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www.eonline.com - : In this Goth-goofy take, director E. Elias Merhige really revamps cinematic history when he envisions what it was like on the set of F.W. Murnau's 1922 horror classic, Nosferatu. Here, the legendary Murnau (an eccentric John Malkovich, natch) makes a Faustian deal with the devil--or in this case a vampire--and employs real bloodsucker Willem Dafoe as the lead. In return for an authentic performance, the snarling fiend (and on-camera ham) is promised the leading lady's neck. But can he hold back his bloodlust until the final scene? Dafoe sinks his teeth into this tour-de-force performance--his vamp camp is worthy of an Oscar. And he's a great menace for the determined Malkovich. But the flick moves at the pace of, well, a slow horror film. Still, the cast (undead or otherwise) keeps it livelier than most. more...
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