The torturous production of the classic 1922 vampire film Nosferatu is recreated in this stylized account of director F.W. Murnau and his obsession with creating realistic horror by any means necessary -- even if those means include actual bloodletting. The film begins as Murnau (John Malkovich) is ready to take his unauthorized interpretation of the Bram Stoker tale on location in Czechoslovakia. There, the director has arranged for his cast and crew to live in the same castle in which they will shoot their parts, as they all wait for their co-star, Max Schreck (Willem Dafoe) -- Murnau's choice to play Count Orlok -- to arrive. Their leader has warned them that Schreck is a student of the Stanislovsky method of performance and will not respond to them out-of-character. Nothing, however, can prepare them for the real thing: when the actor arrives, he's already in full Gothic regalia, asserting that he is indeed a vampire. Schreck makes good on his claims by terrorizing the cast and crew, attacking Murnau's original cinematographer (Wolfgang Muller) and plucking bats out of the air for midnight snacks. Director E. Elias Merhige previously made his name with his experimental theater productions and with his horrific film school thesis, Begotten. STARS.........: John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier DIRECTOR......: E. Elias Merhige WRITERS.......: Steven Katz GENRE.........: Drama | Horror METASCORE.....: 71 IMDB RATING...: 6.9/10 34,413 votes IMDB link.....: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0189998 RUNTIME.......: 1h 35mn SIZE..........: 3.41GB VIDEO CODEC...: x264 ([email protected]) RESOLUTION....: 1920x860 ASPECT RATIO..: 2.25:1 BITRATE.......: 4500 Kbps (3-pass) FRAMERATE.....: 23.976 fps AUDIO.........: English E-AC3 5.1 640kbps SUBTITLES.....: English CHAPTERS......: Yes SOURCE........: Shadow.of.the.Vampire.2000.DUAL.COMPLETE.BLURAY-SMAHD ENCODED BY....: Sartre ENCODE DATE...: 2016-10-09 ENCODE NOTE...: Poor quality source. Bluray appears to have been transferred from an interlaced HDTV master. I'm testing using ex.ua as a seed source so there's no nfo or sample file in the torrent, just the movie file. If you want a sample, go to www.ex.ua and search for it or look for the torrent on Demonoid