'Nosferatu: The Vampyre'

Not as good as F.W. Murnau's 1922 film, but still pretty good. Good in that it was made 50 years afterward and that filmmaking had become a quite bit more artistic.

I come back to the courtyard of the city in Werner Herzog's film. In about a half dozen shots, the courtyard is presented in this wide angle shot. Some with people marching and other time with people rejoicing that the "plague" is over. It's a beautiful red brick. Nothing fancy. But Herzog was pretty much in love with it for as much as he used it.

The Dracula myth is an appealing one in pop culture from the 1922 film through this one. Of course, it was always based on Bram Stoker's Dracula even up to Francis Ford Coppola's film.

Then a new generation took over and now we have Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Twilight series, all new stories divorced from the Dracula myth. However, the lesson is still the same: Love, desire and the inability to have neither.

Twilight's story is no different from Nosferatu or Bram Stoker's first imagining. Just newer, hokier.