![]() ![]() This year, Waxwork Records has rereleased Nosferatu in a deluxe vinyl format. The soundtrack album was released in 1978 and then again in 2004 with a revised (and expanded) track listing. Years after that troublesome copyright expired, the new Nosferatu reclaimed the textual names (including “Count Dracula”) and starred Isabelle Adjani and Klaus Kinski, with music by German electronic avant-garde band Popol Vuh. Luckily, five prints survived, and Nosferatu became a renowned classic that influenced generations of filmmakers including German director Werner Herzog, who remade the film in 1979 as Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht. We know it today as Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, because the novel Dracula was still under copyright, thus they named the film after the other name Stoker popularized, and changed the character’s name to “Count Orlok.” Stoker’s widow still sued and ordered all prints destroyed. Featuring Max Schreck, that movie became almost as influential as its source material. So popular was Dracula that early experimental motion picture director F.W. Dracula redefined and invigorated the vampire story to the point that just about every vampire in every medium owes at least a bit of a debt to the novel. Let’s start back in 1897 with the publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (because going all the way back to historical accounts of “Vlad the Impaler” would result in an article far too long for this site). In fact, the entire thing goes back farther than you might realize. A lot of historical baggage goes along with Waxwork Records’ latest (re)release, Nosferatu the Vampyre. ![]()
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