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Nosferatu, the first cinematic representation of Dracula, 1922
Nosferatu was the first of over 200 film adaptations of Bran Stoker's Dracula. It was in 1922 when the romanticism fell away and Max Schreck played this grotesque creature of the night. In Nosferatu, Dracula is a more demonic creature than a human possessed by a demonic entity (as most vampires are portrayed). While the film is based on Stoker's book, Schreck's performance lacked the sexuality and flamboyance of the many other portrayals over the years (in a very good way). Without his creepy, animalistic take on Count Orlok's character, "Nosferatu" would not have become the chilling and highly influential silent film that it is today.
