Films

Jonathan Harker travels to the castle of the enigmatic Count Dracula in Transylvania to assist him with the purchase of a new property. However, unbeknownst to him, his visit triggers an epidemic of terror in his hometown, Wismar, where his wife, Lucy, awaits him. In 1979, Werner Herzog revisited Bram Stoker’s novel and Murnau’s timeless classic—a masterpiece of German Expressionism—to transform the vampire myth into a melancholic meditation on loneliness, death, and desire. A work that is as much poetic and existentialist as it is Gothic horror, where images of hypnotic beauty and a contemplative pace portray the vampire not so much as a monster, but as a creature condemned to eternity and imprisoned by his own nature.