10 Best Horror Movie Remakes Of All Time

The original Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror is a classic of the German Expressionism movement. Even as it is nearly a hundred years old, its influence continues to be felt in modern cinema and pop culture. So remaking it was always going to be a bit of risk, but it's the exact kind of challenge a madman like Werner Herzog would happily take on.

Herzog's version is a love-letter to the original film, which he felt to be the finest to have ever come out of Germany. And while Herzog goes to great lengths to preserve the material of the original, even recreating shots beat for beat, his film has an entirely different feel than Murnau's original. Whereas the original sped through the set-up to get to the meat of the story and then continued to move along at a fairly brisk pace for the entirety of its runtime, Herzog basks in the lethargic for his version.

Even down to the singular shots themselves, Herzog makes time a crucial factor in the movie. Becuase just as Dracula is doomed to live for all eternity, Herzog makes audiences feel the slow-moving passage of time with his excessive long-takes. He forces viewers to live in the moment with Dracula, and the film is all the more poignant because of it.