Along with Carpenter's Vampires, this ranks as my fave modern-day vampire movie, but for entirely different reasons. Carpenter's is a lot of hokey fun, with James Woods chewing up each scene and spitting it out. Here, we have the story of Murnau (Malkovich, as a hell-bent director) trying to direct the movie Nosferatu (with Willem Dafoe as the lead, in a role which I thought should've earned him the Oscar). Dafoe plays the actor Max Schreck so eerily, and darkly comic - the whole movie has that tone - and the others actors feed off his performance and enhance their own as well. I don't want to give anything away, but the final scenes of Murnau directing the film are awesome. Fuck it, this whole movie is awesome.
This pic is Willem Dafoe, not Max Schreck. What great casting and make-up.

Now THIS was an AMAZING movie...can't believe I forgot all about it (and actually reviewed "Vampryos Lesbos" before it...).

I was TOTALLY emersed in the film, feeling truly like I was there while they filmed Nosferatu in "the olden days".

Papa MIkeY!