This must be a terrible movie from the horror buff's point of view. It's slow-moving and there's (almost) no blood and gore, no action...
In my opinion it's nothing less than a movie about European and most of all German culture. It reflects Romanticism, Naturalism and the whole Berlin movement of the late '70s/ early '80s - remember David Bowie's "Heroes". In at least certain parts of Europe it gained cult reputation as THE classic of the Punk/New Wave movement. Indeed: Isabelle Adjani with her pale expressionist beauty, Bruno Ganz and his sleepwalking, depressingly tragic figure, and Klaus Kinski's lonely Nosferatu must have been perfect Generation X icons. The whole movie stinks of rotten death and downfall, of "No future"! I remember this movie in the first place because of it's very impressive and haunting visual moments: Ganz's Transsylvania hike (underscored by a great soundtrack), Adjani sitting on a bank near the sea, the depiction of the plague and people's reaction to it - striking moments which elevate this movie to a masterpiece.
In my opinion it's nothing less than a movie about European and most of all German culture. It reflects Romanticism, Naturalism and the whole Berlin movement of the late '70s/ early '80s - remember David Bowie's "Heroes". In at least certain parts of Europe it gained cult reputation as THE classic of the Punk/New Wave movement. Indeed: Isabelle Adjani with her pale expressionist beauty, Bruno Ganz and his sleepwalking, depressingly tragic figure, and Klaus Kinski's lonely Nosferatu must have been perfect Generation X icons. The whole movie stinks of rotten death and downfall, of "No future"! I remember this movie in the first place because of it's very impressive and haunting visual moments: Ganz's Transsylvania hike (underscored by a great soundtrack), Adjani sitting on a bank near the sea, the depiction of the plague and people's reaction to it - striking moments which elevate this movie to a masterpiece.