Nosferatu - Derivative Works

Derivative Works

• Werner Herzog's 1979 tribute to Nosferatu, Nosferatu the Vampyre starred Klaus Kinski as Count Dracula, not Orlok.

• The 1979 television movie Salem's Lot modeled the appearance of Mr. Barlow on that of Count Orlok.

• The 2000 horror film Shadow of the Vampire, directed by E. Elias Merhige and written by Steven A. Katz is a fictionalised account of the making of Nosferatu. In 1921, director F. W. Murnau (played by John Malkovich) takes his Berlin-based cast and crew on-location to a castle in Slovakia to make a vampire film. There they meet "Max Schreck", who is to play the vampire and who they believe is a character actor who has been living in the castle for some weeks to get into the role. In fact, Murnau has made a deal with a true vampire to act in the film, in order to give the greatest possible degree of realism.

• The song "Waiting for the sun" by Australian rock group The Angels is dedicated to the film.

• On 28 October 2012 BBC Radio 3's Drama on 3 series broadcast The Midnight Cry of the Deathbird, a play by Amanda Dalton freely inspired by the classic silent film Nosferatu for radio and directed by Susan Roberts, but in this version Ellen Hutter is deaf, living in a world of miscommunication and misinformation. In The Midnight Cry of the Deathbird, Ms. Dalton used poetry, prose, song, monologue and dialogue to explore the ways people both talk to and miscommunicate with each other. The cast included Roger Morlidge as Roger the Narrator, Sophie Woolley as Ellen, Valerie Cutko as The Nosferatu, Henry Devas as Thomas Hutter, Conrad Nelson as Dr. Bulwer, Terence Mann as Knock (the Renfield character), Malcolm Raeburn as Count Orlock and Ruth Alexander Rubin as Ruth.