Line #3 NightmareFuel/Nosferatu


1	For a movie that's over a hundred years old, this film has aged surprisingly well, especially in regards to Max Schreck's performance as Count Orlok.
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5	!From the 1922 film
6	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nosferatushadow.jpg]]
7	[[caption-width-right:350: ''He is coming...'']]
8	* Orlock's appearance in general. He's a creepy, [[LeanAndMean rail thin]], bald, rat looking man with CreepyLongFingers.
9	* A famous scene: Hutter opens his chamber door and sees Orlok standing, dead eyed at the other end of the hall. He closes the door in fear, and finding no way to bar it, cowers in his bed. The door opens seemingly of its own accord, before Orlok emerges from the darkness, and stiffly walks into the room.
10	* The scene where Orlok is peering from behind the window of his house. It still has a scary feel to it and inspired countless similar scenes in {{horror}} films ever since.
11	* The crawling shadow of Orlok? [[OnceOriginalNowCommon Copied to death]]. The one that started it all? ''Still terrifying''.
12	* The massacre on the ship, where Orlock slowly destroys each crew member before sliding into the port. Culminating in the moment where Orlock rises from his coffin to finish off the last crew member. He doesn't climb out, he ''levitates ninety degrees to a standing position'' without moving a muscle. It's very surreal and ''very'' creepy.
13	** For that matter Orlock appears to the first sailor by seemingly becoming un-transparent, staring at him all the while.
14	* Orlok's creepy, desolate castle in the middle of the Transylvanian countryside. The outer gate opens and closes on its own, and you can tell there is nothing alive in that cursed place...nothing at all.
15	* When Orlok first appears in the courtyard to meet Hutter, he appears in a distance shot, and due to the low resolution of the film, it makes his face look even creepier, because all you can see of his facial features are three tiny pinpricks.
16	* Orlok's disturbing behavior during the dinner scene. He just stares at poor Hutter, and when Hutter accidentally cuts himself, has to keep himself from drinking his blood. You can tell that Hutter is regretting the journey, and even if he doesn't know that Orlok is a vampire, he might be some sort of deranged madman.
17	* An especially terrifying shot is when Ellen looks out her window across the street at Orlock's house. In a dark window off to the side there is a tiny white dot. Orlock is always watching her.
18	* The scenes where crowds and crowds of rats follow Nosferatu wherever he goes, paying homage to the ancient idea that the plague is brought by demonic spirits.
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20	!From the SNES video game
21	* The bad ending. Should the player die at least eight times before finishing the game, Nosferatu will bite Erin before Kyle reaches either. After defeating the vampire, Kyle reunites with her as he normally would, but is bit by her as they embrace, accompanied by bleak text. Then the Game Over music [[JumpScare suddenly blasts out]] of nowhere.
22	* The game over screen, which shows a monochrome photograph of Kyle and Erin, happy together, also shows how many continue the player has left on the Japanese version. This in itself is pretty tame, however, if you die at least eight times, the photograph slightly alters, showing Erin with fangs and a more distorted brow, to signal the inevitability of the bad ending.
23	** If you choose not to continue in less than eight tries, you get a short scene with Nosferatu preparing to bite Erin and make her his as dramatic fanfare plays in the background. Simple, but effective.

Context NightmareFuel / Nosferatu