Acclaimed, unauthorized silent German adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula," with the characters' names changed to avoid payment of royalties to the author' s heirs. Though it breaks most of the ground rules of vampire lore, this highly stylized exercise in Expressionism is one of the greatest Dracula films ever made! Max Schreck, resembling a two-legged rat, chills the blood as Count Orlok (Dracula)! A German remake of 1979, directed by Werner Herzog, featured Klaus Kinski in Schreck's role.
