Friday, May 29, 2009

'Nosferatu'

Earlier this week, I wrote about the film "Pink Flamingos."

Let me tell you something, I'll take "Nosferatu" one billion times over "Pink Flamingos."

It was 50 years before in the infancy of film making, but it is 175 times better. Everything from the acting to the production to the story to the execution to the flippin' credits.

And "Nosferatu" probably isn't anywhere near close to the top 10 movies I've seen off this list. If it's 175 times better, does "Pink Flamingos" belong?

One interesting note about "Nosferatu" is the apparent theft of the story from Bram Stoker, but then they changed all the names and places and it was OK. Then the American version comes out and they include the original Stoker names into the rolling dialogue screens. So the movie's called "Nosferatu" but the character in the American version is good ol' Count Dracula.

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