“The first, and still perhaps the finest, film version of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' Nosferatu is in many ways the archetype of the horror genre in its extremely sophisticated awareness of the signficance of the ‘monster.' Here, the vampire is clearly the embodiment of the forces that civilization represses, and the film can be read as an account of the appalling cost of that repression. It also works some fascinating variations on the narrative structure of the original novel.” --Robin Wood