Isabelle Adjani and Klaus Kinski in the 1979 remake by Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog’s ‘Nosferatu the Vampyre’ on Amazon Prime Video

Nosferatu the Vampyre (Germany, 1979), Werner Herzog’s eerie color remake of F.W. Murnau’s original vampire classic (itself an unauthorized version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula), is at once faithful to Murnau’s film and quintessentially Herzogian. Klaus Kinski, Herzog’s demon alter ego, is both hideous and haunting as the chalk-skinned gargoyle, a melancholy monster seeking an end […]