PG
Movie
107 Minutes
Werner Herzog Filmproduktion Gaumont ZDF
Twentieth Century Fox
PG
107 Minutes
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Send confirmation emailNosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Watched: February 2, 2026
The Plot: NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE Rating: 6.9 / 10
Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror. In short, it's every Dracula movie we've ever seen, but in 1979, this really wasn't the case, was it?
The Good: Klaus Kinski as Dracula was really quite haunting. Completely bald, utterly pale, with those horrible piercing buck teeth, Kinski's Dracula was really quite something to behold. He was also quite haunted and tragic, which we don't often see in Dracula.
The Bad: PG horror movies in general are hard for me to swallow, and it's ESPECIALLY weird to see a very late 70s Dracula horror movie that IS rated PG.
Maybe it's a me thing. I talk often enough about how difficult it is for horror directors to make anything less than an R-rated horror movie scary. Even if you take out the gore and violence in most horror flicks, there's still an element of suspense that seemingly requires a harder rating.
The Ugly: Some of the performances (Roland Topor as Renfield, for example) were just too weird for me. I suppose that's German cinema for you.
The Alternative: Since I DO rip on this movie for being un-scary as a PG flick AND claim it's hard to it right, I direct you to Mikael Håfström's 1408, starring John Cusak and Sam Jackson. That movie is harrowing in every way.
The Last Word: This one didn't meet my Febru-eerie criteria at all, but it does deserve the rating I gave it because it's not bad at all. Just kind of dry.
