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| | DVD Times - Nosferatu the Vampyre |
 | | Firstly, it includes both the German (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht) and English (Nosferatu the Vampyre) versions on separate sides, and rather than resort to dubbing, Herzog shot the dialogue sequences in both English and German, making each version subtly different. |
 | | Werner Herzog's Nosferatu is a fascinating, frustrating piece of work - crammed with memorable images and ideas, many of them quite unlike anything to be found in other vampire films, it nonetheless is fatally hampered by an overly slavish devotion to its great forebear: F.W.Murnau's 1921 Nosferatu (which I've reviewed elsewhere). |
 | | It's all too obvious that Anchor Bay shares my opinion, since it's the German version that comes on the side with all the extras and the commentary - and, just to rub it in, the German soundtrack has been given a Dolby Digital 5.1 remix, with the English version in plain vanilla mono. |
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