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Marco Castellini
•Germany 1921: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau is filming "Nosferatu the Vampire", the first vampire film in history. The director is determined to make the film as realistic as possible, so he has hired a real vampire, Max Schreck, without however foreseeing the consequences… "Shadow of the Vampire" is not a true horror film but rather a film that tells us, in a wholly fanciful and romanticized way, the story of the creation of that horror masterpiece that is "Nosferatu" of 1922. Produced by Nicolas Cage and starring two excellent and charismatic actors like John Malkovich (as Murnau) and Willem Dafoe (as Count Shreck), the film is stylistically remarkable but a bit cloying and precious. Oscar-worthy is Dafoe's perfect performance. Suitable for an "engaged" audience.
