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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 9781588177919
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1588177912
Label: Lions Gate
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageGermanOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
MPN: VMMD8338D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 17, 2003
Running Time: 92 minutes
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: January 26, 2001
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 06/17/2003 Rating: R
Amazon.com:
Clever, engaging, and boosted by the sublime casting of Willem Dafoe as Nosferatu actor Max Schreck, Shadow of the Vampire is a film full of good ideas that are only partially developed. Its premise is ripe with possibilities, but the movie's too slight to register much impact, so you're left to relish its delightful performances and director E. Elias Merhige's affectionately tongue-in-cheek homage to a landmark of German silent cinema. John Malkovich is aptly loony as the eccentric director F.W. Murnau, whose passion in filming the 1922 classic Nosferatu leads to the extreme casting of Schreck as the vampire, a vision of evil who, in this movie's delightfully twisted imagination, actually is a vampire, sucking the blood of cast and crewmembers who've dismissed Schreck as an overzealous method actor.
As these on-set maladies and "accidents" continue, Schreck wields greater control over Murnau, who descends into a kind of obsessive art-for-art's-sake madness until diva costar Greta Schroeder (Catherine McCormack, doing wonderful work) is served up as the actor's ultimate motivation. Merhige and his actors (including Cary Elwes, as intrepid cameraman Fritz Wagner) have great fun with this ghastly escapade, and the humor is kept delicately subtle to balance the movie's artistic aspirations. To that end, Dafoe is just right, his bald pate and gaunt features a perfect match for the mysterious Schreck, his grimace and talon-like fingers suggesting a human vulture on the prowl. Likewise, the re-creation of Nosferatu's expressionist style is both fanciful and brilliantly authentic. Too bad, then, that this movie suffers a mild case of vampiric anemia; if it shared the depth and richness of, say, Ed Wood, this might have been a cult classic for the ages. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating:  -
I find this story to be very well-written and (vampire)beautifully filmed. I appreciate that it was done without a lot of computer graphics. It's also a very interesting premise in the story line. Willem Defoe is so believeable in this role I forgot that I was watching an actor. And Malkovich performed with his usual and expected level of excellence in this character. This film maker was intense and detached. And he was appropriately torn and at the same time totally driven. I found the ending ... Read More
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a lot of vampire films should be held up for ridicule . i won't mention any by name here . the proliferation of reverent vampire films and related filmaking with long leather jackets and romance and pretentious scripts is a silly trend . a trend targeted at a young , white , male/female demographic that is too young and/or oblivious to seperate the wheat from the chaff . visit this film or "THE HUNGER" , hammer's "CURSE OF DRACULA" , "BLADE II" , "THIRTY DAYS OF NIGHT" , television's "THE NIGHT STALKER" ... Read More
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Shadow of the Vampire was almost as strange as the movie it "documented" the making of, "Nosferatu". It actually shouldn't be called a documentary because of the "supernatural on top of supernatural" theme it employed. Still, it was a very interesting presentation that I enjoyed and rate at four stars.
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This film is amazing, one of my favorite films. The story is good, John Malkovich is a tremendous actor.
Very well done.
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This movie takes place in the early 20's I believe. It is about a movie director who actually finds Nosferatu, and makes a deal with him that if he lets him film him he will let him have his leading lady as a victim at the end of the filming. It is so well done, it freaked me out the first time I watched it. John Malkovich is wonderful, as usual. The actor who plays Nosferatu does an incredible job: he is so disgusting and so much like what you would think Nosferatu would BE. A great movie to add to your ... Read More
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