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Ask the right kind of insufferable nerd what their favorite Dracula movie is, and they\u2019ll absolutely <\/em>say \u201cNosferatu<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em>\u201d If you\u2019re extra lucky, they\u2019ll even call it \u201cNosferatu: A Symphony of Horror\u201d <\/em>or its original German title, \u201cNosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens,\u201d <\/em>just to hammer home the fact that they\u2019re smarter than you.<\/p>\n

And you know what? They have a point. Nosferatu <\/em>stands as a classic of the horror genre more than 100 years after its debut<\/a>. It inspired generations of horror aficionados, influencing writers, actors, and directors, and changing the vampire mythos forever.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also a hack job. The film was the first script commissioned by an independent German production company called Prana, founded by a pair of oddballs with a love of the occult. Despite having begun the project with the specific intention of creating a Dracula <\/em>adaptation, featuring inescapably close knockoffs of the book\u2019s characters, events, and plot beats, Prana never bothered to secure the rights to the story. They changed “Count Dracula” to “Count Orlok,” “Jonathan Harker” to “Thomas Hutter,” and England to Germany, with some accounts claiming that the changes were made to avoid prosecution, while others saw them as small details that made the story more palatable for German audiences. Whatever the reasoning, Nosferatu <\/em>was pretty clearly just Dracula <\/em>with a new coat of paint slapped on. For context, Bram Stoker\u2019s novel had only hit bookstores in 1897, 24 years before Nosferatu <\/em>started production \u2013 it would be like if a studio today put out a word-for-word German remake of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban<\/a><\/em>, but changed Harry Potter\u2019s name to Wolfgang, set the whole thing at the University of Freiburg, and called it Magic Boy and the Mean Dog Uncle<\/em>. <\/p>\n

How most copies of Nosferatu <\/em>got set on fire<\/h2>\n
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The similarities between Stoker\u2019s work and Prana\u2019s film weren\u2019t lost on anyone, least of all Stoker\u2019s widow, Florence. She got mighty litigious about Prana\u2019s whole \u201clet\u2019s Mad Libs <\/em>a copyrighted work and hope nobody says anything\u201d approach to originality, suing the fledgling studio for a staggering $5,000 in damages. Between the lawsuit and the failure of Nosferatu <\/em>at the box office, Prana declared bankruptcy, never producing another title. The judge in the case declared the film the rightful property of Florence Stoker, who promptly ordered that all prints of Nosferatu <\/em>were to be burned. The court backed her up, making it effectively illegal to own a copy of the film.<\/p>\n

Ask anyone involved with The Star Wars Holiday Special<\/a> <\/em>and they\u2019ll tell you: When a movie inspires the people in charge to publicly describe how badly they want to burn the negatives, it has the sort of publicity that most projects can only dream of. It didn\u2019t take long for Nosferatu <\/em>to become the stuff of legends. Thanks to its cult status, several prints survived the Stoker estate\u2019s purge, and by the time that Florence died in 1937, the movie was getting rave reviews \u2013 save one, in The New York Times<\/a>, <\/em>where it was referred to in 1929 as an \u201corgy of gooseflesh,\u201d whatever that means. Film geeks continued to pass around copies of the film for decades, with dozens of unofficial restorations in circulation by the time the film entered the public domain in 2019. In the years since its debut, Nosferatu <\/em>has become every bit as iconic an entry in the annals of vampire movie history as Bela Lugosi\u2019s Dracula. <\/em>It\u2019s inspired two remakes: one directed by Werner Herzog in 1979, which says the quiet part out loud and calls its main antagonist “Dracula,” and one scheduled for 2024 starring Bill Skarsgard. There was even a horror movie based on the making of Nosferatu<\/em> itself, 2000’s Academy Award-nominated Shadow of the Vampire<\/em>, starring Willem Dafoe as original Orlok actor Max Schreck. Schreck, for his part, would be immortalized across media for generations to come, lending his name to the secondary villain in Batman Returns<\/em>, and his likeness to a never-ending series of Spongebob Squarepants <\/em>visual gags.<\/p>\n

A century later, the morality behind the creation of Nosferatu <\/em>is, at best, super hazy. The lesson, however, is clear: Commit blatant copyright infringement and refuse to carry out the orders of the court, and your art will survive in perpetuity. Or, put more simply, “it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission.”<\/p>\n\n

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