I still don't know.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Nosferatu is the oldest surviving Dracula movie. The guy you see flickering the lights is Count Orlok, the main character (the director couldn't get the rights to "Dracula", so he changed the name to Orlok).

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Finally, someone decided to explain it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No problem.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You mean Count Orlok?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, Nosferatu is different.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The movie is called Nosferatu, the vampire is named Count Orlok. Where am I wrong?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Hm.. I was under the impression that they were different parts of one movie. My mistake.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No problem, in fact, I believe it's a very common mistake. Nosferatu is actually Romanian for vampire. Since the movie's name is more recognizable than the Count's name, most people refer to him as Nosferatu.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Makes sense enough to me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I LOVED THAT EPISODE.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

i couldnt understand when they said his name hahah

by Anonymous 12 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O16D5pPZ9gI

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The mash singing clasher?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

At that age, all I knew about him was that he was in the first vampire movie. More than most can say, I suppose. I'm pretty sure I learned it from that show Truth or Scare. I LOVED that show when I was a kid. I wish they'd put it back on. It was so cool.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It actually wasn't the first vampire movie, that's a common misconception. It was the oldest SURVIVING Dracula movie. Before it there was Dracula's Death (now a lost film), and other movies with vampires other than Dracula.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Are you sure? Because the reason they called the film Nosferatu is because the Stoker estate refused to give anyone the rights for a film...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"Drakula's Death" premiered in theaters in 1921, "Nosferatu" was 1922. The makers of Drakula's Death got away with it because they spelled Dracula with a K (I made the mistake of typing with a C before), and because the movie had nothing to do with the book other than the fact that it used the same same Dracula character. There was also "The Vampire", and "London After Midnight"(both of which featured vampires other than Dracula), and supposedly there was an even earlier film called "Drakula" made in Russia, but there is no definite proof. There are no known copies of any of these films still in existence, which is why Nosferatu is often thought to be the first vampire movie.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Wow. I never knew that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Never mind London After Midnight, the did NOT predate Nosferatu, but the other three did.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

i figured it was just a bunch of letter pressed together

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So nosferatu was the first ever vampire movie? And how does that relate to spongebob at all?!

by Anonymous 12 years ago