History YMMV / Nosferatu

** The remake attempts to subvert this categorization by conveying a sense of pathos regarding Dracula's condition as one consigned to a predatory existence, doomed to be despised by those he wants to love and, absent that, to destroy those who return his affection.

* CompleteMonster: [[LooksLikeOrlok Count Orlok]], the eponymous "Nosferatu," is one of the earliest examples of vampires in cinema in the film and one of the most terrifying. When Thomas Hutter arrives in the Transylvanian Carpathian Mountains, the locals speak Orlok's name in hushed whispers and don't dare to venture out at dark. Upon meeting Orlok, Hutter is attacked and the count tries to feed from him fatally before being repulsed. Hutter witnesses Orlok loading up several coffins to be transported across the sea, and Orlok later kills the crew of the schooner transporting him. The other coffins are revealed to also contain plague-bearing rats, and Orlok's arrival spreads a deathly plague all over Europe. He uses the plague as cover to feed on the people of Hutter's home village of Wisborg without suspicion before Hutter's innocent wife Ellen catches his eye. Orlok attacks Ellen, draining her to death in her HeroicSacrifice to keep him distracted before the sun rises to destroy him. Orlok had spawned a legion of imitators and while later vampires were portrayed as sophisticated, urbane and charming, Orlok is nothing more than a cunning, evil and ravenous beast that can barely pass as a human being.

* CompleteMonster: [[LooksLikeOrlok Count Orlok]], AKA "Nosferatu," is one of the earliest examples of vampires in cinema in the film and one of the most terrifying. When Thomas Hutter arrives in the Transylvanian Carpathian Mountains, the locals speak Orlok's name in hushed whispers and don't dare to venture out at dark. Upon meeting Orlok, Hutter is attacked and the count tries to feed from him fatally before being repulsed. Hutter witnesses Orlok loading up several coffins to be transported across the sea, and Orlok later kills the crew of the schooner transporting him. The other coffins are revealed to also contain plague-bearing rats, and Orlok's arrival spreads a deathly plague all over Europe. He uses the plague as cover to feed on the people of Hutter's home village of Wisborg without suspicion before Hutter's innocent wife Ellen catches his eye. Orlok attacks Ellen, draining her to death in her HeroicSacrifice to keep him distracted before the sun rises to destroy him. Orlok had spawned a legion of imitators and while later vampires were portrayed as sophisticated, urbane and charming, Orlok is nothing more than a cunning, evil and ravenous beast that can barely pass as a human being.

* CompleteMonster: Count Orlok, TropeNamer of LooksLikeOrlok is one of the earliest examples of vampires in cinema and one of the most terrifying. When Thomas Hutter arrives in the Transylvanian Carpathian mountains, the locals speak Orlok's name in hushed whispers and don't dare to venture out at dark. Upon meeting Orlok, Hutter is attacked and the count makes an attempt to feed from him fatally before being repulsed. Hutter witnesses Orlok loading up several coffins to be transported across the sea, and later murders the entire crew of the schooner transporting him. The other coffins are revealed to also contain plague bearing rats, and Orlok's arrival spreads a deathly plague all over Europe. he uses the plague as cover to feed on the people of Hutter's home village of Wisborg without suspicion before Hutter's innocent wife Elllen catches his eye. Orlok attacks Ellen, draining her to death in her HeroicSacrifice to keep him distracted before the sun rises to destroy him. Orlok had spawned a legion of imitators and while later vampires were portrayed as sophisticated, urbane and charming, Orlok is nothing more than a cunning, evil and ravenous beast who can barely pass as a human being.

* NightmareRetardant: in the opening scenes the villagers claim a werewolf roams thru the forest at night. The atmosphere is really creepy and the audience wonders what this creature will look like. When the protagonist goes to sleep the camera shows a wolflike creature walking in the forest, but it's clearly not a werewolf, left alone a wolf, but a striped hyena! And it's strange to downright ridiculous that this animal walks around in Transylvania, Romania.
** It could have escaped from a zoo or circus. It's happened before.
** It's possible that a hyena was deliberately chosen so the werewolf wasn't just a normal wolf.
*** May qualify as retroactive FridgeBrilliance, as one theory for the identity of the Beast of Gevaudan--one of the most famous historical cases of a supposed werewolf--is a hyena.

* CompleteMonster: Count Orlok, TropeNamer of LooksLikeOrlok is one of the earliest examples of vampires in cinema in the film ''{{Film/Nosferatu}}'' and one of the most terrifying. When Thomas Hutter arrives in the Transylvanian Carpathian mountains, the locals speak Orlok's name in hushed whispers and don't dare to venture out at dark. Upon meeting Orlok, Hutter is attacked and the count makes an attempt to feed from him fatally before being repulsed. Hutter witnesses Orlok loading up several coffins to be transported across the sea, and later murders the entire crew of the schooner transporting him. The other coffins are revealed to also contain plague bearing rats, and Orlok's arrival spreads a deathly plague all over Europe. he uses the plague as cover to feed on the people of Hutter's home village of Wisborg without suspicion before Hutter's innocent wife Elllen catches his eye. Orlok attacks Ellen, draining her to death in her HeroicSacrifice to keep him distracted before the sun rises to destroy him. Orlok had spawned a legion of imitators and while later vampires were portrayed as sophisticated, urbane and charming, Orlok is nothing more than a cunning, evil and ravenous beast who can barely pass as a human being.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Hutter tells his wife that he is heading to "the country of thieves and ghosts" - and he seems [[MoodDissonance awfully excited about it too]]!
* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: One scene has Orlock loading up a horse-drawn cart with coffins and then he gets inside one at the top of the coffin stack. Watch as the lid of the coffin moves up to Orlock's coffin (via stop-motion photography) - the horses change position a couple of times. It doesn't qualify as a {{Special Effects Failure}} given the film was made in the early days of cinema.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Count Orlok is shown loading his coffins onto a horse-drawn wagon by himself (whereas Count Dracula had hired gypsies doing this in the book and [[BramStokersDracula the 1992 film]]). He's even shown carrying his coffin to his new home later on.
* SoundtrackDissonance: Some versions of the film feature a near-constant usage of a strange, cheerful little tune that sounds more like it would belong in an old Mickey Mouse cartoon than a classic horror movie. It becomes increasingly hard to get into the mood of the film when this song is in nearly every other scene, even in perfectly innocuous ones, such as the simple act of walking up stairs.

* NightmareFuel: For something nearly a hundred years old, this film has aged surprisingly well, especially in regards to Max Schreck's performance as Count Orlock.

* CompleteMonster: Orlock.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: For something nearly a hundred years old, this film has aged surprisingly well, especially in regards to Max Schreck's performance as Count Orlock.

* NightmareRetardant: in the opening scenes the villagers claim a werewolf roams thru the forest at night. The atmosphere is really creepy and the audience wonders what this creature will look like. When the protagonist goes to sleep the camera shows a wolflike creature walking in the forest, but it's clearly not a werewolf, left alone a wolf, but a striped hyena! And it's strange to downright ridiculous that this animal walks around in Transylvania, Romania.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: For something nearly a hundred years old, this film has aged surprisingly well.

* SoundtrackDissonance: Some versions of the film feature a near-constant usage of a strange, cheerful little tune that sounds more like it would belong in an old Mickey Mouse cartoon than a classic horror movie. It becomes increasingly hard to get into the mood of the film when this song is in nearly every other scene, even in perfectly innocuous ones, such as the simple act of walking up stairs.