film vampire classic “Nosferatu”, reports said Wednesday. Police ...