So I just watched Nosferatu and wow, what an amazing movie. Genuinely creepy and horrifying today, it is also aesthetically a beautiful movie. The tinted colors, the iris shots, the warm flickering of the image, it all comes together to give this movie real soul.
Great shot looking out a window to the house that the unwitting protagonist will sell
to Count Orlok (Nosferatu). Creepy and sets up later conflict.
Hutter meets Count Orlok. Notice the halo formed by the arch around Hutter while
Orlok is framed by complete black.
Count Orlok visits Hutter by telekinetically opening the door. Wonderfully creepy
lighting and acting. Notice how the door frames him like a coffin. The iris in gives this
a nightmarish feel and further demonstrates Nosferatu's power.
More creepy coffin framing on Orlok.
"Oh, two mosquito bites." No Hutter, no.
Nosferatu emerges from his coffin in the cargo hold after driving the crew mad/killing
them with plague to finish off the captain. The extreme angle shot against the rigging
of the "deathship" serves to illustrate Orloks power. Throughout his voyage to his new
home there are great tight shots of rigging and sails as they pass through the camera
view or the bow as it rises and falls.
Hutters wife Ellen is drawn by the approaching Orlok. The composition here is so
fantastic. The inclusion of the crosses (I don't even know what they're for) leads the
eye through the shot and gives it a nice visual pattern. They also contrast the unholy
power of Nosferatu and almost imply a cemetery.
I love this shot. The color, the pattern of the bricks, the shadow, the iris, all of it.
Right now this drummer is heralding the coming of the plague to the citizens as they
look down at him from their windows.
Supernatural power afoot.
I wonder what direction on this shot was like? Also, I want a mustache like that.
More crazy Germans.
That's what she said.
But seriously, this is a must watch movie. So scary, so beautiful. There's a ton more to see too, I've only put up half of my favorites.
