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Crazy that one of the earliest and most iconic horror movies ever, is essentially an indie knock-off of Dracula. And that it was nearly destroyed and lost forever because of it.
A lot of things you'd think were saved have been lost. Like the Disney channel drawing segments(im ____ and this is disney channel), early doctor who, the high quality original moon landing footage
@@jeremyscungio16 Heck even stuff from the 70's-90's pre-digital era don't look how they looked when they first came out. TV especially. For instance Most 70's and 80's sitcom's weren't actually drab, brown and as blurry as we see them today in repeats. They simply degraded over time before anyone could digitize them and most studios won't spend the money to restore them (honestly, these days I'd rather they didn't since they'd just chuck in an AI which would obliterate them). Dragon ball/DBZ has to be one of the more famous examples of something that's absolutely huge but no one has seen what that show was supposed to look like through official channels since it first aired in Japan. The colors in almost every official release have a green tint (or a horrible slapdash resto job) that is not intended but an artifact of degradation because of how the prints were stored.
My great grandfather was born in 1911. He was 11 years old when this movie released in 1922. He remembered seeing a screening of this movie in South Africa in the 1920s when he was 11 or 12, and it scared the everliving sh*t out of him. Flash forward to 2002, and a 4 year old me was taken to visit my 91 year old great grandfather in the retirement home in San Diego. I would watch cartoons on the TV as I'd sit by his feet. At that point he just kind of sat there. The Hash Slinging Slasher episode came on, and when Nosferatu showed up my great grandfather screamed "AHHHH NOT HIM!" Amazing he saw the movie's "premiere" AND lived to see the Spongebob episode too. I miss you great grandpa Mick. He taught me how to tie my shoes when I was 7. He died in 2006 when I was 8.
The fact that the first major horror movie villain of all time was played by a guy named Shrek (albeit with a different spelling) will never not be hilarious.
It's not just a piece of iconic film history, this is vampire history. As noted, Dracula didn't die from sunlight in the book. The idea that sunlight kills them was first shown here.
This Kill Count is one of my new favorites. It's got the best of everything I love about this show. The behind-the-scenes info tying real-life historical fear of a plague into Count Orlok's rat-like appearance; the top-tier wordplay with characters' names; the stupid editing gags like Hutter throwing the book on the ground... Absolutely perfect.
1:33 i think the funny thing about Noseferatu in SpongeBob is not only the fact that this even happened completely out of nowhere, but the characters just seem so nonchalant about Noseferatu being at the Krusty Krab let alone underwater, and everyone’s just like “oh you” I find that very hilarious
The funniest part for me is that the 2024 movie likely wouldn’t even exist without SpongeBob bc a lot of the modern knowledge of the characterfrom millennials and zoomers comes directly from SpongeBob lmao
It was so random to me when I saw it as a child that I couldn't even find it scary I was just so baffled by what I was looking at. What prompted Hillenburg to put him in the show?
Crazy thing is when I first saw him, I was either waking up from a nap, or falling asleep. I saw that on the TV, and literally felt my blood pressure drop😭🤣
Love it, keep covering these classic films James! The history behind them is so interesting. This is the only silent film ever covered on the channel, right?
Nosferatu might be my favourite silent film. It kinda blew me away, for a movie that is 102 years old it is incredibly well made and creepy. Thank goodness for the public domain so that everyone can see this masterpiece
Yeah I saw a screening for the 100th anniversary where an orchestra played music for it like they would back in the day with old silent films. It really adds a lot.
I like how Dead Meat is covering classic horror films. Hopefully he covers the Bride of Frankenstein soon to follow up his Frankenstein video since it is often considered one of the best Universal Monsters films of the classic era.
This movie is so old, the older dude at 04:52 was probably born before germany was a thing. He might even be born before electric light was a thing. Crazy to see so such olden people move and act.
Fun fact SpongeBob writer Jay Lender knew the name of Count Orlok but wrote his name as Nosferatu in the show because he said it sounded better and was more recognizable. To this day he still gets messages of people correcting him for calling count Orlok "Nosferatu" even though he already knows.
This Kill Count is one of my new favourites. It contains the best of everything I enjoy about this show. Behind-the-scenes information linking real-life historical dread of a plague to Count Orlok's rat-like appearance; top-tier wordplay with character names; idiotic editing gags like Hutter throwing the book on the ground... Absolutely perfect.
I remember this episode as a little kid known The Graveyard Ship as a representment for Nosferatu That's today standards right there for those who remember on media future years to come
It's amazing to think this film is over 100 years old now. I'm so glad James is covering this iconic piece of horror history, not to mention one of SpongeBob's best jokes.
One thing that I find fascinating about this movie is that we can't ask anyone involved in the film for trivia or behind the scenes facts because every single person in front of the camera and behind it are long gone (the last member of the cast and crew, Loni Nest - who played the girl at 15:40 - died in 1990). We'll never know what happened behind the camera or what it was like making the film that isn't already written down, and I find that almost spookier than the film itself.
Hello James! A transylvanian here! I can confirm Nosferatu is not a romanian word. We call vampires Vampiri or Strigoi (Strigoi are actually what would inspire the vampires and Nosferatu himself due to their legend). However, I believe Nosferatu is a misunderstood word. Elders used to call the devil "Necuratu," (Necuratul means the Unclean one because yknow hes evil and shit) So it was probably that word, used to describe Strigoi as devils, misunderstood by a foreigner
Fun fact: The actor whos playing the Count is called Max Schreck. Schreck means scare. Like the german word for to scare someone is ,,erschrecken". I like that.
Just rewatched this the other night to prep for the remake. We were baffled by the decision to have Orlok travel to Germany by boat from Transylvania. He could have traveled by land and it would've been 800 miles. I plugged his ship route into Google Earth and found if he took a ship from the Black Sea, into the Mediterranean then around the western end of Europe up to the northern coast of Germany, his route would have been close to 5500 miles. My girlfriend was laughing so hard at me figuring this all out and then the movie just writes off the decision by saying Orlok just made the ship go faster.
Yeah but something people should also always be reminded of is the lack of certain routes we got today and they not exisiting back then. Most of the tunnels through mountains we got today that are shortening travel by days haven't existed back then. Mostly because this even isn't in their current timeline but even than past. So as a lot of guys already have heard - It's not the length but the way you handle it. :P
In the book "Dracula", he chooses to travel by boat to avoid customs officers (the people that inspect boxes and things transported from one place to another yk?) he might find on the road
Fun fact: I watched a clip of Nosferatu a few months ago purely to find out where the funny SpongeBob reference came from and to laugh at how silly horror used to be, and then was so genuinely disturbed by how it actually scared me that I immediately watched the whole thing until like 2 am 😅
Love the fact Willem Dafoe starred as Max Schreck in 2000's Shadow of the Vampire and now is the professor in Robert Eggers's Nosferatu. The guy is magnificient
Fantasia stole a lot of this for Night on Bald Mountain. The shadow over the town, Chernabog's weakness being the sun, even the way he looks and moves is very Nosferatu (and for an even weirder Dracula connection, they originally had Bela Lugosi doing the live action movement for him).
Also, considering your coverage of this film, i'd be so damn happy if you'd do a "the cabinet of dr. Caligari" kill count, maybe even have a cesare-esque costume for it, and let's not mention this film's influence in pop culture, everything from tim burton's landscape being inspired by that film and nosferatu, all the way up to chris fleming being the voice actor for a version of cesare in the webseries "bigtop burger"
Another fun fact is that the actor who played cesare "conrad veidt" would later on play an antagonist in "casablanca". "The cabinet of dr. Caligari" is also the earliest surviving example of a mindfuck and plot twist in a movie
That’s EXACTLY how I feel about it! Watching Nosferatu is like time traveling! It is both eerie and beautiful as you realize that every one of the people you are watching are no longer alive! The entire film is silent, of course, except for the orchestra which Conducts your emotions down forbidden paths. After a while of listening to the sweeping music, it has an almost hypnotic effect on the audience, which I think serves the movie well. Don’t you dare relax though! One time I was starting to get cozy, and a little sleepy (the music had lulled me into a false sense of security) that is when Count Orlok appeared out of freaking no where and made me jump out of my skin!! My heart was racing! Which I did NOT expect. There is not a single jump-scare which is refreshing. Instead, Nosferatu deals in the lost art of subtlety and preys on your imagination. A testament to its timelessness and why people still watch it over a century later.
I’ve been with this channel since the start and I never thought we’d be getting silent classics like nosferatu and one kill wonders like creep ever let alone back to back😭
I don't know if it's just me being weird, but I find it very intriguing that Nosferatu came out just about ten years after the Titanic had sunk - almost 25 after the end of the Spanish-American war - 4 years after the end of World War I, and at least 6-7 years before the Stock Market Crash of 1929... and a solid decade before the start of World War II. This film is just absolutely nestled in between some of the world's most important events & or conflicts.
Since we are talking about century-old horror movies, i feel compelled to spread the word about "Haxan" which aged extremely well and still hold up to this day (lots of off-screen torture and sex, possibly the first body horror scene, a good scenario, etc...).
Imagine making a film that flopped, and then find out the widow of the inspiration was so pissed she ordered all of its manuscripts be destroyed. She went for blood!!
Literally, Howard Hughes did this with The Conqueror. Hughes was so behind the picture but then he watched it and tried to have it destroyed. The Conqueror is often considered one of the worst films ever made. edit- for clarification to align more with your comment. Hughes was really behind the picture but not directly involved. But without his influence it might not have been made. However the final picture literally took him to the brink of insanity.
Does anyone know why at 0:35 they give credit to Dracula/bram stoker? If they were changing everything to avoid copyright trouble - then why would they just legally admit their own IP infringement like that in the opening credits - ??!
@@justinklenk It seems they did this because the original intent behind the various changes was not done to avoid copyright troubles but to make a film that was very German. So they were very much adapting Dracula, and legally had to state it but just wanted a different depiction then that of the book. I initially thought it was an add on years after the the movie was released and rediscovered to 100% credit Stoker but nope. They credited him from the start.
Definitely enjjoying the variety of the Kill Counts this year, James. From the down right bad ("Mouse Trap") to the really old that I personally probably won't watch ("Nosferatu"), it's definitely a banner year for the channel. And as of this comment, 6.66m subscribers is well earned.
I think its pretty funny that people still call Count Orlok Nosferatu. Kinda like how people still call Frankenstein's monster Frankenstein even though in the book it never has a name
My biggest flex is that I live in one of the towns where Nosferatu was filmed. It's fun to recognise some places and how they changed (or didn't) in 100 years
I’ve been a fan of this channel for a while, but I learned so much about this movie and the way it affected the genre! I’d love to see more episodes along this line!
Oh, Nosferatu! Memes aside these old films to me are actually insanely creepy from the combo of how they look and having no sound outside of the haunting score.
Nosferatu is a fantastic film and I love German expressionism! I really hope that you do look at The Cabinet of Dr Caligari one day as it's one of my favourite films.
I just studied this film in class! Max Schreck was a prolific German horror actor who actually was one of the first actors to use makeup and practical effects on screen. In order to disfigure his face for this movie, he used ultra-thin wires to stretch different parts of his face out of proportion. The wires he used actually ended up cutting him on multiple occasions and they would have to pause filming because of how much he bled. They also pioneered techniques such as speed-ramping, the use of shadows on screen, and some more broad ideas on color theory. I think this has to be my favorite silent movie of all time
@@SnuggieMaple The animation is nausea-inducing. It's fast paced, loud, and obnoxious. Believe me, I have tried to watch it. It feels like a parody of its old, slower self.
My favorite detail many miss about silent movies like this one is that they often had an orchestra playing music for them. In the movies 100th year anniversary I watched a screening of the movie with a live orchestra and it added a LOT. Certain movies had even had certain music associated with them, and for this one the band used copies of some of the original music for this movie which was fantastic.
He's FINALLY covering this movie, I never actually thought that he would, ( not that I'm complaining) I love it when james does the black and white movies, it just goes to show how far horror movies have come over the years 😊😊😊😊
I watched a lot of silent films for film school, and like James points out they’re often hard to relate to or enjoy. But Nosferatu was always the one that actually really impressed me, especially with how genuinely creepy it can be. Huge piece of history and super fun to see on the Kill Count.
I LOVE that you reviewed the 1922 Nosferatu!! PLEEEEZE, review the Cabinet of Dr Caligari - that would be so great for us fans of both old vampire movies & old B&W horror movies. FYI, I'm also a big fan of how Dead Meat has evolved.
I love the theory the Twilight vampires are actually some species of fae - more than one drinks blood - and whoever turned the dad told him they were vampires because he knew he would be too dense to understand fae lore.
Had the luxury of getting to watch this film in my horror cinema class and it was definitely an experience to watch it in a theater setting and learning its history. Thank you so much James and the Dead Meat crew for covering it!
The two best toys/figures of Orlok are: Silent Screamers (1999-ish) - highly stylized, really crazy design that comes with part of the sanitarium (Knock also had a figure) NECA Toys (2024) - just climbed out of the screen. Even comes with the letter he sent Knock.
@@ashleightompkins3200I saw it in a tiny art house theater in 1979, and even then people gasped at the reveal, but more in a jump scare kind of way. Things just hit differently on the big screen.
Thank you for mentioning "Shadow of the Vampire." I feel like that movie gets forgotten all the time and I really enjoy it. I think it's hilarious that Willem DeFoe played Max Schrek in that film and is in the Eggers remake of Nosferatu. I would love to see a Kill Count for "Shadow of the Vampire" sometime.
Nosferatu isn’t an official Greek word but I remember once I was in a Greek village and they told me that they pretty commonly use it to describe people that come back from the dead who bring diseases so in the 1800s, they would sometimes cut off the feet of the dead so they couldn’t get up
This Kill Count has some of the best jokes since Slugs. The little rap in the town's bay made me spit my coffee out. I'll be rewatching this one quite a bit.
Love that you're covering old movies like this. I understand it's for the new Nosferatu coming out, but still! I also get why you aren't able to do the older horror movies as much, but I love when you do!
Just saw you in this horror show on peacock! Was so hyped 😂 I yelled! “That’s fxcking James!” “My kids used to play in those woods.” 😂 my favorite cameo of the year
...Not really? Folkloric vampires didn't tend to be particularly pale, have clawed hands, or even have fangs. Those with the product of the later literary vampire trend, manly Dracula, Carmilla, and especially Varney.
@@eldricshadowchaser5454 yes they did. Vampires in folklore were depicted as hideous demonic creatures that failed miserably at pretending to be normal humans. Vampires being portrayed as attractive and charming gentlemen came with Bram Stoker's Dracula novel
@sangasp2286 Again, not really? A lot of these tropes were the product of film and literature. A lot of them were even mentioned to be rosy cheeked and such (because of all the blood). Definitely, a lot of them were viewed as demons possessing a corpse or something, but they weren't like fanged creatures, at least in the realm of Eastern European folklore. Makes sense because a lot of the hysteria was the result of people digging up graves and not understanding how decomposition works, thinking the corpses looked oddly fresh. Also Dracula as described in the novel is a fucking weird looking dude. Orlok's design is more exaggerated version of Dracula's. Definitely wasn't particularly charming either outside of some false politeness.
It's awesome you covered this movie. Can't lie, it was a bit weird watching a whole silent film with just the orchestra but it was quite a different experience. Movies were so different a century ago.
“Trying to treat his finger like a juice box!” Great damn line among many! Thanks for this KCDM episode, I love these old films and feel they deserve more attention.
I absolutely LOVE this movie, man. The sequence at the end with Orlok's shadow creeping through the house is one of my favorite horror moments to this day, and it came out more than a hundred years ago!
Fun Fact about that: Nosferatu is actually a recurring character in Spongebob, showing up two more times in quite later episodes and confirmed to be the cook of the Night Shift.
Has anyone here actually sat through the full version of metropolis It’s honestly really sick how crazy the sets are and that crazy flood scene and just the future landscape they show.
Sir, thank you for doing this movie! I'm always lost when you try some of the newer ones, and I generally avoid the ones I haven't watched yet anyway. This is truly one of the best horror movies ever, and was so ahead of its time. It's wonderful to see you finally cover this: it definitely deserves the extra attention, and will hopefully reflect well on both original and Dead Meat in the future!
"West Denial Virus" got me so good. Also, major props to the actor for making Count Orlok's movements so stiff & unnerving. In a movie with pretty overstated acting from everyone else, it grounds those moments in paralyzing terror.
Thanks James and crew! I love old film and film history. I hope someday soon we take some more trips through the 70s! Been on a 70s exploitation and schlock kick lately.
German Expressionism is why Nicholas Cage acts that way in those goofy roles. He loves the stuff, and its why this movie seems almost unsettling in the way the actors "express" themselves.
As someone who has a big obsession with early film history, I’m very happy that James and the Dead Meat crew did a full analysis of a silent film! It’s truly incredible that movies have existed for over a hundred years and are still going strong!
@cggc5871 Says the guy who comments that he's not reading a paragraph as it's too much. This kid seems far more advanced than you, little guy. They're probably far more interesting to talk to as well
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Mr. Nightmare and Dead Meat are close in subscribers. Also, can you do the cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
this movie has german exprssion a tim burton feature in all his movies
i can’t believe you broke up with raycon 💔
This Kill count is brought to you by "Nosferatu" remake in theaters this CHRISTMAS with that said let's get to the kills!
Crazy that one of the earliest and most iconic horror movies ever, is essentially an indie knock-off of Dracula. And that it was nearly destroyed and lost forever because of it.
Yeah, thank God most of it was recovered.
A lot of things you'd think were saved have been lost. Like the Disney channel drawing segments(im ____ and this is disney channel), early doctor who, the high quality original moon landing footage
@@jeremyscungio16 Heck even stuff from the 70's-90's pre-digital era don't look how they looked when they first came out. TV especially. For instance Most 70's and 80's sitcom's weren't actually drab, brown and as blurry as we see them today in repeats. They simply degraded over time before anyone could digitize them and most studios won't spend the money to restore them (honestly, these days I'd rather they didn't since they'd just chuck in an AI which would obliterate them). Dragon ball/DBZ has to be one of the more famous examples of something that's absolutely huge but no one has seen what that show was supposed to look like through official channels since it first aired in Japan. The colors in almost every official release have a green tint (or a horrible slapdash resto job) that is not intended but an artifact of degradation because of how the prints were stored.
@@devilmikey00 That sounds like the original Sailor Moon, which has a pink tint, due to its degradation (because it wasn't stored very well, I think).
and that everyone in the 2020s still knows what it is because of one gag in Spongebob
My great grandfather was born in 1911. He was 11 years old when this movie released in 1922. He remembered seeing a screening of this movie in South Africa in the 1920s when he was 11 or 12, and it scared the everliving sh*t out of him. Flash forward to 2002, and a 4 year old me was taken to visit my 91 year old great grandfather in the retirement home in San Diego. I would watch cartoons on the TV as I'd sit by his feet. At that point he just kind of sat there. The Hash Slinging Slasher episode came on, and when Nosferatu showed up my great grandfather screamed "AHHHH NOT HIM!" Amazing he saw the movie's "premiere" AND lived to see the Spongebob episode too. I miss you great grandpa Mick. He taught me how to tie my shoes when I was 7. He died in 2006 when I was 8.
May he Rest in Peace. Sounds like a fricking legend though!
Him going ahhh not him is very funny, he seemed like a funny old guy. Rest In Peace Mick 🙏
Sorry for your loss bro😕🙏
That’s awesome!
My grandpa on my mom's side of the family just passed in May of last year. It sucks we didn't get to spend much time with him before he passed away.
The fact that the first major horror movie villain of all time was played by a guy named Shrek (albeit with a different spelling) will never not be hilarious.
Even funnyer: Schreck is German for fright or scare. 😂
Shrek is love, Shrek is life.
@kowo1610 what he do to deserve that 😭
Shrek was played by a guy named Mike myers too
@TheMusicman-tv8plThat means the prophecy was true (If you're wondering what I mean, I just made that up
It's not just a piece of iconic film history, this is vampire history. As noted, Dracula didn't die from sunlight in the book. The idea that sunlight kills them was first shown here.
This Kill Count is one of my new favorites. It's got the best of everything I love about this show. The behind-the-scenes info tying real-life historical fear of a plague into Count Orlok's rat-like appearance; the top-tier wordplay with characters' names; the stupid editing gags like Hutter throwing the book on the ground... Absolutely perfect.
1:33 i think the funny thing about Noseferatu in SpongeBob is not only the fact that this even happened completely out of nowhere, but the characters just seem so nonchalant about Noseferatu being at the Krusty Krab let alone underwater, and everyone’s just like “oh you” I find that very hilarious
It was worth it though I love the show
lol I never thought about the fact he was underwater
The funniest part for me is that the 2024 movie likely wouldn’t even exist without SpongeBob bc a lot of the modern knowledge of the characterfrom millennials and zoomers comes directly from SpongeBob lmao
It was so random to me when I saw it as a child that I couldn't even find it scary I was just so baffled by what I was looking at. What prompted Hillenburg to put him in the show?
they also call him Noseferatu even though it's not his name lol
Mother: We posess Draculian antagonists at the manor.
The Draculian antagonist at the manor:
Imagine creating such an iconic character that their name becomes a commonly-used adjective
I say, dear old chap. I chuckle in quite a noisily manner at this splendid witticism.
@@Gojiragon using this
As opposed to Frankensteinic monstrosities in the abode, I concur that my humble family must suffice with the lesser.
Truly, the life of a serf is one of want and toil.
Nosferatu scared the SHIT out of me when he appeared in that one spongebob episode. I swear they only showed that episode after 10pm as well
yeees same
I loved how out of place he was and just accepted
Crazy thing is when I first saw him, I was either waking up from a nap, or falling asleep. I saw that on the TV, and literally felt my blood pressure drop😭🤣
Love it, keep covering these classic films James! The history behind them is so interesting. This is the only silent film ever covered on the channel, right?
Love your channel bro hope things are well!
As far as I’m aware, yes, Nosferatu is the first and only silent film covered on the Kill Count.
The SpongeBob joke is so iconic that it raised an entire generation of people to think Count Orlock’s name was Nosferatu. Good on ya, SpongeBob!
Nice to see you here dude 😂👍
Nosferatu might be my favourite silent film. It kinda blew me away, for a movie that is 102 years old it is incredibly well made and creepy. Thank goodness for the public domain so that everyone can see this masterpiece
Yeah I saw a screening for the 100th anniversary where an orchestra played music for it like they would back in the day with old silent films. It really adds a lot.
It's this and The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari that are my favourites
Nosferatu and Metropolis are my two favorite silent films!
@@Columbine621change your profile picture 😭😭
@polibix Why should they?
I like how Dead Meat is covering classic horror films. Hopefully he covers the Bride of Frankenstein soon to follow up his Frankenstein video since it is often considered one of the best Universal Monsters films of the classic era.
It's impressive how iconic the Bride is considering she's only onscreen for a few seconds.
@@coolnerdlll6053 Not a few seconds but a few minutes, if I'm not mistaken, she has 2 or 3 minutes of screen time
@@KeviniKowalskiI've only seen Bride once, but I don't remember it being more than a minute.
Maybe once Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is about to come out, there will be more Frankenstein on the Kill Count.
@@coolnerdlll6053 I count scenes of her body pre born to her screen time, but if you don't count it, then yeah it's propably less than a minute
This movie is so old, the older dude at 04:52 was probably born before germany was a thing. He might even be born before electric light was a thing. Crazy to see so such olden people move and act.
Yeah when James brings it up at 15:43 I thought, wow, that dude in the window probably remembers Napoleon
You want some sad history? That older dude would die from being shot by an SS Officer in 1942.
@@WesWallFilms damn
@SnuggieMaple Yeah. Really sad, but true
@@WesWallFilms Hmm, Your Source?
Fun fact SpongeBob writer Jay Lender knew the name of Count Orlok but wrote his name as Nosferatu in the show because he said it sounded better and was more recognizable. To this day he still gets messages of people correcting him for calling count Orlok "Nosferatu" even though he already knows.
This Kill Count is one of my new favourites. It contains the best of everything I enjoy about this show. Behind-the-scenes information linking real-life historical dread of a plague to Count Orlok's rat-like appearance; top-tier wordplay with character names; idiotic editing gags like Hutter throwing the book on the ground... Absolutely perfect.
Watch his old episodes of Halloween movies and Friday the 13th
@@kishenchohan1286this is a bot
The movie about the guy for flickering the lights from the Krusty Krab.
Scared the shit out of me and it wasn’t even from the episode, it was a video that mentioned the episode
Nosferatu!
I remember this episode as a little kid known The Graveyard Ship as a representment for Nosferatu
That's today standards right there for those who remember on media future years to come
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It's amazing to think this film is over 100 years old now. I'm so glad James is covering this iconic piece of horror history, not to mention one of SpongeBob's best jokes.
"Nosferatu!"
@@watershipup7101 *smiles*
@@watershipup7101 *turns the lights on and off :v*
6:42 "with it's terrifying gaze!"
Hyena: 🥺
Idc if it’s gonna rip me apart I am petting that dog
...kitty!
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One thing that I find fascinating about this movie is that we can't ask anyone involved in the film for trivia or behind the scenes facts because every single person in front of the camera and behind it are long gone (the last member of the cast and crew, Loni Nest - who played the girl at 15:40 - died in 1990). We'll never know what happened behind the camera or what it was like making the film that isn't already written down, and I find that almost spookier than the film itself.
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Hello James! A transylvanian here! I can confirm Nosferatu is not a romanian word. We call vampires Vampiri or Strigoi (Strigoi are actually what would inspire the vampires and Nosferatu himself due to their legend). However, I believe Nosferatu is a misunderstood word. Elders used to call the devil "Necuratu," (Necuratul means the Unclean one because yknow hes evil and shit) So it was probably that word, used to describe Strigoi as devils, misunderstood by a foreigner
5:45 I never thought i would ever hear james talking about fanum tax lol
It was hearing someone say your name in the middle of the night
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In a different timeline this could’ve been the first Persona reference in a Kill Count
@@anthonylesley982”o-o-ok🤓”
The masculine urge to go to The Land of Fanum Tax
Fun fact: The actor whos playing the Count is called Max Schreck. Schreck means scare. Like the german word for to scare someone is ,,erschrecken". I like that.
That'd be like a horror actor nowadays being named "Max Fear".
@@dariley95971 Would be a sick stage name
Maybe that’s why Shrek also has that name. After all, he is scary.
Also the name of the villan from batman returns
He was a real vampire im telling you
Just rewatched this the other night to prep for the remake. We were baffled by the decision to have Orlok travel to Germany by boat from Transylvania. He could have traveled by land and it would've been 800 miles. I plugged his ship route into Google Earth and found if he took a ship from the Black Sea, into the Mediterranean then around the western end of Europe up to the northern coast of Germany, his route would have been close to 5500 miles. My girlfriend was laughing so hard at me figuring this all out and then the movie just writes off the decision by saying Orlok just made the ship go faster.
Yeah but something people should also always be reminded of is the lack of certain routes we got today and they not exisiting back then.
Most of the tunnels through mountains we got today that are shortening travel by days haven't existed back then. Mostly because this even isn't in their current timeline but even than past.
So as a lot of guys already have heard - It's not the length but the way you handle it. :P
Ik it doesn’t say but they could’ve gone down the Danube to get there
In the book "Dracula", he chooses to travel by boat to avoid customs officers (the people that inspect boxes and things transported from one place to another yk?) he might find on the road
Fun fact: I watched a clip of Nosferatu a few months ago purely to find out where the funny SpongeBob reference came from and to laugh at how silly horror used to be, and then was so genuinely disturbed by how it actually scared me that I immediately watched the whole thing until like 2 am 😅
8:38 the delivery on this line fucking KILLS me. "Hehe, ehyuluh-RUN AWAYYY!"
Love the fact Willem Dafoe starred as Max Schreck in 2000's Shadow of the Vampire and now is the professor in Robert Eggers's Nosferatu. The guy is magnificient
No, it WAS Dafoe. Walken played Max Shreck (named after the actor but s totally different character) in Batman Returns
Am I the only one who thought that the silhouette of Count Orlok's hand gliding over the village in the trailer is so badass?
It sure is
Fantasia stole a lot of this for Night on Bald Mountain. The shadow over the town, Chernabog's weakness being the sun, even the way he looks and moves is very Nosferatu (and for an even weirder Dracula connection, they originally had Bela Lugosi doing the live action movement for him).
PLEASE cover The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari!! Also there's L'Inferno from 1918, it's the earliest depiction of Dante's Inferno on film!
Also, considering your coverage of this film, i'd be so damn happy if you'd do a "the cabinet of dr. Caligari" kill count, maybe even have a cesare-esque costume for it, and let's not mention this film's influence in pop culture, everything from tim burton's landscape being inspired by that film and nosferatu, all the way up to chris fleming being the voice actor for a version of cesare in the webseries "bigtop burger"
Another fun fact is that the actor who played cesare "conrad veidt" would later on play an antagonist in "casablanca". "The cabinet of dr. Caligari" is also the earliest surviving example of a mindfuck and plot twist in a movie
That’s EXACTLY how I feel about it! Watching Nosferatu is like time traveling! It is both eerie and beautiful as you realize that every one of the people you are watching are no longer alive!
The entire film is silent, of course, except for the orchestra which Conducts your emotions down forbidden paths. After a while of listening to the sweeping music, it has an almost hypnotic effect on the audience, which I think serves the movie well.
Don’t you dare relax though! One time I was starting to get cozy, and a little sleepy (the music had lulled me into a false sense of security)
that is when Count Orlok appeared out of freaking no where and made me jump out of my skin!! My heart was racing! Which I did NOT expect.
There is not a single jump-scare which is refreshing.
Instead, Nosferatu deals in the lost art of subtlety and preys on your imagination. A testament to its timelessness and why people still watch it over a century later.
I’ve been with this channel since the start and I never thought we’d be getting silent classics like nosferatu and one kill wonders like creep ever let alone back to back😭
They running out of movies😂✌️
No tf they aint.
Fun Fact: Batman Returns features Christopher Walken as the character Max Schreck named after Tim Burtons favorite actor in his favorite movie, this.
This does seem like a movie Tim Burton would love
Now I wanna see him do a version of the film
@ oh man I couldn’t even imagine the set pieces for what that would look like 🔥
@@JehBasquiat give Tim Burton 10m and 3 years and he’s gonna make a masterpiece
@@SnuggieMaple give Tim Burton 3 years, $5 Mil, 10,000lbs clay and 5,000lbs of silicone and he’ll make a masterpiece 🤣🫰🏽💯
@@JehBasquiat fair
I don't know if it's just me being weird, but I find it very intriguing that Nosferatu came out just about ten years after the Titanic had sunk - almost 25 after the end of the Spanish-American war - 4 years after the end of World War I, and at least 6-7 years before the Stock Market Crash of 1929... and a solid decade before the start of World War II.
This film is just absolutely nestled in between some of the world's most important events & or conflicts.
Not reading allat lil bro
@@cggc5871 has to be bait its like 5 sentences
@@cggc5871then don’t no need to comment
@@cggc5871 Your still doing this annoying shit 🤦🏾♂️
@@cggc5871 Then don't comment, simple as.
Since we are talking about century-old horror movies, i feel compelled to spread the word about "Haxan" which aged extremely well and still hold up to this day (lots of off-screen torture and sex, possibly the first body horror scene, a good scenario, etc...).
Fun fact, the actor Max Shreck was also the name for the character in Batman Returns. A nice little homage.
Imagine making a film that flopped, and then find out the widow of the inspiration was so pissed she ordered all of its manuscripts be destroyed. She went for blood!!
Literally, Howard Hughes did this with The Conqueror. Hughes was so behind the picture but then he watched it and tried to have it destroyed. The Conqueror is often considered one of the worst films ever made.
edit- for clarification to align more with your comment. Hughes was really behind the picture but not directly involved. But without his influence it might not have been made. However the final picture literally took him to the brink of insanity.
@tobyoneil1969 oh gosh that's right!! I forgot about that movie!!
Does anyone know why at 0:35 they give credit to Dracula/bram stoker? If they were changing everything to avoid copyright trouble - then why would they just legally admit their own IP infringement like that in the opening credits - ??!
@@justinklenk It seems they did this because the original intent behind the various changes was not done to avoid copyright troubles but to make a film that was very German. So they were very much adapting Dracula, and legally had to state it but just wanted a different depiction then that of the book.
I initially thought it was an add on years after the the movie was released and rediscovered to 100% credit Stoker but nope. They credited him from the start.
@@tobyoneil1969
THANKS! Yes - that's what makes perfect sense. 👍
0:16 QUEEN OF THE DAMNED MENTIONED!!!!!!
RIP Aaliyah 😢
shhhhhhh......'
couldn’t watch the “Hash Slinging Slasher” episode of Spongebob for years specifically because of Nosferatu
All: NOSFERATU!
*Nosferatu smiles at camera, episode ends*
I love how much fun James is having in this Kill Count, I hope it gets more views
Definitely enjjoying the variety of the Kill Counts this year, James. From the down right bad ("Mouse Trap") to the really old that I personally probably won't watch ("Nosferatu"), it's definitely a banner year for the channel. And as of this comment, 6.66m subscribers is well earned.
5:51 truly a moment in history
a break in the matrix
i was so caught off guard 😭
Shit took me out lmao
Worlds colliding it feels like
bruh moment
I think its pretty funny that people still call Count Orlok Nosferatu. Kinda like how people still call Frankenstein's monster Frankenstein even though in the book it never has a name
My biggest flex is that I live in one of the towns where Nosferatu was filmed. It's fun to recognise some places and how they changed (or didn't) in 100 years
I love that he brought this up 16:25. It’s worth mention and is great to spread wariness toward it
I’ve been a fan of this channel for a while, but I learned so much about this movie and the way it affected the genre! I’d love to see more episodes along this line!
_"If that was you on the phone and you on the bus, then who was flickering the lights?"_
**cues Count Orlock switching the lights on and off**
Nosferatu!
Nosferatu
Ngl that scene used to scare me as a kid. That and that friggen gorilla.
"Nosferatu!!"
Nosferatu!!
Comment for the sake of a comment, but I love that you didn't shy away from this one given the channel's struggles with old movies. Great stuff.
Oh, Nosferatu!
Memes aside these old films to me are actually insanely creepy from the combo of how they look and having no sound outside of the haunting score.
Nosferatu is a fantastic film and I love German expressionism! I really hope that you do look at The Cabinet of Dr Caligari one day as it's one of my favourite films.
I just studied this film in class! Max Schreck was a prolific German horror actor who actually was one of the first actors to use makeup and practical effects on screen. In order to disfigure his face for this movie, he used ultra-thin wires to stretch different parts of his face out of proportion. The wires he used actually ended up cutting him on multiple occasions and they would have to pause filming because of how much he bled. They also pioneered techniques such as speed-ramping, the use of shadows on screen, and some more broad ideas on color theory. I think this has to be my favorite silent movie of all time
Nosferatu actually got his own dedicated Spongebob episode last year
Yes, because SpongeBob has gone on so long it has to keep clinging to old jokes. I really wish they'd let it end.
@@admiralweb27 New Spongebob is actually not that bad but the people who say this keep acting like it’s the middle seasons still
what's the episode about?
@@SnuggieMaple The animation is nausea-inducing. It's fast paced, loud, and obnoxious. Believe me, I have tried to watch it. It feels like a parody of its old, slower self.
I loved the slightly clueless version of Nosferatu in Angel. He was oddly endearing for a guy slowly ev8scerating a sailor.
My favorite detail many miss about silent movies like this one is that they often had an orchestra playing music for them. In the movies 100th year anniversary I watched a screening of the movie with a live orchestra and it added a LOT. Certain movies had even had certain music associated with them, and for this one the band used copies of some of the original music for this movie which was fantastic.
Would have like to see that too.
He's FINALLY covering this movie, I never actually thought that he would, ( not that I'm complaining) I love it when james does the black and white movies, it just goes to show how far horror movies have come over the years 😊😊😊😊
I watched a lot of silent films for film school, and like James points out they’re often hard to relate to or enjoy. But Nosferatu was always the one that actually really impressed me, especially with how genuinely creepy it can be. Huge piece of history and super fun to see on the Kill Count.
I LOVE that you reviewed the 1922 Nosferatu!!
PLEEEEZE, review the Cabinet of Dr Caligari - that would be so great for us fans of both old vampire movies & old B&W horror movies. FYI, I'm also a big fan of how Dead Meat has evolved.
Fun fact: it was this movie that introduced the whole vampires dying by sunlight cliché
19:20
All of them are wrong. Vampires are supposed to sparkle.
God, I hate Twilight.
I love the theory the Twilight vampires are actually some species of fae - more than one drinks blood - and whoever turned the dad told him they were vampires because he knew he would be too dense to understand fae lore.
@@MeredithHagan Hmm. That would explain a lot about their other abilities, too. Like each one having special magic powers...
Had the luxury of getting to watch this film in my horror cinema class and it was definitely an experience to watch it in a theater setting and learning its history. Thank you so much James and the Dead Meat crew for covering it!
17:33 James Is Rapping
Yea🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The two best toys/figures of Orlok are:
Silent Screamers (1999-ish) - highly stylized, really crazy design that comes with part of the sanitarium (Knock also had a figure)
NECA Toys (2024) - just climbed out of the screen. Even comes with the letter he sent Knock.
Love when Zoran can fit in a "I'm a dad now" bit, like genuinely
I'd love to see Phantom of the Opera (1925) covered on the kill count, such a great film which has been pretty much fully recovered.
Lon Chaney's appearance apparently made people scream in the theatre when his mask was removed. One of my favourite facts about classic cinema
@@ashleightompkins3200I saw it in a tiny art house theater in 1979, and even then people gasped at the reveal, but more in a jump scare kind of way. Things just hit differently on the big screen.
Thank you for mentioning "Shadow of the Vampire." I feel like that movie gets forgotten all the time and I really enjoy it. I think it's hilarious that Willem DeFoe played Max Schrek in that film and is in the Eggers remake of Nosferatu. I would love to see a Kill Count for "Shadow of the Vampire" sometime.
They made a movie about the guy who was flickering the lights? This has got to be good.
I owe that episode of Spongebob to pretty much my love of horror. Gave me nightmares when he shows up at the end.
Nosferatu isn’t an official Greek word but I remember once I was in a Greek village and they told me that they pretty commonly use it to describe people that come back from the dead who bring diseases so in the 1800s, they would sometimes cut off the feet of the dead so they couldn’t get up
This Kill Count has some of the best jokes since Slugs. The little rap in the town's bay made me spit my coffee out. I'll be rewatching this one quite a bit.
The Transparent Soul reference around 13:00 sent me 😭😂
Love that you're covering old movies like this. I understand it's for the new Nosferatu coming out, but still! I also get why you aren't able to do the older horror movies as much, but I love when you do!
Same here.
I'd love to see him do another silent classic, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari".
I can’t wait for the new one. I’ve waited for 102 years!
Just saw you in this horror show on peacock! Was so hyped 😂 I yelled! “That’s fxcking James!”
“My kids used to play in those woods.” 😂 my favorite cameo of the year
Count Orlok's depiction is actually very fateful to how vampires were portrayed in the original folk tales
...Not really? Folkloric vampires didn't tend to be particularly pale, have clawed hands, or even have fangs.
Those with the product of the later literary vampire trend, manly Dracula, Carmilla, and especially Varney.
@@eldricshadowchaser5454 yes they did. Vampires in folklore were depicted as hideous demonic creatures that failed miserably at pretending to be normal humans. Vampires being portrayed as attractive and charming gentlemen came with Bram Stoker's Dracula novel
@sangasp2286 Again, not really? A lot of these tropes were the product of film and literature. A lot of them were even mentioned to be rosy cheeked and such (because of all the blood). Definitely, a lot of them were viewed as demons possessing a corpse or something, but they weren't like fanged creatures, at least in the realm of Eastern European folklore.
Makes sense because a lot of the hysteria was the result of people digging up graves and not understanding how decomposition works, thinking the corpses looked oddly fresh.
Also Dracula as described in the novel is a fucking weird looking dude. Orlok's design is more exaggerated version of Dracula's. Definitely wasn't particularly charming either outside of some false politeness.
I do think the more modern depiction of vampires are scarier as due to them looking human you can’t tell if they’re human or not
@@eldricshadowchaser5454 I think you're talking about a completely different tale brother
I'm excited for the Eggers version, both the Silent and Herzog versions are such quiet movies and I wonder how loyal to that he'll be
It's awesome you covered this movie.
Can't lie, it was a bit weird watching a whole silent film with just the orchestra but it was quite a different experience. Movies were so different a century ago.
“Trying to treat his finger like a juice box!” Great damn line among many! Thanks for this KCDM episode, I love these old films and feel they deserve more attention.
I absolutely LOVE this movie, man. The sequence at the end with Orlok's shadow creeping through the house is one of my favorite horror moments to this day, and it came out more than a hundred years ago!
"The nosferatu do not die like the bee when he sting once. He is only stronger; and being stronger, have yet more power to work evil."
- Bram Stoker
Oh god the beees! Not the bees!
THeyre in my eyes! My eyes!
@equusquaggaquagga536 Good 'ol Cage!
1:31
YES! SPONGEBOB SHOUTOUT!! THANK YOU JAMES A. JANISSE!
Fun Fact about that: Nosferatu is actually a recurring character in Spongebob, showing up two more times in quite later episodes and confirmed to be the cook of the Night Shift.
I would have been so sad if the Spongebob reference wasn't mentioned!
Has anyone here actually sat through the full version of metropolis
It’s honestly really sick how crazy the sets are and that crazy flood scene and just the future landscape they show.
Sir, thank you for doing this movie! I'm always lost when you try some of the newer ones, and I generally avoid the ones I haven't watched yet anyway.
This is truly one of the best horror movies ever, and was so ahead of its time. It's wonderful to see you finally cover this: it definitely deserves the extra attention, and will hopefully reflect well on both original and Dead Meat in the future!
I hope everyone is having a good morning
Its 10pm from where I am, but yeah good morning.
Eh, I woke up this morning with a cold. Still not the worst I've ever felt.
Thx gangsta
It's 2:48pm here...
"West Denial Virus" got me so good.
Also, major props to the actor for making Count Orlok's movements so stiff & unnerving. In a movie with pretty overstated acting from everyone else, it grounds those moments in paralyzing terror.
Max did such a good job that some people actually thought he was a vampire.
Could you do more classic films like this please?!
Thanks James and crew! I love old film and film history. I hope someday soon we take some more trips through the 70s! Been on a 70s exploitation and schlock kick lately.
1:55 102 years old to be exact.
5:44 I knew it’s a brain rot joke
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@ wtf
I legitimately thought he was about to make a Persona 5 joke you know because phantom thieves not a stupid brain rot joke
12:27 Ha love that disturbed Reference. One of my favorite metal bands
German Expressionism is why Nicholas Cage acts that way in those goofy roles. He loves the stuff, and its why this movie seems almost unsettling in the way the actors "express" themselves.
I’m 31, and I love this film.
I’ve literally been waiting forever for a reimagined version and thankfully this Christmas my dream came true.
Didn't expect a Lorelei and the Laser Eyes mention. That game was so friggin good man
As someone who has a big obsession with early film history, I’m very happy that James and the Dead Meat crew did a full analysis of a silent film! It’s truly incredible that movies have existed for over a hundred years and are still going strong!
“This guy says he’s coughing, get him some water!” 😂 11:59
It's creepy to watch movies older than everyone I've seen, like, these people are dead, it's weird seeing them 'happy' (even if its acting)
Lil tiktok intellectual kid thinks he the thinker 😂✌️
@@cggc5871 "I assume this is a child, engaging with art thats over 100 years old. lets make fun of them!"
@KimFromTheCrypt sounds like they're projecting
Yeah it's weird, yeah actors in more recent films have passed away but it's less creepy due to the films being more recent than over 100 years ago
@cggc5871
Says the guy who comments that he's not reading a paragraph as it's too much.
This kid seems far more advanced than you, little guy. They're probably far more interesting to talk to as well
17:36
BODY MOVING BODY MOVING 8 1 7 THE SOUND SO SOOTHIN
BODY MOVING BODY MOVIN WE BE GETTIN DOWN AND WE KNOW WELL CATCH YA GROOVIN
The editing of this video is ON POIINT I laughed so many times!! The scripts and visual gags keep getting better with each video :))
1:33 NOSFERATU!
😮😊
17:35 has gotta be the best bars of 2024
Never thought James would make a joke about “fanum tax”
I cannot believe I just heard James utter the term “fanum tax” 😭🤣
the nosferatu (2024) trailer showing up interrupting the nosferatu (1922) kill count is absolutely cinema