“[T]he best movie vampire since Schreck's original…deserves a bloody Oscar”

- Jay Carr

“[T]eeters weakly for most of its running time, in dire need of an injection of ideas that will lift it beyond the realm of film-geek cleverness”

- Ernest Hardy

Shadow of the Vampire

This vampire tale asks what might have happened if original Dracula ("Nosferatu") director F.W. Murnau had cast a real vampire (instead of actor Max Schreck) without telling anyone in the production. Cary Elwes, Eddie Izzard, John Malkovich, Udo Kier, Willem Dafoe. Director: E. Elias Merhige (2001, R)