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	The DVD Journal: Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
		Knock tells Hutter that a new client, Count Orlok, wishes to leave his remote castle home and take up new lodgings nearby — in fact, Knock suggests, the deserted house across the street from Hutter's would be ideal.
		Orlok's letter of intent to Knock, written in runish occult characters, and Knock's referring to Orlok as "Master" before the vampire has arrived, make it apparent that Knock is already under Orlok's influence before the events of the film even begin.
		The rugged mountain region surrounding remote Orava castle, used for Orlok's lair, is desolate and Lovecraftian, befitting its distorted inhabitant.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/n/nosferatu.shtml (2962 words)

	Count Orlok - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Orlok is visited by the film's protagonist, the young Georg Hutter, the assistant of a Bremen estate agent, who travels to his castle to show properties for sale in Bremen.
		Orlok's character is largely remembered in popular culture for one scene towards the end of the film, in which an unseen Orlok climbs the stairs of Hutter's house, casting a hideous shadow on the wall.
		Orlok appears as one of the "elder" vampires in the Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Count_Orlok (1023 words)

	Nosferatu (1922): An analysis
		Orlok arrives in her bedroom (remember that his property is a building directly opposite to her house seen through her bedroom window) and she keeps the vampire in blood drinking mode throug the night until the first cock's crow.
		Count Orlok is an ugly, rat-like creature, not your typical vampire in any sense of the word (thus with exceptions to homages in Herzog's remake or Stephen King's homage in Salem's Lot, no vampire in film history has ever looked remotely like Orlok).
		Orlok is so animalistic that he seems to have been ravaged by vampirism as if it was a disease.
	www.geocities.com /faustus_08520/Nosferatu.html (1960 words)

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		Hutter leaves his wife Ellen(Greta Schroder - The Golem) with his friends, much to her despare, and sets off for the Carpathians, where he discovers that the locals are terrified of Count Orlok, and he finds a book on local superstitions, most notably Vampires, or 'Nosferatu',Hutter laughs this off and continues to Castle Orlok.
		The next day, Hutter is locked in his room and he witnesses the Count leave the castle with 5 Coffins filled with earth from Plagued land.
		Orlok is heading to Germany via ship, a ship in which he kills the entire crew on route to London, and when he emerges, he brings with him a fleet of plagued rats.
	www.epinions.com /content_171684630148 (906 words)

	IGN: Venerable Vampires of Hollywood
		Take Count Orlok, director F.W. Murnau's creepy rendition of Dracula (but couldn't be called Dracula due to problems securing the rights), whose sickly countenance emphasizes plague and decay.
		Unlike the eccentric cool of modern vampires, Count Orlok sulks with an ungainly lurch, and has sharp buckteeth in place of the sleeker fangs.
		Orlok's bald visage isn't lost in modern vampire lore, with Nosferatu living on in countless movies and TV shows as hairless, animalistic predators resembling the count himself--testament to the great impact of this film.
	tv.ign.com /articles/712/712443p1.html (584 words)

	FROM MAMBO TO HIP HOP WEPAwebTV www.newedgecabaret.com
		However, he is soon picked up by Count Orlok's coach, which is driven by a strange specter that hides its face, and moves at an unnatural speed.
		Count Orlok tries to suck the blood out of the wound, before being repelled by a cross hanging around Hutter's neck.
		Orlok is the new master of the boat.
	www.newedgecabaret.com /MYSPACE.html (3658 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies :: Nosferatu (xhtml)
		Schreck plays the count more like an animal than a human being; the art direction by Murnau's collaborator, Albin Grau, gives him bat ears, clawlike nails and fangs that are in the middle of his mouth like a rodent's, instead of on the sides like on a Halloween mask.
		Then Count Orlok rises straight up, stiff and eerie, from one of the coffins, in a shot that was as frightening and famous in its time as the rotating head in ``The Exorcist.'' The ship arrives in port with its crew dead, and the hatch opens by itself.
		Murnau (1888-1931) made 22 films but is known mostly for three masterpieces: ``Nosferatu''; ``The Last Laugh'' (1924), with Emil Jannings as a hotel doorman devastated by the loss of his job, and ``Sunrise'' (1927), which won Janet Gaynor an Oscar for her work as a woman whose husband considers murdering her.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19970928/REVIEWS08/401010345/1023 (1337 words)

	Belfry: The Good, the Vlad, and the Ugly
		Orlok’s arrival in Bremen is accompanied by a mysterious rat-borne plague (there really was an outbreak of plague in Bremen in 1838), and Ellen sacrifices her own life to destroy the vampire by welcoming him into her boudoir to nibble her neck and then detaining him until dawn, when he evaporates in the morning sun.
		The cadaverous Max Schreck as Count Orlok is still the eeriest Dracula ever to hit the screen; with his bald pate, hook nose, goggling eyes, and bird-like talons, he looks like a cross between Keith Richards and a startled sewer rat.
		The Count’s body is subsequently stolen from the police morgue by a mysterious beauty, who turns out to be Countess Marya Zaleska (Gloria Holden), Dracula’s you-know-what, and just like Dad she doesn’t drink … wine.
	www.pa2rick.com /belfry/good_vlad_ugly.html (2443 words)

	Nosferatu review by Roger Ebert
		Schreck plays the count more like an animal than a human being; the art direction by Murnau's collaborator, Albin Grau, gives him bat ears, clawlike nails and fangs that are in the middle of his mouth like a rodent's, instead of on the sides like on a Halloween mask.
		Hutter is still laughing at warnings of vampirism, but his laugh fades at dinner, when he cuts himself with a bread knife and the count seems unhealthily interested in ``Blood--your beautiful blood!'' Two of the key sequences in the film now follow; both are montages in which simultaneous events are intercut.
		Then Count Orlok rises straight up, stiff and eerie, from one of the coffins, in a shot that was as frightening and famous in its time as the rotating head in ``The Exorcist.'' The ship arrives in port with its crew dead, and the hatch opens by itself.
	pasta.cantbedone.org /pages/VEYu0j.htm (1310 words)

	Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror quiz -- free game
		The tale begins: Count Orlok had written a letter to Knock, the realtor, to purchase a house in Bremen, Germany.
		Locked in Orlok's castle, Hutter witnesses Count Orlok loading six coffins laden with earth onto a carriage.
		Orlok climbs into the sixth coffin and then he and his unholy cargo take off to Bremen.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=113472 (640 words)

	Review for Nosferatu: The First Vampire
		Count Orlok - Nosferatu himself, a hideous monster who could stand to wear braces for a few hundred years.
		Thomas arrives in Transylvannia to find the Count is a frightening visage, though he first chalks up the strange happenings as bad dreams.
		Too late he realizes that Orlok is a vampire and the monster wants Ellen (after seeing her picture in a locket).
	www.badmovies.org /movies/nosferatu/index.html (550 words)

	Nosferatu
		The rats the Count brings with him in his boat to propagate in the foreign county, carrying with them the plague, symbolize the Nazi ideology that spreads throughout Europe.
		The ambivalence principally affects the characters, from Orlok (count/vampire) to Knock (prominent/crazy) and Hutter (heterosexual husband/homosexual lover) as well as the parallel between the vampire and human worlds (in particular the use of the negative while the coach passes from the normal world to Orlok's).
		The stretches of land are the mental projections of the characters while the waves of the sea announce the imminent arrival of the count.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/cult/nosferatu.html (1330 words)

	The Scent of Deathgate's Bloom
		Orlok didn't press this on him, instead he drank two glasses with dinner and suggested a different, less expensive brand for afterwards.
		Count Orlok, or Michel Glavna, slowly placed the sleeping author under the long vines of pink and white flowers.
		Orlok was, indeed, surprised he could put up such a fight against his baby, the one flower he couldn't destroy.
	lonestar.texas.net /~lochness/Aurora/stories/scentof.html (2574 words)

	Calvin College Chimes: Arts & Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The main character, Count Orlok (played by Max Schrek), is a strange small man with pointy ears who twitches around in the shadows hunting victims.
		Orlok is mysterious, grotesque, and the type of character ghost stories are made of.
		For example, Count Orlok is hit by a ray of sunlight and rigidly disappears in a puff of smoke his grotesque face permanently burned into the horror genre.
	www-stu.calvin.edu /chimes/2000.10.13/ae/story01.shtml (886 words)

	Nosferatu
		At last Hutter realizes that Count Orlok is not the ugliest man to ever walk the earth but the ugliest vampire.
		During the journey the crew is stricken one by one with a mysterious plague until they are all dead.
		If Count Orlok didn't do that, he might have arrived at Bremen faster than Hutter.
	sopranosimage.tripod.com /nosferatu (337 words)

	No-count Dracula / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC
		Orlok, aka the vampire Nosferatu, was the first screen representation (albeit an unauthorized one) of the blood-sucking gent immortalized in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.
		The Orlok incarnation crept into the public consciousness in 1922, in German director F.W. Murnau's silent film Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens (that is, A Symphony of Horror), which is today widely revered by classic-horror-film buffs.
		With his bald and deformed cranium, pointed ears, rat-like teeth, clutching talons and huge hook of a nose, Orlok/Nosferatu (as played by then-obscure German stage actor Max Schreck) is a hideous nightmare of a creature.
	www.mountainx.com /ae/2003/0924nosferatu.php (971 words)

	Jim's Reviews - Murnau's Nosferatu
		Orlok embodies all of the basic characteristics of the vampire: human/beast duality, immortality, immense power (including the ability to victimize), mystery, entree into the supernatural, as well as the forbidden eroticism (both hetero- and homosexual) which is always key to this myth.
		Orlok is often shot within an arch (for instance, when we first see him in his castle, emerging out of the shadows; after he retreats from Hutter when Ellen's 'telepathic' scream drives him away; when he's unloading his coffins – happily without the fast-motion effect at Bremen).
		Orlok is the king of vampires, sure; but he's also a disfigured, terribly lonely old man – not to mention the only Dracula figure who doesn't have any vampiric handmaidens living in his castle.
	jclarkmedia.com /film/filmreviewnosferatumurnau.html (8192 words)

	Nosferatu - Directed by F.W. Murnau
		At dinner, Hutter cut himself with a knife and Orlok becomes obsessed at the sight of his blood.
		She calls out to Hutter during a moment of apparent delirium and at that moment Orloks ceases his attack.
		Orlok stows himself in an earth filled coffin and journeys to his new home in Wisborg by river raft and ship.
	nosferatumovie.com /nosferatu_story_board2.html (214 words)

	Really Worth Renting
		So goes a memorable epigram of Count Orlok -- the titular vampire of Nosferatu who boasts one of the most frightening, unforgettable faces in the history of film -- as he gazes at the voluptuous face of Greta Schröder.
		It is Orlok's monstrous glare that dominates the eerie German masterpiece from 1922 and has lingered in the nightmares of viewers for 80 years.
		One example of this occurs when the virginal Ellen reads that, in order to destroy Count Orlok, she must let him into her bed and "keep the vampire by her side until the cock has crowed." The ensuing scene far more closely resembles the aftermath of a rape than that of a vampire attack.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/2002/10/10-31-02tdc/10-31-02darts-11.asp (507 words)

	nosferatu
		The Count's current residence in the Carpathian Mountains is where the peasants truly believe in the legends of vampires, and live in fear.
		Only when near the Count's castle do the locals show their terror of vampires, as all the signs point to the young man being in great danger if he goes on to the Count's castle.
		He also aims to go after the attractive Mina, and he brings along his coffin and the other vampire coffins because they must sleep in the same hallow ground where they were buried (with the same earth from those who died of the Black Death).
	www.sover.net /~ozus/nosferatu.htm (830 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Shadow of the Vampire'
		For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed, his chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin." He is white from his exile from the sun.
		He was called "Count Orlok" in a hopeless trick to fool the lawyers of the Bram Stoker estate.
		Recently, even the feisty Buffy the Vampire Slayer fell for the count, although she concluded that Dracula was basically just another common vampire with a few extra mind-control tricks.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/01.25.01/shadow-0104.html (1277 words)

	Nosferatu Movie Review - BLOODY-DISGUSTING.COM
		The legendary Count Orlok make-up worn by Max Schreck is as convincing and terrifying as any creature effects done in the eight decades since the film was released, and Schreck essays the bloodthirsty vampire with such macabre zeal that one wonders how anyone meeting Orlok would not know right away that he was a monster.
		Murnau enhances his titular terror’s frightening countenance with some excellent visual effects (including a scene of Orlok passing right through a closed wooden door, and the iconic shot of him rising, stiff as a board, from his coffin), and great shot composition and use of shadow.
		It is also never clear why Orlok races to civilization to get to Ellen, appears to have a hold over her before he arrives and takes up residence right across the street, yet waits several days to attack her.
	www.bloody-disgusting.com /review.php?id=1207 (1069 words)

	Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
		Only near to the Count's castle do the local's have the mark of terror, certain to a man that Thomas' journey can lead only to the grave.
		Orlok, in these hands, is like a fool in love; desperate for the closeness of touch, longing across countries for a kiss, given to gazing forlornly from windows.
		Orlok fades from view, negative exposure turns day to night, sped up motion makes a carriage move too quickly for comfort, objects shift without human interaction.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Nosferatu1922.html (802 words)

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		Vampyre bats, sewer rats and large rabid wolves are all a potential threat as they guard the castle while the Count takes his beauty sleep.
		The best scene, or the one that audiences of the time most remembered along with the one that modern audiences are likely to remember, has Count Orlok rising stiffly from a coffin as though propelled by an unseen force, ready to kill.
		At the end of Nosferatu, the people vanquish Count Orlok, the evil foreign presence, when Ellen surrenders her chastity to the vampire, keeping him until the morning when the sunlight destroys him.
	www.lycos.com /info/nosferatu--count-orlok.html (618 words)

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