'Nosferatu' Steps Into the 21st Century

It has been more than 100 years since German filmmaker F.W. Murnau released the first great horror film, 1922’s silent Nosferatu. An unauthorized adaptation of the Irish author Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, Murnau’s film singularly created the horror genre and inspired filmmakers for eras to come. So much so that the American filmmaker Robert Eggers, whose adaptation of Nosferatu was released on Christmas Day this year, cites Murnau’s work as an early inspiration after seeing the film at the impressionable age of nine.