Is this supposed to be good? It's kind of messy, kind of shitty...

Is this supposed to be good? It's kind of messy, kind of shitty. Do people just praise mediocre older films for the fuck of it?

That's Nosferatu.

Most praise of older movies have to take into account the year it was released.
Like Welles shit. Citizen Kane is underwhelming to some because it pioneered a lot and people are used to it in this medium now.

i think van helsing is in it tho

Are you talking about the original or the 1979 remake?

It wasn't Stoker it was his widow. In fact the whole thing soured her so much on filmmakers that when Universal wanted to get the rights to make Dracula that Lugosi himself had to personally had to meet with her and charm her in order to secure the rights.

The remake by Herzog

So you're a 70s movie babby who doesn't even watch classic kino

GTFO underages and stop posting movies from your childhood

what is all this projection, I've been watching some Herzog and this was meh, hes meh compared to Zulawski. I liked Aguirre Wrath of God though

So is Dracula, Herzog version keeps the original names, you're responding to a dumb poster who is gay.

This works on 2 levels:
1. It's a complete talking remake of the 1922 F.W. Murnau-version.
2. Instead of the title character being an allegory of death and decay, this film focuses on the pain that immortality inflicts on the vampire. I guess this aspect was pretty new-ish when it was released