All content - video, sound & music created by me: Preacher John (c) 2012 for / licenced to www.alwaysaround.net http AA Horror Season: Shadow of the Vampire Probably the best "making of" film, ever. Germany 1922: Flaky obsessive Friedrich Murnau is so consumed with directing the perfect vampire movie, that he secretly hires an actual vampire - Max Schreck - to star in "Nosferatu". As far as the rest of the cast are concerned Schreck is just a really, really dedicated method actor, who seems to be tapping a rich vein of inspiration. How far would you go for your art? Would you sell your body? Your soul? How about other people's bodies? This is a movie about two monsters, each consumed by their own hunger - Friedrich Murnau is obsessed with creating the perfect vampire film and will go to any lengths to acheive it. The star of his movie - Max Schreck / "Count Orlock" is an actual vampire, and his hungers are more straightforwardly terrifying. Shadow of the Vampire is an overlo! oked movie gem, with stand-out performances by John Malkovich as the highly-strung Murnau (Dangerous Liasons, Con Air, Burn After Reading) and Willem Dafoe (Spiderman, Daybreakers, Once upon a Time in Mexico) is so good as the grumbling, slavering Schreck / Orlock that he was rightfully nominated for an Oscar, despite being buried under layers of makeup for the entire movie. Unlike the glamorous latter-day film vampires Orlock is utterly repulsive; a bald, hunched and clawed figure, eternally old
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