The Castles Used in 'Nosferatu' Have Their Own Vampiric Histories

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Show of hands: does anybody else want to live in Count Orlok's castle? Surely it can't be just me, as I don't know how you can't be pulled in by the mystique of his grand catacomb of a home. Robert Eggers was very smart in his choice of castles to "play" Orlok's domicile, as he chose two separate castles for the exterior and interior shots, respectively, and both castles have close ties to important pieces of vampiric lore. The exterior castle is connected to a real-world figure who's vital to vampire history, while the interior castle has a much more direct link to a previous version of Nosferatu, that being Werner Herzog's 1979 masterpiece Nosferatu the Vampyre.

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