[Daemonia]

My favourite vampire film is probably Dracula Has Risen from the Grave. But the vampire movie that fascinates me the most and keeps drawing me back is Werner Herzog's Nosferatu - The Vampyre. It just seems so....authentic. There's a real sense of death and decay and Kinski is fantastic as the almost vermin-like vampire. The film boasts an incredibly claustrophobic and yet expansive score by Popol Vuh that suits the film perfectly - and when Tsintskaro is played over the rat plague it creates a haunting beauity belying the madness and violence onscreen (a trick Ortolani also used for Cannibal Holocaust).

So, if you've not seen Herzog's Nosferatu, I urge you to do so. It's melancholic, haunting, beautiful - and yet decadent and frightening. IMO it's a minor masterpiece.