Favorite Vampire Movie?

[stevethesmurf]

Bram stoker for me too!

[JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel]

30 days of night

[Stavros]

How did they fill the teeming rat sequence in the ‘78 Nosferatu?

Two versions:

“[We used] 11,000 rats. They were snow white, so we had to dye them grey. Just a huge, huge venture. We had to transport them all across Europe from different countries: Germany, Austria, then into Holland… When the Dutch customs guys opened them, one of them fainted instantly. It took us 45 minutes until we brought him back!” (DVD commentary)
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/...es/herzogs-ark

Dutch behavioural biologist Maarten 't Hart, hired by Herzog for his expertise of laboratory rats, revealed that, after witnessing the inhumane way in which the rats were treated, he no longer wished to cooperate. Apart from travelling conditions that were so poor that the rats, imported from Hungary, had started to eat each other upon arrival in the Netherlands, Herzog insisted the plain white rats be dyed gray. In order to do so, according to 't Hart, the cages containing the rats needed to be submerged in boiling water for several seconds, causing another half of them to die. The surviving rats proceeded to lick themselves clean of the dye immediately, as Hart had predicted they would. Hart also implies sheep and horses that appear in the movie were treated very poorly, but does not specify this any further.

In 2010, 't Hart talked in the TV program Zomergasten about his involvement as expert for rats in Nosferatu. According to 't Hart, Herzog ordered 12,000 white rats from Hungary to the Netherlands, where they were to be used for a pest scene. The transport lasted three days, during which the rats were not fed nor soaked; therefore, they began to devour each other. After their arrival, Herzog decided to color them black. For this process, the animals were put into boiling water, whereby half of them died. 't Hart then withdrew from the project. In the TV program, he called the process "immoral".
http://a-nice-place-to-live.blogspot...-in-films.html

[Stavros]

I don't understand the concept, and have never seen a vampire film that either made sense or was in any way entertaining, and that includes Herzog's attempt, even though the photography is outstanding. This frees my time to spend with proper films that reward repeated viewing.