The Legacy of Nosferatu (1922) and the Birth of Horror

In 1922 Max Schreck starred in the horror classic Nosferatu, a silent film that, along with The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, birthed an entire genre. In today's Wholesome Halloween we'll go through a little history lesson on the birth of our favourite cinematic genre and talk about Nosferatu's place as it's great grandparent.
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[@laurelgardner]

Damn, why doesn't this channel have more subs?

[@DanDrambles]

That's what I ask myself everyday 😭

[@PavelThorsonos]

Somehow, you forgot the most important element of the film: Scary Armadillo!
Jokes aside, great video, and for once one about a movie my usually horror-avoiding self has seen!

[@laurendavis377]

Thank you for the history lesson- I haven’t heard of many of these shorts and films, gotta add them to my TBR for sure

[@NoReplyAsset]

absolutely agree with your assessment on the problematic elements. this stuff in old media should be addressed without ignoring it but also without getting defensive about it.
really a shame that so much horror is lost to time though. maybe loss of media was the real horror all along.

[@EllisThings]

Brilliant video Skeledan. Love the depth you went into on this one. And also the care and variation and selections of the entire series tbf 👏

[@DanDrambles]

Appreciate the love!

[@SnowCat-nu7gj]

I was blessed to watch this film for the first time with a live orchestral accompaniment, in a famously haunted theatre, on Halloween night. With a preface from a silent film expert talking about it's history. Genuinely one of the best experiences of my life. I had so much fun. I remember a young kid got really scared at one point and his mum had to carry him out while he was crying so it can definitely still pack a horror punch or at the very least traumatised that one kid

[@hannahlarge5738]

German cinema in a northern accent. You-tube auto-subs really didn't stand a chance.

[@DanDrambles]

I like to give them a challenge.

[@Loki_K]

Absolutely loved the intro. 🖤
(5 words for the algorithm ~)

[@letswatchstuff2009]

Phenomenal overview of the movie and its legacy, loved watching this. Would definitely be interested in some more historical horror deep dives.

[@SamuraiMujuru]

The version of Nosferatu i originally watched was the one with the score from Type O Negative

[@Snuiig]

The rabbit hole I’ve gone down since discovering nosferatu should be studied😂😂

[@audrenstein2356]

You've outdone yourself this time

[@DanDrambles]

Thank you very much! Put a lot of effort in with this one. Glad it's showing.

[@alvermette218]

I've always loved this movie and yes it was pretty much the birth of horror.

[@uwtartarus]

I think Van Helsing is supposed to be Dutch. Anyway, great video!

[@hartthorn]

On the hateful imagery topic, feel it might also be worth entertaining the idea of reverse iconography. These tropes and ideas definitely predate the movie, but there's a wide array of tropes in that vein (pun). But the success of the movie led to it being ADOPTED by the antisemites as a simple and accessible point of reference. "THOSE people, ya know, like Count Orlock!"
This would, of course, not be mutually exclusive to your point, that the racism was a sort of background radiation that influenced the movie indirectly in how it was made.

[@brettcoster4781]

I absolutely agree with you on this. I really think that Goebbels et al built on the images they had already seen, particularly with the likes of Jud Suss, equating the visions of rats carrying "plague".

[@tss3393]

Circling back to this one after the Robert Eggers trailer dropped. Don't know if you're planning for a video on it, but I'd love to hear your thoughts after it comes out.

[@DanDrambles]

Almost definitely will!

[@timd3469]

The black and white is whatever, but I always use subtitles so I think I could have watched this with silent movie text (*if the music is tolerable).

[@supervamp78]

Me watching nosferatu for the first time just cause the remake trailer dropped. "I-Is nosferatu a jewish stereotype?"
I'm glad I wasn't crazy