Nosferatu, Phantom der Nacht (1979), ein Film von Werner Herzog.

I avoided Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu for years for several reasons. One, we don’t need another Count Dracula movie. Two, Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) traumatized me. Three, it had that The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) look. My aversion was misplaced. Although it has its tedious moments, Klaus Kinski’s performance is a creepy one for the ages, and Herzog allows the camera and the music to tell the story. A viewing is worth it for a single scene where Nosferatu traipses pathetically away from the camera, like a rat looking for food with an ultimate destination in mind, in the courtyard before the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, Netherlands (I think). Don’t watch this movie if you hate rats or the idea of a pathetic immortal lonely Klaus Kinski playing a rat.