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Shadow of the Vampire

Luxembourg, United States, United Kingdom

2000

92 Min
Color, Black and White
2.35:1
German, English
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DIR E. Elias Merhige

EXEC Paul Brooks, Alan Howden

PROD Nicolas Cage, Jeff Levine, Orian Williams

SCR Steven Katz

DP Lou Bogue

CAST John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier, Cary Elwes, Catherine McCormack, Eddie Izzard, Aden Gillett, Nicholas Elliott, Ronan Vibert, Sophie Langevin, Myriam Muller

ED Chris Wyatt

PROD DES Assheton Gorton

MUSIC Dan Jones

Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs), London (Film on the Square), Telluride, Toronto (Special Presentation)

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E. Elias Merhige

Edmund Elias Merhige, known as E. Elias Merhige, (born June 14th, 1964) is an American film director born in Brooklyn.

Merhige is best known to mainstream audiences for the 2000 film Shadow of the Vampire, and to underground audiences for the cult-classic 1991 film Begotten.

As he says in his audio commentary to the Shadow of the Vampire DVD, Merhige views cinema as the only meaningful art form of the present era. He regards literature and drama as once-needed forms which are past their time and which have been superseded by film. He is also very interested in the occult and the paranormal, and images and themes derived from these traditions suffuse his films.

Merhige currently lives in Los Angeles, California. —Wikipedia 

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Zachary George Najarian-Najafi

27Mar12

Murnau is one of my favorite directors, and Nosferatu one of my favorite films. Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire is both a loving tribute to Murnau's classic and a great film in its own right. The film turns between comedy and terror, but never falls into the realm of camp or parody. Merhige asks us to take his work seriously and we are able to do so. And the performances! Max Schreck is loveable and terrifying!

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meancreek

26Mar12

The film itself is very standard but Willem Dafoe's performance is just extraordinary.

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Kirby

24Mar12

I think I expected a bit too much from this film, but Dafoe and the make-up still make this worthwhile.

MegaMeg

21Dec11

Hey Eddie Izzard plus Nosferatu? I'm diggin it.

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By Johnny DuBiel on November 16, 2009

An outstanding concept that isn’t executed quite right. Out of the countless vampire themed films to emerge this past decade, this is one of the more original. Mehrige does a commendable job of maintaining…  read review

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