FILM 1121: NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE
TRIVIA: The scene where Nosferatu
arrives in the city required thousands of grey rats. Real grey rats were
unavailable and therefore white ones were painted grey and used instead.
As this movie was made long after
the copyright to Bram Stoker's
Dracula had expired, Werner Herzog
decided to restore the original names of the characters, while still following
the movie blueprint laid out by F.W. Murnau's
Nosferatu (1922).
Klaus Kinski had to spend
approximately four hours per day in make-up. Fresh latex ear pieces had to be
poured for each day of shooting because they were destroyed at removal. Kinski,
notorious for his violent daily temper-tantrums, had a very good relationship
to Japanese make-up artist Reiko Kruk
and was exceedingly patient and well-behaved during make-up.
One of five Dracula movies made and
released around 1979. The films are Dracula (1979), Nosferatu the Vampyre
(1979), Love at First Bite (1979),
Nocturna (1979) and Graf Dracula (beißt jetzt) in
Oberbayern (1979). Also from 1979 were the vampire movies Thirst (1979) and Salem's Lot (1979).
CAMEO: Werner Herzog: the
person who sticks his foot into the coffin and gets his toe bitten by a rat.
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