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NOT a bad mixture!
First: it IS amazing this 1922 film exists at all! In '22 Bram Stoker's widow sued the film makers for plagurism... and WON! All negatives and known copies of "Nosferatu" were located and destroyed! Fortunately for us, a handfull of prints survived. Still, you can forget about a "complete" print, much less an original negative, ever surfacing. (In some prints the title cards do refear to the Vampire as "Dracula".) <
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>Now- some "pureists" will object to a heavy metal soundtrack acompanying this silent classic. However, this is not the first time rock music has been used for a reissure of a silent film. In <
>1985 a "restored" version of Fritz Lang's "Metropolos" (1925) featured an 80s rock score (including Pat Benitar). And, for "Nosferatu", you CAN'T find more approprian music than Type O Negative. And, whoever edited this knew the right song (or song excerpt) for the right scene! (Too bad this project was completed before their "Life Is Killing Me" came out- there're a lot of songs on that CD that would fit here.) Other good bands for this would include Tristania, Tiamat, Moonspell, Tenebre and Bloody Mary.

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Nosferatu
For beening made in the 20's it was very interesting. Not scary like now Vampires. But all in all made good. Also loved the music.

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Interesting idea, bad execution
A rock soundtrack certainly could work with Nosferatu, and given the price I paid for this DVD I was willing to take a chance on it. <
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>However, this is not a rock soundtrack--it is just rock music played over the film. Since this didn't seem like a bottom-rung cheapo release, I naively imagined that (1) the soundtrack would be instrumental, and (2) the music would have been composed to fit the film. <
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>In fact, there are continuous vocals on the soundtrack and this is distracting in the extreme (it pretty much makes it unwatchable). <
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>Further, I would guess that the music was not composed specifically for this version of the film, as the changes in tempo, key, and instrumentation seem to have absolutely no relationship to what is appearing on the screen. (If I'm wrong and this was originally written for the film, the band did a genuinely awful job). <
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