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F.W. Murnau

Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Shadow Of The Vampire’ – The ‘Real’ Story Of The Making Of A Horror Classic

January 4, 2018 by James Jay Edwards

In the years after the writer’s passing, Bram Stoker’s estate was very protective of his intellectual property.  So, in 1922, when German expressionist filmmaker F.W. Murnau was denied the rights to do an adaptation of Dracula, he did one anyway – but he had to change the name of his lead character from Count Dracula […]

Filed Under: Cinema Fearité Tagged With: E. Elias Merhige, F.W. Murnau, John Malkovich, Lou Bogue, Max Schreck, Nicolas Cage, Nosferatu, Shadow of the Vampire, Steven Katz, Willem DaFoe

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