Graf Orlok: Your wife has such a beautiful neck...
[as Hutter is on his way to Knock's real estate office]

Prof. Bulwer: Not so hasty, young friend! No one can escape his destiny.
Knock, ein häusermakler: - of course, it will cost you some effort... a little sweat and... perhaps... a little blood.
Graf Orlok: You have hurt yourself... your precious blood!
Ellen Hutter, seine Frau: Why did you kill them... the lovely flowers...?
[And when he crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him]
Title Card: Nosferatu. Does this word not sound like the midnight call of the Bird of Death? Do not utter it, or the images of life will fade - into pale shadows and ghostly dreams will rise from your heart and feed your Blood.
Knock, ein häusermakler: Go quickly, travel safely, my young friend, to the land of ghosts.
Hutter: I am going far away to the land of robbers and ghosts.
Wirt, the Innkeeper: You must not go further, the werewolf haunts the woods.
Hutter: I am plagued by mosquitoes. Two have just bitten me on the neck, quite close together, one on each side.
Hutter: My dreams are heavy in this desolate castle, but do not fear.
Ellen Hutter, seine Frau: Hutter !
Hutter: Ellen ! Ellen !
Knock, ein häusermakler: Blood is life ! Blood is life !
Ellen Hutter, seine Frau: I must go to him. He is coming !
Knock, ein häusermakler: The Master is near... The Master is near...
Book: Of Vampires: At night, Nosferatu sinketh his fangs into his victim and feedeth on his blood = his hellish elixir of life.
Book: Of Vampires: Beware that his shadow doth not burden your dreams with horrible fears.
Book: Of Vampires: Wherefrom there is no salvation except that a woman without sin should cause the vampire to forget the first cock crow. Of her own free will she should give him her blood.
Ellen Hutter, seine Frau: Bulwer! Fetch Bulwer!

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Nosferatu short comments

Celia 2021-12-09 08:01:19

Nicht so hastig, junger Freund! Niemand enteilt seinem Schicksal. Young friends, don’t have to hurry! No one in this world can escape his fate.
Christiana 2021-12-09 08:01:19

The horror movie of the silent film era, the source of vampire movies for later generations. Mornau’s expressionism is too suitable for this horror genre, how the audience at that time could stand it.