Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), January 26th, 2001
If Bram Stoker's estate had been more cooperative, German silent film actor Max Schreck could have become the most famous player ever to suck a jugular, and Bela Lugosi might have remained a minor Hungarian heartthrob.
The "Dracula" author's agents refused to sell film rights to legendary director F.W. Murnau ("Sunrise," "Tabu"), so he created an alternative vampire legend for his uncanny 1921 feature, "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror." The obscure Schreck gave an uncanny performance as Count Orlock, a nightmare creature poised between bloodlust and decay, and returned to obscurity.
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