Doug Jones to Star in ‘Nosferatu’ Remake

This sounds… interesting:

Director David Lee Fisher (“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”) is creating a remix of the original film with a mixture of live-action combined with colorized digital backgrounds recreated from the original film.

“Nosferatu” from 1922 was not only one of the first vampire movies, it has one of the all-time best vampires in the form of Max Schrek’s “Count Orlock.” It was a blatant ripoff of “Dracula” with the names changed, because the film studio couldn’t get the rights to the book; changing the names didn’t stop Bram Stoker’s estate from suing the studio silly, almost resulting in all copies of the film being destroyed. Interestingly, “Nosferatu” introduced the “vampires go ‘pooof’ in sunlight” trope.