Monster of the Day #3273

Updated on September 29, 2021 By Ken Begg 11 Comments

Still one of the best vampire films. Vampyr is pretty great too.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    Costume guy’s name is like “White Gray”?

  • The lead actor’s name translates roughly as “Maximum Terror”……

  • I actually finished this one, and had I been asked, I’d have told you I rather liked it.

    Then I read the mini review I did for it last year and found out it bored me to tears.

    Finished it, though. And think it’s mandatory viewing if you have an interest in Horror.

    Funny how this movie was supposed to be destroyed and survived, yet London at Midnight had no such edict against it and is lost…

  • Gamera977

    I still think this is what vampires SHOULD look like.

  • Ken_Begg

    Thank goodness somebody hid some prints. Mrs Stoker was entirely within her rights, but history is glad that the film has survived. And although the movies didn’t completely revise vampire lore the way Curt Siodmak pretty much created werewolf lore from whole cloth, it is notable that Nosferatu invented the idea that vampires perish in sunlight.

  • Closest to Stoker’s description, too….

  • Eric Hinkle

    I dunno. We need more ugly vampires, yes, but I think I prefer Ingrid Pitt’s beauty being intact when she was a Hammer vampire.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Didn’t Murnau and his crew literally toss that in at the last moment to justify how they were going to kill Orlock? ‘How will he die? The sunlight kills him? Sure, why not.’

  • Ken_Begg

    If so, man, it sure stuck.

  • Gamera977

    Yeah, I finally read ‘Carmilla’ so an attractive vamp makes sense to lure in prey. I just prefer to have them ugly monsters on the inside if nothing else rather than the poor misunderstood victims you see too often anymore.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Yeah. I get a little tired of the romanticizing of what are basically cannibal murderers too. I can still enjoy it when it’s well done but so often it boils down to ‘I eat people to live and can’t go out during the day, now feel sorry for me.’