I have been wanting to watch this influential movie for a long time. I watched it yesterday and i think it was an interesting experience. I think old movies like nosferatu have a different kind of effect on audience now than they had back in the they when they were fresh. Is it still a frightening movie ? The answer for that would be questionable.
The reasons for that different kind of effect which i mentioned above are that the movie has no sound except for music- although it's kind of cool and sometimes creepy, it can bore today's audience- and the camera's that the filmmakers used back then has a different framing. It feels like a stop motion animation. I think i don't even need to mention that the movie is black and white and there is a use of heavy make up. Of course the source of all these factors (which makes the movie scary i think for the modern viewer) is the technology that they had back then.
So i think about it and find the fact very interesting that how time works differently for two different generation. All those nostalgical elements that are in Nosferatu probably had no scary effect on 1920's generation and instead of that the main character was the scary element of the movie (i am sure of that! look at that face!).
Thinking about that just brought up a question in my head, as i'm writing this : We, the modern viewer find movies like Nosferatu creepy because of it's nostalgical aspects because we are unfamiliar with them. So how much more powerful effect those movies will have in ..lets say 30 years from now ? Surely, that generation will be much more unfamiliar (maybe completely alien) than we are with those aspects of old movies.
Technology will always have a success at continuing to scare people in many ways.
Next movie, Bladerunner.
