The person and performance of Max Schreck in Nosferatu was fictionalized by actor Willem Dafoe in E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire. In a secret history, Shadow posits that Schreck was a real vampire.
Count Orlok (German: Graf Orlok; Romanian: Contele Orlok), commonly but erroneously known as Nosferatu, is a fictional character who appears in the silent film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) and in its remake Nosferatu (2024), which is based on Bram Stoker's character Count Dracula.
A fictionalised account of the making of F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent horror classic, Shadow of the Vampire toys with the notion that Nosferatu's star Max Schreck (played here by Dafoe) was actually a bona fide member of the undead.
Various names and other details were changed from the novel, including Count Dracula being renamed Count Orlok then finally Nosferatu, an archaic Romanian word with a suggested etymology of Nesuferitu`, meaning "the offensive one" or "the insufferable one".
In 1926, Schreck returned to the Kammerspiele in Munich and continued to act in films surviving the advent of sound until his death in 1936 of heart failure. He was buried on 14 March 1936 at Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof Stahnsdorf in Brandenburg.
She merely refers to "Nosferatu" as the Romanian word for vampire: More decidedly evil, however, is the vampire, or nosferatu, in which every Romanian peasant believes as firmly as he does in heaven or hell. There are two sorts of vampires-—living and dead.
In early versions of the film, the name "Dracula" was still used, making the plagiarism obvious. Florence Stoker promptly filed copyright infringement, with strict demands that the estate would be compensated for Nosferatu and all copies of the film would be destroyed.
Jure Grando Alilović or Giure Grando (1578–1656) was a villager from the region of Istria (in modern-day Croatia) who may have been the first real person described as a vampire in historical records. He was referred to as a štrigon, a local word for something resembling a vampire and a warlock.
Richard Trenton Chase (May 23, 1950 – December 26, 1980) was an American serial killer, cannibal, and necrophile who killed six people in Sacramento, California, from December 1977 to January 1978. He was nicknamed The Vampire of Sacramento because he drank his victims' blood and cannibalized their remains.
Dafoe plays a vampire hunter named Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz in Eggers' Prague-shot take on director F.W. Murnau's 1922 horror classic. That film was itself an unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula and was previously remade by Werner Herzog as 1979's Nosferatu the Vampyre.
Although not traditionally regarded as an apotropaic, mirrors have been used to ward off vampires when placed, facing outwards, on a door (in some cultures, vampires do not have a reflection and sometimes do not cast a shadow, perhaps as a manifestation of the vampire's lack of a soul).
It's true: Nosferatu, the German silent classic directed by FW Murnau, was undeniably a Dracula knock-off – an unauthorised adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel with the names changed and the plot whittled down. Among the excised elements was Stoker's polymath-turned-vampire killer Van Helsing.
Count Orlok better known as Nosferatu is a recurring antagonist in the show SpongeBob SquarePants. He is basically Count Orlok in SpongeBob, just a more, comedic version of the character.
Garlic, specifically the chemical compound allicin inside garlic, is a powerful antibiotic. Some European beliefs around vampires stated they were created by a disease of the blood, so a powerful antibiotic would “kill” a vampire.
There is a legend amongst the Hebrew people that tags Judas, betrayer of Christ, as the original vampire. We know from ancient texts that Vampires were present on the Earth prior to Jesus' crucifixion, yet the legend is still quite intriguing. The story can be found within the book of Matthew.
"Absalom is believed to be the patron god of vampires. While no one really knows the specifics of his origins we do, however, know this: he was the first of his kind. The patriarch of Vampires. If you believe in the legends that were around during the Dark Ages, he was said to have been created by the Devil.
The character of Dracula created by Bram Stoker is under public domain. However, specific adaptations of Dracula, such as the Universal version or the Castlevania version, are owned by the people who created him.
These archetypes, each spawned by two early, competing film adaptations of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, re-contextualize Stoker's eponymous villain in entirely divergent ways. Nosferatu, F. W. Murnau's 1922 silent vampire film, begins with a declaration that it is adapted from Stoker's Dracula.
Vlad the Impaler was also known as Vlad III Dracula. The name Dracula means “son of Dracul.” In the Romanian language today, dracul means “the devil”—drac is “devil,” ul is “the”—but it is derived from the Latin dracō, “dragon.” (Dragons have been historically associated with Satan, hence the evolution.)
Mina was portrayed by American actress Winona Ryder in Bram Stoker's Dracula, the 1992 Francis Ford Coppola film adaptation of the book, in which she is believed to be the reincarnation of Dracula's centuries-dead wife, Elisabeta.
If Dracula is in fact Vlad Dracul “the Impaler”, as is suggested by references he makes to his past, then he was born between 1428 and 1431. The book takes place in the 1890s. Let's go with the publication date of 1897 as when it actually happens. That makes Dracula between 469 and 466 years old.
