Nosferatu

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Shadow of Count Orlok, the vampire, with clawed hands and hunched posture, cast on a staircase wall in a scene from the 1922 film Nosferatu directed by F.W. Murnau.

Max Schreck as Graf Orlok in Nosferatu (1922) crouches over a bed, with a bald head, pointed ears, and long clawed fingers, in a dimly lit room.

The vampire rising from a coffin in Nosferatu

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Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter stands in front of parted curtains, illuminated by eerie blue light, in a publicity still from the 2024 film Nosferatu directed by Robert Eggers.

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Added cross-reference to Lily-Rose Depp.	Will Gosner	Sep 03, 2026
	Invalidated site: BBC - Nosferatu: The monster who still terrifies, 100 years on.	Grace Young	Aug 19, 2026
	Add new Web site: NPR - 'Nosferatu' is a reimagining of a classic vampire film.	Aakanksha Gaur	Aug 18, 2026
	Add new Web site: BBC - Nosferatu: The monster who still terrifies, 100 years on.	Grace Young	Jun 12, 2026
	Add new Web site: ABC listen - Robert Eggers's Nosferatu casts a clawed hand over 100 years of vampire cinema.	Aakanksha Gaur	Apr 24, 2026
	Add new Web site: Academia - NOSFERATU: Murnau's Use of Expressionism in his Film (PDF).	Grace Young	Jun 28, 2025
	Cross-reference added.	Tara Ramanathan	May 13, 2025
	Add new Web site: Humanities Institute - Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) (PDF).	Gloria Lotha	Mar 21, 2025
	Add new Web site: The Ohio State University - Waking Dreams: F.W. Murnaus Nosferatu and Weimar Era Cinema (PDF).	Gloria Lotha	Dec 05, 2024
	Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Nosferatu (1922).	Gloria Lotha	Aug 12, 2024
	Add new Web site: BBC - Nosferatu review: A vampire film with 'so much to sink your teeth into'.	Gloria Lotha	May 20, 2024
	Add new Web site: The New York Times - 100 Years of �Nosferatu,� the Vampire Movie That Won�t Die.	Gloria Lotha	Apr 11, 2024
	Add new Web site: Filmsite - Nosferatu.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 26, 2024
	Add new Web site: Internet Archive - "Nosferatu" (1922).	Aakanksha Gaur	Dec 07, 2023
	Display issue corrected.	J.E. Luebering	Oct 16, 2023
	New article added.	Adam Zeidan Don Vaughan	Oct 06, 2023