Robert Eggers was very smart in his choice of castles to "play" Orlok's domicile, as he chose two separate castles for the exterior and interior shots, respectively, and both castles have close ties ...

Vampires were very real ... with "Dracula" and other tales. According to many Slavic traditions, a vampire is an undead being that rises from the grave to drink blood and take its life force ...

Released in 1922 and directed by German expressionist filmmaker F.W. Murnau, the images of Graff Orlok (Max Schreck) rising from his coffin ... in fact, a real vampire who begins to hunt down ...

As someone fascinated by vampire lore going back to his youth ... by the people who believed in vampires and thought they were real, [for them] it's a putrid corpse." Eggers spent a lot of ...