Nosferatu

 Movie and pizza night, and Noshi selected Nosferatu to be the evening's entertainment.

Now, this is a remake of the 1922 movie, full with name related easter eggs on that part, while the original was an unofficial adaption of the well-known Bram Stoker Dracula story.

Early in the 1800s, a young girl called Ellen pleads for an angel to come to her and aleviate her loneliness, and her cries are answered by something far sinister.  In 1838, she has married Thomas Hutter, living in Wisburg, and who is out to get a promotion to buy them a decent house and provide for his family.  He is send to Count Orlok in Romania, ignoring pleas from Ellen who has had disturbing dreams of late.

In Romania, he is shunned by the populace for associating with the Count, and he meets the strange, reclusive Count in his castle.  Strange things start to happen to Thomas, and he eventually manages to escape the castle and be nursed back to health by nuns, as Orlok sails for Wisburg in a ship infested with rats carrying the Plague.

Ellen remains plagued by nightmares and sleepwalking, and her physician, dr Sievers, looks to his mentor.  The eccentric von Franz, a scientist with an intrest in the occult.  He believes Ellen is under the spell of a vampyr called Nosferatu, and find out he is in truth the Count Orlok.  As Thomas returns, they start hunting the monster, as one of the papers he signed is actually an occult contract to get Ellen for him and voiding their marriage.  Ellen confesses her past with the Count, who in the meantime kills their friends to force to choose him.

But the only way to destroy him is by a fair maiden's willing sacrifice, and knowing only she is the answer she conspires with von franz to lure Thomas away.  She pledges herself to him, allowing him to feed of her until the sun comes up and kills him, and she succumbs to the bloodloss in the arms of Thomas.

Now, it was okay, though I personally didn't like Willem Dafoe's performance in this film, his american accent to heavy amongst the british of the rest of the cast.  On a horror level though, Last Voyage of the Demeter which I reveiewed earlier this year was way spookier though.  

It wasn't bad, but I can't say I was wild about this movie...