When I meet Willem Dafoe on Zoom to discuss his latest movie Nosferatu, we get on to mortality fast. The four-time ...

Robert Eggers' Nosferatu successfully reinvents the classic vampire for a new generation. How does his version compare to F.W ...

To describe a film about the making of the first vampire movie as 'bats' could never have been more appropriate than with Shadow Of The Vampire. The sort of cinematic folly that film buffs and ...

Well-versed vampire fans are likely to know films like Daybreakers and Shadow of the Vampire, but casual moviegoers often miss these films. The 1980s are still considered the heyday of the slasher ...

With Robert Eggers' version in theatres, we look at the small but distinguished cinematic legacy of ‘Nosferatu’ ...

A hundred years after terrorising its first hapless victims, F.W. Murnau’s rebellious expressionist fever dream refuses to ...

However, while Van Helsing is typically depicted as a doctor carrying a crucifix to ward off the vampire, Von Franz will take a different approach, delving into more occult practices such as rituals.

Shadow of the Vampire was shot in Luxembourg. According to the production notes, this was because the Grand Duchy 'claims to have more castle (sic) per square inch than any other country'.

He spent six hours a day in the prosthetics make-up chair to morph into a reclusive scientist in Poor Things, and he has even been a version of a vampire himself, in Shadow of the Vampire.