What is Nosferatu about?
The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.
Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)
No. Brace yourself.
Nosferatu (1922)
A chilling, slow-burn fantasy of a Transylvanian count and a real estate deal gone bleakly wrong.
Bleak. A late-night trip that takes its time. Emotionally it is heavy.
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Nosferatu parents guide
There is no US rating to lean on, so here is what we tagged: real scares.
- Scare
- Properly scary
- Frightening, not just tense.
- Jump scares
- A couple
- One or two sudden jolts.
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- None flagged
- It has no US rating to check against, so treat our zero as unconfirmed.
- Language
- None flagged
- It has no US rating to check against, so treat our zero as unconfirmed.
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Three questions
- Is Nosferatu scary?
- Yes, properly. Nosferatu is the real thing without being an endurance test.
- How gory is Nosferatu?
- No gore and some violence. Squeamish viewers are fine here.
Cast and crew
Directed byF. W. Murnau
StarringMax Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Georg H. Schnell, Ruth Landshoff, Gustav Botz
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Nosferatu is on our Scary, not gory; Slow burns; Vampires; Under 90 minutes; and German lists.
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