10 Underseen Vampire Movies To Fill The True Blood Hole In Your Life

5. Nosferatu The Vampyre

Legendary filmmaker and eminent weirdo Werner Herzog's 1979 remake of Nosferatu is one of the most effective in history, sitting at a level only reserved for the likes of John Carpenter's The Thing and the 1970s Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The German director didn't necessarily consider his film a remake, comparing his treatment of the vampire myth akin to Dreyer and Bresson both making films about Joan of Arc, and luckily Herzog's version turned out terrifyingly well. Regular Herzog star Klaus Kinski is almost unrecognisable as the inimitable Count Orlock, and the terror that Murnau struck in his original film is adeptly replicated, even bettered by the efforts of Herzog and his crew, who incorporate new elements into the old story despite recreating some scenes almost shot-for-shot, a feat that few remakes can accomplish successfully.