Robert Eggers says that it isn't the sunlight that kills Orlok in Nosferatu, but the fact he isn't back in his grave by the first cock crow.

To describe a film about the making of the first vampire movie as 'bats' could never have been more appropriate than with Shadow Of The Vampire. The sort of cinematic folly that film buffs and ...

Shadow of the Vampire was shot in Luxembourg. According to the production notes, this was because the Grand Duchy 'claims to have more castle (sic) per square inch than any other country'.

Broadly based on Dracula, it has Max Schreck as vampire Count Orlock, who’s consumed by the need to drink the blood of a beautiful young woman (Greta Schröder). Orlock’s far from the ...