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PAGEHerzog's Dracula ( "Orlok" could now be safely dispensed with) may resemble Murnau's in his loathsome appearance, but (as played by a mesmerizing Klaus Kinski) he is a predator - not vermin, never remotely a hero, but an oddly tragic figure nonetheless: "Time is an abyss a thousand nights deep.
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(Resistance: Polly tells her story of occupied France) (Orbis) (Hothouse) (The Beast of Orlok)
Joe Haldeman predicted this... nwhyte 2009
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Count Orlok (the vampire) is destroyed in the end by an open window.
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His IMDb bio points out: “His performance as the bald, bat-eared, close-fanged Orlok remains one of the most frightening film characters in history.”
8 Fictional Vampires Who Achieved Reel Immortality | Fandomania 2010
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In the 1922 German horror flick,"Nosferatu," the reflection of the vampire Orlok portayed by Max Schreck is clearly visible in a mirror in one scene...although based on "Dracula," that name was never employed because the producers had failed to pay for the rights to use it!
Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: 15 Intriguing Halloween-Related Factoids! Ph.D. Dr. Franklin Ruehl 2011
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I defy anybody to be scarier than the vampire Graf Orlok, as portrayed by Max Schreck.
8 Fictional Vampires Who Achieved Reel Immortality | Fandomania 2010
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Regardless though, the folkloric origins of modern movie creatures have little value or influence on what they are, they are always most defined by the first successful film to feature them then what came before, even Twilight owes more to Count Orlok then it does folklore.
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In the 1922 German horror flick,"Nosferatu," the reflection of the vampire Orlok portayed by Max Schreck is clearly visible in a mirror in one scene...although based on "Dracula," that name was never employed because the producers had failed to pay for the rights to use it!
Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: 15 Intriguing Halloween-Related Factoids! Ph.D. Dr. Franklin Ruehl 2011
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His Count Orlok (Max Schreck), a pale ghoul, spreads disease on an epidemic scale, his presence heralded by the rats that swarm from his "death ship."
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Bumbling monster hunters Ridley and Falstaff are hot on the trail of their nemesis, the mysterious sorcerer Orlok.
Image Comics Solicitations for January 2008 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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