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Shadow of the Vampire (2001)
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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...
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| Shadow of the Vampire Movie Review by Movie Addict (7/14/2009) |
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If you are into vampires, then you must, and probably have seen Nosferatu with Max Schreck as Count Orloff. Was Schrenk playing a vampire, or was he really a vampire? We don't think of Schrenk, we think of Count Orloff.
In this film, we have the question answered. There is no doubt that Schrenk was a vampire, and Willem...
(complete Shadow of the Vampire review by Movie Addict)
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