Hello and welcome to Harry and I's discussion of the recently released film Nosferatu.

This was directed by Robert Eggers, who is one of our favorite directors, I think it's safe to say.

Certainly my favorite director of the moment.

I would say the same thing, because I think Stanley Kubrick, you know, always be number one for me.

Yeah, and David Lynch is my favorite overall, but he's not really

releasing anything these days. There's always rumors spreading that he's about to do something with

Netflix, or maybe he's going to carry on Twin Peaks in some esoteric and roundabout way, but the man's

nearing his 80s now, and he's living in L.A., which is just burned down. So, you know, best wishes to him.

Stay safe. Stay safe. I don't think anything's going to be coming from him any time soon.

I'd love to be proven wrong, though. Yes. So, Nosferatu, obviously, is something that is not

unfamiliar to most people. Most people are familiar with the name,

which is a made-up name of course, and

this of course is a thing that was inspired by Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Heavily inspired. Some might say his widow.

Yeah, his widow might even argue, which she did, that it was a complete rip-off.

And of course, the original film was ordered by the courts to be destroyed because it was so similar to the original.

And this was released in, what, 1922, wasn't it?

Yeah, the original was 1922.

It was some production company in Germany that only released one film, which was

Nosferatu. And the reason that they ordered it to be destroyed was by the time that they

were making the, she was making the court order against them. They had no money. They were

bankrupt, so they couldn't defend themselves in court. Well, what I understand of it, obviously it was a long time ago and it also doesn't matter,

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