Available for the first time in a restored cut, this essential purchase is the first and still greatest screen Dracula. Max Schreck is unforgettable as the rat-faced, needle-fingered human stick insect who emerges from his battered castle to spread plague through the land as he pays revolting attentions to the pure heroine.
Director F.W. Murnau made a few unwise decisions (using fast - as opposed to slow - motion to convey the supernatural passage of the vampire's carriage) but Schreck's vampire is truly nightmarish, scuttling from shadows like something you'd really like to see back under its rock.