None of this stopped the Stoker estate from suing and demanding the destruction of all prints. Fortunately, some survived. That was more than 100 years ago. Since then, “Nosferatu” has ...

Luckily, a few prints survived, including just one in the United States. Since Dracula was not subject to copyright protections in the U.S., Nosferatu ... Republic into art which reflected these ...

Nosferatu thus comes off more like a technical exercise than a film with a concrete artistic statement behind it. As technical exercises go, it’s an intriguing one, but the utility of technical ...

Stories of blood-sucking demons predate modern sensibilities, of course, but it was Bram Stoker’s Dracula that inspired how we think of vampires more than any other work of literature or art.