The Vampire metaphor...from review new bio of Schreck, first film vampire

[Mark Kohut]

One recalled how he lived in "a remote and strange world" and would spend hours walking through dense, dark forests.
  "Nosferatu" helped propel Murnau to a brief but successful Hollywood career, but Schreck faded from the limelight.
  The haunting film, which critics later saw as a metaphor for the collective trauma Germany suffered after defeat in World War One, changed the names of Bram Stoker's characters because the filmmakers failed to get permission to adapt his novel.

       
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