Nosferatu the Vampyre

Well, I just got the new Steelbook version of Nosferatu in the post and must say, although being smaller than I imagined, the box is rather nice looking, all art in and around the box seems to focus on either Kinski (himself) or Kinski and Adjani.I was rather anxious to see what state the picture would be in when it was fully remastered by Bfi studios, but I must say I'm impressed.Purely speaking from what I've heard of the German Blu-ray which is already out, the picture quality of both the English and German versions on this Blu-ray is indistinguishable. I was worried that, like with the German version, Bfi may only focus on remastering on of the versions but they are both nearly perfectly remastered considering state of the source material. Some scenes are done better than others and at times the picture does look grainy, but compared with the Anchor Bay DVD, the difference is immense and well worth the investment if you really love the film.The sound quality is good for both versions on the mono setting and although it would have been nice to have the English version in 5.1 as well, the difference in sound quality, unless you actually have a surround sound system, isn't that big and is nothing to put you off enjoying both versions of the film.I must say, however, that if you were planning on buying this for the jazzed up booklet which accompanies it, you may be a little disappointed. The essay reads like any introduction to a classic text and isn't the most engaging thing to read, whilst the review of the film I've seen browsing online. Although nothing special, it is a nice little thing to have but booklet is not the name I would give it; I think post-it note (sized) pamphlet would be more suitable.As to the extras the documentary is relatively slow for a short, 13 minute, feature and a lot of the directing from Herzog is in German - as can be expected - but with no subtitles, which makes it an awkward watch for the most part. No remastering has been done for this extra, I might add.All taken into account, I'm personally just happy that a decent, Region B copy of both version's of the film is out there and available to the public. This film is a masterpiece of the time and an affordable Blu-ray version, widely available, has been a long time coming.

For me, this is my favourite vampire film! O k, it's in B/W and is about, 100 years since it was originally made. Atmospheric, but might be scary, for young viewers. Over the decades, there's been hundreds of vampire movies produced, but to me, this is the best version!

Instead of an action-packed, blood&gore laden, shallow, visually unassuming Hollywood-flick, you get an almost sinisterly dark and incredibly beautiful piece of art. Don't watch the English version, it lacks the atmosphere of the German version, probably due to the German actors' inability to cope well with the English language. Everything is more fluent with the German and this translates into better acting overall. If your German isn't fluent, then watch it with the English subtitles on.This movie attempts to capture the deeper currents of the Vampire myth, to get to the heart of the curse that is embodied in Dracula. Klaus Kinski is brilliant as Count Dracula and makes the movie all by himself. Which isn't easy, as the director is obviously set on translating the vampire myth into something as close to believable or "real" as possible.The scenes are long and cumbersome in places, that is true. But this only serves to work the sinister and dark atmosphere into the viewer. If you immerse yourself, then the movie is a thrilling experience.

Please be aware. This is being mis-sold. Advertised as German and English but in fact is ONLY German. Only just got around to watching this and found out. So I wasted my money on this one. Very disappointed not only in Amazon but also by ArtHaus films.

I pre-ordered the steel book release of this title just over a week ago. Amazon delivered to me today (Sunday the 18th of May 2014) a day ahead of release and on a Sunday to boot! Top service!The steel book itself is lovely. The finish on the casing is silver and not white which is how the picture on Amazon's site looks. The reverse is plain.You can always rely on the BFI to revere the titles they put out and they certainly have done justice to Nosferatu The Vampyre.The picture quality is excellent with just the right amount of grain embedded in the image. Both the English and German versions are included with a 5.1 sound bump up for the German soundtrack on the German version.We also get a feature length commentary with the director, Werner Herzog, which is very informative. A short (13 minute) on set documentary follows and also included is the original trailer.As usual BFI have included an informative booklet which is 18 pages long and contains an essay about the film by Laurie Johnson plus a review of the film from 1979 culled from the pages of Sight & Sound magazine.All in all it's a fantastic package of a very under rated film.Highly recommended.

Brilliant

There is an English dubbed audio track and original German audio track. However, there are no English subtitles, so you can't really watch the film without either understanding German or watching it dubbed (which is pretty awful).

Excellent movie 🎬 remake of the silent movie .