Nosferatu Returns

Making movies about making movies never goes out of fashion it seems – just take a look at the success of Gods and Monsters Gods and Monsters and The Player. The decision to follow in such successful footsteps clearly paid off for Nicholas Cage at this year’s Toronto Film Festival who was at the festival with the film that marks the actor’s debut as a producer, Shadow of the Vampire. A fictional account of the making of the classic 1922 horror film Nosferatu, the movie stars John Malkovich as genius director FW Murnau and Willem Dafoe as the principal actor Max Schreck and focuses on the complicated relationship between director and star. The movie was picked up at Toronto by Lion Gate Films – the same company responsible for the Oscar-winning Gods and Monsters. Perhaps because one of its producers was the former head of London film distribution company Metrodome Shadow of the Vampire also features a raft of British stars including Cary Elwes, Catherine McCormack and Eddie Izzard.